Rescue efforts continue after the strike on a densely populated southern suburb of Beirut, which killed at least two women and two children. “There is a high possibility that there are still people under the rubble,” an employee from Haret Hreik municipality told The National. The target of the strike was senior Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukr, but civilian infrastructure was also damaged.

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