Israel launched airstrikes on Beirut for the first time since agreeing to the ceasefire with Lebanon in mid-April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the airstrikes in a joint statement on Wednesday, saying they targeted a senior Hezbollah official whose force had launched rockets at Israeli communities and targeted Israeli soldiers.
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“The IDF has just struck in Beirut the commander of the Radwan Force in the Hezbollah terror organization to eliminate him,” Netanyahu and Katz said in the statement.
Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorist group that resides in Lebanon, reignited their conflict after Hezbollah launched strikes at Israel over the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Feb. 28 that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Israel and Lebanon first agreed to an initial 10-day ceasefire on April 16, days after President Donald Trump urged Netanyahu to slow strikes against Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut.
On April 23,
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