The physique of Hezbollah’s navy commander Fuad Shukr was found in rubble after the Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Reuters cited two safety sources as saying.
Israel hit the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday, because it hysterically seeks to unfold the spiral of violence within the area. The dying toll from the airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut has risen to 5, Lebanon’s Health Ministry mentioned Wednesday.
Three girls and two youngsters have died and greater than 70 have been wounded within the Tuesday assault, the ministry mentioned.
The Israeli navy mentioned it had killed Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s most senior navy commander and the pinnacle of its strategic unit, within the assault.
The secretary-general of Lebanon’s High Relief Committee, General Mohammed Kheir, inspected the realm the place the strike passed off and promised that each one damages could be lined by the state, in keeping with the official NNA news company.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib mentioned current occasions in Lebanon and the area and methods to stop the growth of the struggle throughout his assembly with Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Head of U.N. Peacekeeping Operations.
“The military option pursued by the Israeli government aims to plunge the region into a spiral of war that will only bring destruction and devastation to everyone,” Bou Habib mentioned through the assembly, additionally attended by U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert.
Ensuring safety in southern Lebanon will solely occur via diplomatic means, a cease-fire, and full dedication to all related U.N. resolutions, particularly Resolution 1701, which stays the one option to forestall additional violence, dying, and devastation, he added.
U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 was supposed to resolve the 2006 Lebanon War with Israel. It requires a full cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from sure areas in Lebanon and calls on Hezbollah to retreat behind the Litani River, 30 kilometers from Lebanon’s border with Israel.
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