Israel strikes Beirut, kills three Palestinian leaders

 By: News Peddlers 

Beirut [Photo credit: Los Angeles Time]

As Israel intensified hostilities against Iran's regional supporters, a militant Palestinian organisation announced on Monday that three of its commanders had been slain in an Israeli assault on Beirut, the first such hit inside city boundaries.

The three leaders were slain, according to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in an attack that went after Beirut's Kola neighbourhood.

According to Reuters witnesses, the strike occurred on the upper floor of an apartment block located in the Kola neighbourhood of the capital of Lebanon.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond.

There are growing concerns that the conflict in the Middle East may spiral out of control and ensnare Iran and the United States, Israel's principal ally, as a result of Israel's frequent attacks on the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and the Houthi militia in Yemen.