At least seven killed in Israeli strikes in Beirut area, Lebanon says

Beirut: At ​least seven people were killed and 24 ​wounded in two Israeli strikes in the Beirut area, the Lebanese health ministry said on Wednesday, in attacks that hit ‌vehicles in ⁠Beirut's southern ⁠outskirts and in an area just south of the ​capital.The strikes are the latest in an escalating Israeli offensive in ​Lebanon which has killed at least 1,200 people and displaced 1.2 million others. Lebanon was pulled into ​the war in the Middle East ⁠when Hezbollah ‌fired rockets at Israel in solidarity ​with Tehran, ​two days after Iran was attacked ⁠by Israel and the United States. Hezbollah's attack ​prompted a new Israeli ground and air ​offensive.

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Israel's military said on Wednesday it carried out two separate strikes targeting a senior Hezbollah commander and another senior member of the Iran-aligned group in the Beirut area, but did not identify them ‌or say whether they had been killed.


Lebanon's state news agency NNA reported that one ​strike hit a ​vehicle in ⁠the Khaldeh area south of Beirut, killing two people and wounding three others. A second strike hit vehicles in ​Beirut's Jnah area, where the health ministry said at least five people were killed and 21 wounded.

There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah on the strikes.