Lebanon’s health ministry says an Israeli strike south of Beirut today killed a woman and two children, after the IDF said it “precisely struck” the capital without identifying the target.
“The Israeli enemy strike on the town of Shuwayfat led to a final toll of three martyrs including a woman and her baby daughter, and a child of Syrian nationality, in addition to wounding 15 people including three children and five women,” the health ministry says in a statement.
An Israeli security source said earlier that the target of the strike on Beirut was Ali al-Husni, the head of the missile force in the Imam Hossein Division, an Iranian militia that operates alongside Hezbollah.
It was not immediately clear whether he had been killed in the strike. The IDF said it would provide further details later.
Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.
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