The incident reportedly took place on Jerusalem Street in the city next to a light rail train station and police have suspected a terror attack. This came as Israel is locked in a conflict with the Hezbollah militant group in neighbouring Lebanon that has raised worries over an all-out war.
The Israeli military on Tuesday said it had begun a "limited, localised" operation against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, opening a new front in its war against the Lebanese militant group.
Israel said it bombed Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday in response to missile fire by the Iran-aligned militants at Israel over the past two days, marking another front in fighting in the Middle East.
UNSC 1701 ended the month-long 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel and called for a full Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon and that the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers be the only armed force south of the Litani River.
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) has also issued a statement, confirming the death of the senior Hamas leader.
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Hezbollah's deputy leader vowed to continue fighting Israel and said the militant group was prepared for a long war after much of its top command was wiped out, including its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Israel-Hezbollah Conflict: US President Joe Biden said that he believes an all-out war in the Middle East must be avoided and stressed that he would speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the subject. “It has to be”, Biden told reporters as he boarded Air Force One for Washington."
Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah chief, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital Beirut on September 27. Reports claimed that his body has been recovered from the site where the military conducted the precise attacks.
Israel continued its air raids in Lebanon on Sunday in which several people were killed while hundreds of others were injured.
Joe Biden had recently backed the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah by Israel in an airstrike and said that his killing "is a measure of justice for his many victims".
What will be Israel's next target after killing Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah? Just thinking about this has made Israel's opponents anxious and nervous. Israel has made it clear that the enemy, wherever they may be, in whichever country, cannot escape Israel's claws.
Israeli airstrikes have killed several top Hezbollah commanders, including its leader Hassan Nasrallah, as well as senior officials like Ibrahim Aqil and Nabil Kaouk, intensifying the unrest in the Middle East.
In Syria, 37 militants affiliated with the extremist Islamic State group and an al-Qaeda-linked group were killed in two strikes, the United States military said Sunday. Two of the dead were senior militants, it said.
The Israeli military said Sunday that it killed another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike as the Lebanese militant group was reeling from a string of devastating blows and the killing of its overall leader.
The major setback to Hezbollah came just two days after Israel eliminated its chief Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike in Beirut on Friday.
Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut. Hezbollah, on Saturday, confirmed his death. The group said Nasrallah “has joined his fellow martyrs”.
Safieddine's family ties and a physical resemblance to Nasrallah, as well as his religious status as a descendant of Mohammed, would all count in his favour. He has also been vocal in his criticism of US policy.
Hassan Khalil Yassin, according to the IDF, headed a unit in Hezbollah’s intelligence division that was tasked with locating Israeli military and civilian sites in Israel to be targeted.
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