A security source told Reuters that the Israeli army launched an air strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday evening, targeting Ali Karaki, the third man in Hezbollah.
The Israeli military said it carried out a targeted strike in Beirut but did not elaborate on the targets, while in an earlier statement it said it had bombed about 800 targets linked to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley on Monday.
“Among the targets struck were buildings where Hezbollah was hiding rockets, missiles, launch pads, drones and additional terrorist infrastructure,” the army said in a statement.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said the Israeli military was “crushing” Hezbollah’s infrastructure built over decades in today’s strikes in Lebanon, and that the terror group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah was now alone.
“In recent days, we have demolished what Hezbollah built over 20 years,” the defense minister’s office was quoted as saying by the Times of Israel. “Nasrallah is left alone, entire units of the Radwan Force are no longer operational, and tens of thousands of rockets have been destroyed.”
