12 people were killed in an Israeli air attack on Beirut

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health reported that at least 12 people were killed and 66 injured in an Israeli airstrike in one of the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut.

The National News Agency (NNA) reported that five children were among the victims of Friday’s attack on a building on Jamous Street.

The agency reported that the F-35 aircraft hit the residential area with two strikes.

The Israeli military said it carried out a “targeted strike” in the Lebanese capital, claiming to have killed Hezbollah’s top commander Ibrahim Akil and other top commanders of the Radwan special forces unit. Hezbollah has not confirmed whether Aqeel was killed.

The Israeli attack is the second in two months that Israel has targeted a Hezbollah military commander in Beirut.

In July, an Israeli airstrike killed the group’s top military commander, Fouad Shukr.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said the attack “proves once again that the enemy does not value any human, legal or moral consideration.”

Samvel Mkhitaryan