Israeli military says strike in Beirut is retaliation for Golan Heights attack [Video]

An Israeli air strike targeted a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut’s southern suburbs late on Tuesday, in what the Israeli military said was retaliation for a cross-border rocket attack three days before that killed 12 children.

A loud blast was heard and a plume of smoke could be seen rising above the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital — a stronghold of the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah — at around 7:40 p.m. local time, a Reuters witness said.

The Israeli strike had targeted but failed to kill Hezbollah’s operations chief, two security sources told Reuters. 

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 neighbourhood of the capital.

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said his government condemned the Israeli strike and planned to file a complaint to the United Nations. He told Reuters he hoped any …