Tonight the targeted strike launched by the Israeli military on Hezbollah in Lebanon's capital

Beirut. Israel saying the strike killed several senior Hezbollah members including a top

commander suspected in a pair of 1983 bombings

that killed more than 300 Americans. Today's strike coming after those waves of

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Good evening and welcome everyone the M Mideast on tenterhooks tonight after Israel launched a targeted

air strike inside Lebanon that killed a top Hezbollah commander and at least 13 others according to state media.

Israel saying 10 commanders are among the dead.

Killed today, the man Israel identifies as the head of the Iran-backed militia group's operations.

And a figure the U.S. believes played a role in the deaths of more than 300 people in

the bombings of the American embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983.

His death coming as Hezbollah today unleashed waves of its own rockets towards

Northern Israel in apparent retaliation for those deadly attacks against Hezbollah

that employed electronic devices rigged with explosives.

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