IDF targets Hezbollah commander in Beirut

The Israel Defense Forces carried out a “targeted attack” in Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah terrorist stronghold in south Beirut, the military announced.

The strike targeted a “military” commander of the Iranian-backed terrorist organization, a source in Jerusalem told Sky News Arabia.

The attack was reportedly conducted in the same area where Hashem Safieddine, a potential successor to Hezbollah’s slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, was targeted by the Israeli military on Thursday night.

Monday’s strike came shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened Cabinet ministers for an urgent security meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

Following the attack, air-raid sirens were activated in towns across northern Israel, warning of incoming missile and rocket fire from Lebanon. Some 60 projectiles were launched from across the border. No injuries were reported.

Hezbollah has attacked nearly every day since Oct. 8, firing thousands of rockets, missiles and drones at Israel, killing more than 40 people and causing widespread damage. Tens of thousands of Israeli civilians remain internally displaced due to the ongoing violence.

Hezbollah has launched more than 12,400 projectiles at Israeli territory over the past year, according to the most recent IDF figures.

Jerusalem has escalated attacks on Hezbollah since adding the return of evacuated Israeli civilians to the north as an official war goal on Sept. 17.

On Sept. 27, the Israeli Air Force dropped at least a dozen 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs on an underground Hezbollah compound in Dahiyeh, killing longtime Hezbollah terrorist leader Nasrallah.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant subsequently stressed that while Nasrallah’s death was “a very important step, it is not the final one.

“We will employ all the capabilities at our disposal, and if someone on the other side did not understand what those capabilities entail, we mean all capabilities,” Gallant warned on Sept. 30.