Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that his country’s goals are clear and that the actions speak for themselves, his first statement since an airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
“Our goals are clear, and our actions speak for themselves,” the Prime Minister’s Office announced on the X social network.
Netanyahu did not provide details on the attack on the southern suburb of Beirut, also known as Dahieh, a Hezbollah stronghold.
Lebanon’s health ministry said the number of people killed in Friday’s Israeli attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut rose to 14, while 66 people were injured, nine of whom were in critical condition.
The Israeli military claims to have killed Ibrahim Aqil, who it said was Hezbollah’s chief of operations and de facto commander of the Radwan forces, in a drone strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, 37 people were killed and more than 3,250 injured in a series of pager and walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon.
The Lebanese government and Hezbollah accused Israel of carrying out the attack. Hezbollah has vowed revenge, and Israel has not commented on the allegations.
The attacks sparked an escalation in Israel’s cross-border war with Hezbollah, which began after Israel launched a deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 41,300 people, mostly women and children, AA writes.
