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Lebanon raises toll to 29 dead in central Beirut strike said to target top Hezbollah commander
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FILE: People gather as rescuers sift through the rubble of a leveled building, following an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted Beirut's Basta neighborhood on November 23, 2024.(Fadel Itani/AFP)
Lebanon’s health ministry says a large-scale Israeli airstrike on a central Beirut building yesterday killed at least 29 people, updating an earlier toll.
“The Israeli enemy strike on Basta al-Fawqa in Beirut killed, in an updated but still not final toll, 29 people and wounded 67 others,” the ministry says in a statement.
“Rubble is still being removed” from the strike site, it adds.
The target of the strike was top Hezbollah commander Muhammad Haydar, according to an Israeli defense source cited by Hebrew media.
The IDF has not commented on the matter.
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