Posted on 04/01/2026 7:51:34 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan
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.
One of the strikes killed Hezbollah's top commander for Iraq military affairs, Yousef Hashem, a Lebanese security source and a Hezbollah source both told AFP.
The security source said "a senior Hezbollah official, who is the military chief for the Iraq file, named Youssef Hashem, was killed in the strike on the Jnah area in Beirut," adding that "he was in a meeting inside a tent near several vehicles".
A source close to Hezbollah confirmed the information, while the health ministry announced a final toll of seven people killed in the strike.
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.
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
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Has Haavaad or Tucker claimed 1000 children killed in a hospital yet?
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Not in his normal office, located under the maternity wing of a hospital?
He can’t get his camel down the stairs, and he was lonely.
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