India, Nov. 23 -- Israel on Sunday said it has killed senior Hezbollah militant Haytham Tabtabai in a strike on Beirut.

According to AFP, the strike took place in the Haret Hreik area in Beirut's southern suburbs, a densely populated area.

Lebanon's health ministry said that five people were killed in the strike and 28 were wounded. It did not give the identities of the people killed.

"ELIMINATED: Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah's Chief of General Staff, in the Beirut area," the Israel Defense Forces wrote in a post on X.

"Tabatabai, a veteran operative since the 1980s, commanded the Radwan Force, led Hezbollah operations in Syria, and entrenched its operational and combat capabilities," the IDF added.

An AFP correspondent at the sc...