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One day after Israel’s attack on a suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) elaborated on Saturday on the operation, saying 12 of the 16 killed were members of Hezbollah, the Shiite militia backed by Iran. The information could only be partially verified. The dead were a threat to both Israeli and Lebanese civilians, the IDF spokesman said. Among them was a man named Abu Hassan Samir, who was said to be the head of the training unit of the Radwan force, a Hezbollah elite unit. During Friday’s attack on the Hezbollah meeting, other commanders of this unit were also…

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