The Israeli Defense Forces claimed to have carried out a “targeted airstrike” in Beirut Tuesday. According to Lebanese media, the strike killed at least one woman and was conducted by a drone launching three missiles. The airstrike was conducted in response to the death of 12 children from Israel’s Arabic-speaking Druze minority in a July 27 missile attack on the town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights. After the attack, Israel blamed Hezbollah. Hezbollah published a rare denial. “Hezbollah crossed the red line,” Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced...

Israel’s military carried out what it described as a “targeted strike” in Beirut on Tuesday, targeting the Hezbollah commander whom it said was responsible for the strike last weekend in the Golan Heights that killed a dozen children. “The IDF carried out a targeted strike in Beirut, on the commander responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams and the killing of numerous additional Israeli civilians,” the IDF said, though it did not mention whether the strike was successful and if there were any collateral casualties. Yoav Gallant,...

The Israel Defense Forces said it targeted “the commander responsible for the murder of the children” in the Golan town of Majdal Shams and “the killing of numerous additional Israeli civilians.” Israel does not intend more immediate strikes in retaliation for the weekend attack, two senior officials from the country said, speaking on condition of anonymity. TV footage out of Beirut shows plumes of smoke rising from buildings in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs, home to many supporters of Hezbollah. Lebanese state media report that a drone fired three...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “carried out a targeted strike” Tuesday in Lebanon against a Hezbollah commander behind the recent deaths of Israeli children, a press statement from the Israeli military read. The IDF said the commander was also behind “the killing of numerous additional Israeli civilians” in addition to the Majdal Shams incident in a post online. (RELATED: The Washington Post Faces Backlash For Misleading Front Page On Israeli Airstrikes) “At the moment, there are no changes in the Home Front Command defensive guidelines. If any changes will be...

‘The ball is now in Hezbollah’s court,’ an Israeli official says, indicating Israel expects an end to the ever-escalating reprisals. In a carefully aimed attack Tuesday, Israel’s military, defying Washington, has reportedly targeted at the heart of Beirut a top Hezbollah commander who is considered responsible for the missile attack that killed 12 children Saturday on the Golan Heights. “The ball is now in Hezbollah’s court,” an unidentified Israeli official told Israeli reporters, indicating that as far as Israel is concerned it expects an end to the ever-escalating reprisals. The...

WASHINGTON — The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday it carried out an airstrike in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, targeting a senior Hezbollah commander responsible for the weekend rocket attack that killed 12 children and teenagers in the Golan Heights. "The IDF carried out a targeted strike in Beirut, on the commander responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams and the killing of numerous additional Israeli civilians," the IDF said in a statement. "At the moment, there are no changes in the Home Front Command defensive...

The Israeli army said the commander was responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams. Israel has carried out an attack in the Lebanese capital, Beirut targeting a senior Hezbollah commander, the Israeli military said. A loud blast was heard and a plume of smoke could be seen rising above the southern suburbs – a stronghold of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah – just on Tuesday evening. Lebanon’s state-run national news agency said an Israeli air strike had targeted the area around Hezbollah’s Shura Council in the Haret Hreik...

Israel's military said it carried out a strike targeting a Hezbollah commander in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, in response to a deadly rocket attack on the occupied Golan Heights over the weekend. Footage posted on social media showed large plumes of smoke rising above a collapsed residential building in the capital's southern Haret Hreik neighbourhood, with several injured people receiving help and medical assistance from passersby. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the strike targeted an area near Hezbollah’s Shura Council.