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Hezbollah sources saying targeted commander survived attack
We are in the southern suburbs of Beirut just a few metres from where the building was hit in the attack. As you can imagine, the situation is quite tense.
Now, Hezbollah sources are saying that Muhsin Shukr has survived this assassination attempt earlier. Israeli messaging is that this was their promised response, their response to the rocket attack on Saturday in the town of Majdal Shams that killed civilians.
What will Hezbollah do? The very fact that there are reports that this high-ranking commander has survived could mean that there could be a different response. It could be a very different situation, for example, if he was killed.
This was in a densely populated area. And we’re getting reports that a woman was killed. So the dust needs to settle before we can give you all the details. But this was a military target, which means that Israel is trying to stay within the unwritten rules of engagement of their ongoing confrontation with Hezbollah.
Still, earlier today, a high-ranking Hezbollah source told us that no matter what the strike, no matter if it’s limited in nature, it will be considered an act of aggression, and that Hezbollah will respond.
So we are at a tipping point in this conflict and we still do not know the trajectory of this conflict.
Lebanon condemns Israeli attack
Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has on Tuesday that his government condemned the Israeli attack that hit the southern suburbs of the capital and planned to file a complaint to the United Nations.
He told the Reuters news agency he hoped any response by Hezbollah, whose heartland is in those southern suburbs, would not trigger an escalation.
State media in Lebanon: One killed in Israeli strike on Beirut
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) says that a female civilian was killed when Israel bombed a building in Haret Hreik, in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital.
“Sixty-eight civilians were injured, five of whom were critically injured, while the rest suffered moderate to minor injuries. Most of them were treated in emergency departments and were discharged from hospitals,” the NNA added.
The hospitals that treated the patients were named as “Bahman Hospital, Al-Sahel Hospital, Al-Rasoul Al-Aazam Hospital, Al-Zahraa Hospital, Al-Jeitaoui University Hospital”.
US was offering $5m for info on target of Israeli strike
The US State Department had been offering $5m for information on Muhsin Shukr, also known as Fuad Shukr, prior to Israel’s attack today.
Hezbollah sources say Shukr survived the attack, although his fate remains unclear.
The US, in a listing explaining the reward, described Shukr as a senior advisor on military affairs to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. It also said he “played a central role” in the 1983 bombing of a US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut that killed 241 US soldiers.
