The Israeli military said it carried out a strike in Beirut on Tuesday, July 30, that targeted a commander responsible for the killing of children in last week's rocket attack on the Golan Heights.
"The IDF (army) carried out a targeted strike in Beirut on the commander responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams and the killing of numerous additional Israeli civilians," the military said in a statement, referring to the Druze Arab town where Saturday's rocket attack killed 12 children.
A source close to Hezbollah said that one of the Islamist movement's military commanders had been targeted by an Israeli strike, in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Tuesday evening.
"Hezbollah crossed the red line," Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant wrote on X, minutes after the Israeli military said it had carried out the strike.
Earlier, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency had said "an enemy raid targeted near Hezbollah's Shura Council," the powerful Lebanese group's decision-making body in Beirut's Haret Hreik suburb.
An Agence France-Presse (AFP) photographer on the ground said the last floor of an eight-story building was hit and that ambulances had converged at the site of the strike.
Saturday's strike on the Druze Arab town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights has been blamed on Lebanon's Hezbollah by Israel and the United States, although the Iran-backed group has denied any connection to the attack. During a visit on Monday to Majdal Shams, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a "severe response," raising fears yet again that the Gaza war could spill over into a wider regional conflagration.