Israel said on Friday that its strike this week on a campus of Lebanon's public university killed a Hezbollah leader with expertise in making weapons.Lebanese state media said Thursday that two academics were killed in the strike, including a professor it named as Mortada Srour.
Israel's military said Srour was "employed as a chemistry lecturer at the Lebanese University in Beirut".
It also described him as "a leading figure and an expert in the field of weapons manufacturing within (Hezbollah)."
The targeted campus is located on the edge of Beirut's southern suburbs, an area under Hezbollah's sway, and was spared in the last war between the pro-Iran militant group and Israel.
