Israel Kills Hezbollah Chief in Beirut as Truce Wavers
Workers clean the rubble from the site of an Israeli air attack that targeted a residential building in the Dahieh suburbs of Beirut on Nov. 23.
Photographer: Ibrahim Amro/AFP/Getty ImagesIsrael said it killed Hezbollah’s military chief in a rare airstrike on Beirut as an almost year-old ceasefire deal with the Lebanese government wavers.
The Israeli army said the attack on Dahieh, on the southern outskirts of the capital, killed Hezbollah chief of general staff Abu Ali Al-Tabtabai, the militant group’s No. 2 after Secretary-General Naim Qassem.