Hezbollah said it had fired dozens of missiles at an airbase southeast of Haifa in retaliation for a series of Israeli attacks in Lebanon last week that killed dozens of people. Reports.
Israeli attacks on Hezbollah included a missile attack on Beirut on Friday, raising the death toll to at least 37, the Associated Press reported. ReportedThose allegedly killed include a senior Hezbollah leader, as well as women and children.
According to The New York Times, the Israeli military said on Sunday that about 10 shells had been fired from Lebanon into Israel, most of which were intercepted. According to the Associated Press, Israel's emergency medical services reported that a man had “suffered minor injuries” from shrapnel from an intercepted missile in a village near Galilee.
Early Saturday, Health Minister Firas Abiad said said Thirty-one people, including seven women and three children, were killed in Friday's attack in southern Beirut, he said at a press conference, adding that at least 68 people were injured, with around 15 still recovering in hospital, two in critical condition.
The attack killed Ibrahim Akil, head of Hezbollah's operational forces and commander of the elite special forces Radwan Unit, according to the Israeli military. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) added that other senior commanders of the Radwan Unit were also killed.
Israeli military spokesman Maj. Gen. Daniel Hagari said Akil and other Radwan commanders “hidden in the basement of a residential building in the center of the Dahiyeh district, using civilians as human shields.”
