Beirut:
Lebanese state media reported on Thursday that three Israeli airstrikes hit Hezbollah’s southern Beirut headquarters. The latest airstrike follows an intense night of bombing.
“Enemy aircraft launched three attacks on the southern outskirts (of Beirut),” the state news agency (NNA) reported.
A source close to the group told AFP that the airstrike “targeted a building housing Hezbollah’s media office,” which had “already been evacuated.”
Israel announced this week that its forces had launched “ground assaults” on parts of southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, after days of heavy shelling of areas across the country where the group holds sway.
After nearly a year of low-intensity cross-border fighting, Israel has shifted its operational focus from Gaza to Lebanon. Heavy bombing in Lebanon has killed more than 1,000 people and forced hundreds of thousands to flee.
Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week in a stronghold south of Beirut, a densely populated area, before residents fled the violence.
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