Israeli Air Attack Kills 14 People In Lebanon, One That Killed High Military Commander Hezbollah

JAKARTA - After the attack of the pager explosion and walkie-talkie for two consecutive days in Lebanon, Israel immediately carried out airstrikes that killed at least 14 people and injured 66 others on the outskirts of southern Beirut, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

In a statement, the ministry said hospitals had so far received 66 injured, including nine people in critical condition.

Launching ANTARA, Saturday, September 21, the Lebanese National News Agency officially said the attack hit an apartment in one of the residential buildings in the Jamous area in the southern part of the suburbs.

Ambulances and civilian defense teams rushed to the area and took several injured victims to the hospital.

Following the airstrike, a senior Israeli official told Israeli Army Radio that the target of the attack was Ibrahim Aqil, a top military commander of the Lebanese group Hezbollah.

Later, the Zionist army claimed to have killed Aqil, along with a number of senior commanders from the Radwan Troops who were elite forces of the group.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said the attack "proves again that Israel does not respect any human, legal, or moral considerations, and is doing what appears to be genocide."

According to Anadolu correspondents on the ground, the Israeli attack badly damaged various buildings in southern Beirut.

Hezbollah has not commented on the airstrikes, which have taken place amid rising cross-border wars with Israel since the start of the deadly Tel Aviv war in the Gaza Strip.

Nearly 41,300 people, mostly women and children, died in Gaza following a cross-border attack by the Palestinian Hamas group on October 7, 2023.