BEIRUT, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and 32 others injured on Tuesday when an Israeli airstrike targeted a residential building in the Jnah area in Lebanon's capital Beirut earlier in the day, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

The Israeli airstrike was aimed at Muhammad Jaafar Kassir, head of Hezbollah's Unit 4400, which is tasked with delivering weapons from Iran and its proxies to Lebanon, al-Jadeed local TV channel reported.

The fate of Kassir is still unknown, and the identities of the slain have not been confirmed.

TV footage showed smoke rising from the building near al-Zahraa Hospital in Beirut. Civil defense teams have rushed to the area to put out a fire caused by the strike and remove the rubble.

Israel has intensified its strikes on Beirut and its suburbs recently to target Hezbollah officials and facilities.

Hezbollah and the Israeli army have been exchanging fire across the Lebanon-Israel border since Oct. 8, 2023, when the Lebanon-based Shiite group fired rockets at Israel in support of its ally Hamas in the Gaza Strip, prompting retaliatory fire and airstrikes from Israel in southeastern Lebanon. Enditem

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