JAKARTA - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said no terrorist is immune from Israeli attacks, following the country's success in killing one of the senior commanders of the elite forces of the Hezbollah group.
Netanyahu on Thursday claimed responsibility for the killing of a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut, Lebanon the day before.
"Last night (Wednesday), we eliminated, in the heart of Beirut, the commander of the Radwan Hezbollah forces," Netanyahu said, in a video released by his office, referring to the elite Hezbollah unit, reported Al Arabiya from AFP (7/5).
"I say to our enemies as clearly as possible: no terrorist is immune. Whoever threatens the State of Israel will die for his actions," he said.
The Israeli military says it has killed a senior Hezbollah commander in the first attack on the Lebanese capital Beirut in weeks.
The commander of the Radwan Force, a Hezbollah elite unit, Ahmad Ghaleb Ballout was killed in an airstrike that severely damaged a residential building on the southern outskirts of Beirut on Wednesday night, quoted by The National.
Lebanese official media said three missiles were fired at an apartment in the Haret Hreik area in Wednesday's attack. Roads out of the southern outskirts of Beirut were jammed as people left the city after the air raids.
Many families have just returned to their homes on the outskirts of the capital after a fragile ceasefire was imposed.
Despite the ceasefire, Israeli attacks and destruction throughout southern Lebanon are still ongoing.
The blast in the southern Beirut suburb, known as Dahieh, which was heavily damaged by the Israeli bombardment, was the latest violation of a fragile U.S.-mediated ceasefire in Lebanon that took effect last month.
Radwan's squad is a special operations unit of Hezbollah. Israel accuses its members of being responsible for firing into northern Israel and forces operating in Lebanon.
The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah - which has been in place since April 16 - continues to be regularly violated by both sides.
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