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Lebanon says death toll from Israeli strike on Hezbollah commanders rises to 45
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Members of Hezbollah carry the coffins of comrades who were killed in an Israeli strike a day earlier, during their funeral procession in the southern suburbs of Beirut on September 21, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
The death toll from an Israeli airstrike that targeted Hezbollah commanders in Beirut’s southern suburbs this week has risen to 45, Lebanon’s health ministry says.
“The number of dead has risen to 45 people,” a ministry statement says, updating an earlier toll of 37 from the Friday attack. It says “work continues to remove the rubble for the third day in a row” and that DNA sampling would be used to determine the identities of some of the bodies.
Hezbollah has confirmed that at least 16 of its members, including two of its most senior leaders, were killed in the strike while they were meeting in the basement of a Beirut apartment building.
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