Death toll from Israeli strike on Beirut suburb rises to 31
Al Jazeera
Children, women among victims of attack which Israel says targeted members of Hezbollah’s Radwan special forces unit.
The death toll from an Israeli air attack in Beirut’s southern suburbs has risen to 31 people, including three children and seven women, Lebanon’s health minister says.
The strike, which wrecked two buildings in the Lebanese capital’s Dahiya district during rush hour on Friday, also injured 68 people, Health Minister Firass Abiad told a news conference on Saturday.
The three children killed were aged four, six and 10, according to Abiad, who also said two people were in critical condition.
Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamieh told Al Jazeera Arabic that the bombing of a residential building constituted a “war crime” and that Israel was “dragging the region into a war”.
He said 23 people were still missing under the rubble.