Israel claims it hit Hezbollah command center in Basta strike
The Israeli army on Monday said it had struck a Hezbollah command center in the downtown Beirut neighborhood of Basta in a deadly air strike at the weekend.
"The IDF (Israeli military) struck a Hezbollah command center," the army told AFP regarding the strike that the Lebanese health ministry said killed 29 people and wounded 67 on Saturday.
The strike hit a residential building in central Beirut's working-class Basta al-Fawqa district.
A Lebanese security source said the strike targeted a senior Hezbollah official, but a lawmaker from the group denied any of its officials were present.
The security official told AFP it was unclear whether the figure was killed.
Hezbollah lawmaker Amin Sherri denied any senior figure from the group was present at the time of the strike.
"There was no party figure in the two targeted buildings," the state-run National News Agency quoted him as telling reporters as he visited the site.
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Eight story building. Xinhua: The airstrike targeted a residential building on Fathallah Street in the Basta Fawka, a densely populated area, destroying an eight-story building and causing heavy damage to neighboring buildings, according to al-Jadeed.
