Hezbollah<\/a> in the Bekaa valley. Two security sources told Reuters that senior Hezbollah leader Hussein Yaghi was killed in the attacks.<\/p>\nYaghi is the son of former Hezbollah MP Mohamed Yaghi, and his funeral is set to take place on Saturday, according to Hezbollah media.<\/p>\n
Local television footage from the scene of one of the strikes showed the targeted site appeared to be an apartment building. Emergency crews were seen firefighting and searching for survivors.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Friday another Israeli strike hit a Palestinian refugee camp in the port city of Sidon, killing two people.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military said it struck a \u201cHamas command centre\u201d in the Ain el-Hilweh camp. Hamas acknowledged that two of its members had been killed in the strike but said the claim it was a command centre was a \u201cflimsy pretext\u201d.<\/p>\n
It said the targeted building belonged to a joint security force made up of various Palestinian factions tasked with maintaining security in the camp.<\/p>\n
After 7 October 2023, Hezbollah began firing rockets from Lebanon into Israel in support of Hamas and the Palestinians.<\/p>\n
Israel responded with airstrikes and shelling. The low-level conflict escalated into full-scale war in September 2024, before being reined in by a US-brokered ceasefire two months later.<\/p>\n
Since then, Israel has accused Hezbollah of trying to rebuild and has carried out near-daily strikes in Lebanon that it says target militants and facilities. Hezbollah has claimed one strike against Israel since the ceasefire.<\/p>\n
The death toll from Friday\u2019s strikes was unusually high and comes at a moment of heightened tensions in the region with the US threatening to strike Iran \u2013 a backer of both Hezbollah and Hamas \u2013 if negotiations over Tehran\u2019s nuclear programme fail to produce a deal.<\/p>\n
During last year\u2019s Israel-Iran war, Hezbollah remained on the sidelines but many in Lebanon fear that the country will be pulled in should another war break out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 10 people have been killed and 24 wounded \u2013 including three children \u2013 in Israeli strikes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-302383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}