Israel says targeted Hezbollah operative in Beirut strike

Israel’s military said Tuesday it carried out a strike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut targeting a Hezbollah operative, the second such strike since a November ceasefire.

The latest strike comes after rocket fire prompted Israel to bomb southern Beirut last week for the first time during a fragile four-month-old truce with the Tehran-backed Lebanese movement.

“The strike targeted a Hezbollah terrorist,” the Israeli military said in a joint statement with the domestic Shin Bet security agency.

The top two floors of a multi-storey building were destroyed by the strike in Hezbollah’s Dahieh stronghold, an Agence France-Presse photographer at the scene said, while panicked residents poured out of their homes.

At least three people were wounded and being helped by rescuers, the photographer said.