Beirut, Oct 10 - The head of the intelligence unit of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement, Wafiq Safa, who was believed to have been the target of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut early Thursday, survived, a television station reported Al Mayadeen citing a Hezbollah source.
According to this source, "the attempt to kill Wafiq Safa failed; he survived".
TASS correspondent before reportedthat Israeli aircraft targeted two buildings in central Beirut that housed Hezbollah medical centres. Rescue operations continue in the Ras al-Nabaa and al-Nuweiri neighbourhoods. Firefighters managed to evacuate residents trapped on the upper floors of one of the buildings.
According to the latest figures from the Lebanese Ministry of Health, the attack left 22 dead and 117 injured.
On 23 September, Israel launched Operation Northern Arrows against the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah and carried out massive airstrikes against its military targets. The stated aim is to create safe conditions for the return of local residents to Israel's northern border areas. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a strike on Beirut on 27 September. The Israeli army announced the launch of a ground operation in the border areas of southern Lebanon in the early hours of 1 October.
Earlier, Palestinian Red Crescent teams intervened in 27 dead and 54 injured after the Israeli occupation army attacked the Rafida school, located near the headquarters of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Deir Al-Balah in the central district.
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