Israel said on Tuesday that it carried out a targeted strike in Beirut, Lebanon against the Hezbollah commander responsible for the rocket attack that struck a soccer field in northern Israel and killed 12 children and teenagers.
The strike marks the first significant operation by the Israel Defense Forces in retaliation for the deadly Hezbollah rocket attack on the village of Majdal Shams that occurred on Saturday. Israel and Lebanon have been trading lower-level fire for the past 10 months following Hamas’s Oct.