Lebanon's health ministry said that five people were killed in the strike and 28 were wounded.

Israel on Sunday said it has killed senior Hezbollah militant Haytham Tabtabai in a strike on Beirut.

According to AFP, the strike occurred in the densely populated Haret Hreik neighbourhood in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Lebanon's health ministry said that five people were killed in the strike and 28 were wounded. It did not give the identities of the people killed.

“ELIMINATED: Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s Chief of General Staff, in the Beirut area,” the Israel Defense Forces wrote in a post on X.

“Tabatabai, a veteran operative since the 1980s, commanded the Radwan Force, led Hezbollah operations in Syria, and entrenched its operational and combat capabilities,” the IDF added.

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