Death toll from Israeli airstrike on Beirut suburb rises to 31 as Israel and Hezbollah trade fire

The death toll from an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb rose to 31, including seven women and three children, Lebanon’s health minister said on Saturday, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire.

Among those killed were Ibrahim Akil, who was in charge of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, and Ahmed Wahbi, another senior commander in the group’s military wing. Firas Abiad told reporters 68 people were also wounded of whom 15 remained in hospital, adding that search and rescue operations were still ongoing, with the number of casualties likely to rise. The rare strike hit an apartment block in a densely populated south Beirut neighborhood on Friday afternoon during rush hour as people returned home. It was the deadliest strike targeting the Lebanese capital since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. Akil, the main target of the strike, had been wanted by the U.S. for years for his alleged role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and in taking American and German hostages in Lebanon in the 1980s. He was under U.S. sanctions and in 2023, the U.S. State Department announced a reward of up to $7 million for information leading to his “identification, location, arrest, and/or conviction.”

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