Israel has bombed the Kola area of Beirut in its first attack on the Lebanese capital beyond the southern suburbs, killing three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Al Jazeera reported on Monday.

The PFLP, a Marxist and Arab nationalist group founded in 1967, confirmed three of its leaders were killed in Beirut.

They are Muhammad Abdel Aal, a member of the PFLP’s political bureau and the head of its military security department; Imad Odeh, a member of the PFLP’s military department and a military commander in Lebanon; and Abdul Rahman Abdel Aal, a “comrade martyr hero”.