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Israeli air attack on Beirut kills nine as cross-border fire intensifies

Israeli army says it killed top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil, but the Lebanese group has not confirmed his death.

Lebanon’s health ministry says at least nine people have been killed and 59 wounded in an Israeli air attack on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported that five children were among the casualties from the attack on a building in Jamous Street, southern Beirut, on Friday. The agency said that a F-35 jet hit the residential area with two attacks.

The Israeli military said it has carried out a “targeted strike” in the Lebanese capital, claiming to have killed top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil and other senior commanders of the Radwan special forces unit.

Hezbollah has not confirmed whether Aqil has been killed.

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