Jane Araf

It said it was targeting members of the militant group Jammah Islamiyah.

Village residents say those killed were civilians.

After the fall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad a year ago, Israel seized a former U.N.-established buffer zone between the two countries and territory beyond it in southern Syria.

For NPR News, I'm Jane Araf in Beirut.

With the two apartments that were hit, you can see they're pretty much completely destroyed.

This was also a residential area with shops on the bottom.

And there were at least two dozen others who were injured, including women and children.

Hezbollah has not yet said how it's going to respond, but an official on Sunday said this strike, in the middle of what is supposed to be a ceasefire, is a red line.

For NPR News, I'm Jane Araf in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

I'm outside the apartment building with the two apartments that were hit.

You can see they're

pretty much completely destroyed.

But this was also a residential area with shops on the bottom.

And there were at least two dozen others who were injured, including women and children.

Hezbollah has not yet said how it's going to respond.

But an official on Sunday said this strike in the middle of what is supposed to be a ceasefire is a red line.

Hezbollah announced that Haitham Ali Tabatabai was killed in an Israeli attack in Beirut's southern suburbs.

The group described him as one of the founders of resistance against Israel.

Israel has launched almost daily attacks in south Lebanon, despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreed a year ago.

This was Israel's first attack in months on Beirut.