Lebanese state media reported on Wednesday a third wave of Israeli raids on Hezbollah鈥檚 south Beirut bastion in 24 hours, after the health ministry said another strike south of the capital killed six people.
鈥楨nemy aircraft targeted Beirut鈥檚 southern suburbs鈥�, the official National News Agency said, reporting six strikes.
AFPTV footage showed plumes of black smoke rising over the area following the strikes, about an hour after Israel鈥檚 army issued evacuation warnings.
People hastily drove away from the area following the evacuation calls, with residents firing gunshots in the air to warn civilians to flee, an AFP photographer said.
Earlier Wednesday, an Israeli strike on Aramoun south of Beirut killed six people, Lebanon鈥檚 health ministry said giving a preliminary toll for the attack on the densely-packed area which is located outside Hezbollah鈥檚 traditional strongholds.
鈥楤ody parts were recovered from the site and their identities are being verified,鈥� it added, after the NNA said the strike targeted a residential apartment at dawn.
An AFP photographer saw rescuers pulling bodies out of the rubble in Aramoun, where the four-storey building had partially collapsed.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian group allied with Hamas released a video on Wednesday of an Israeli hostage held in Gaza since the October 7 attack.
In the video, a bearded man identifying himself as Sasha Trupanov spoke in Hebrew about Israeli military operations in Lebanon, and called on Israelis to put pressure on the government to secure the release of hostages.
Trupanov, who stated in the video he was 28 and who recently turned 29, is a dual Russian-Israeli citizen who was abducted with his girlfriend, Sapir Cohen, from the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.
Trupanov鈥檚 mother, grandmother and girlfriend, also abducted during Hamas鈥檚 October 7 attack, were among those released during a week-long truce in November 2024 in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
Trupanov鈥檚 father, Vitaly, was killed during the October 7 attack, the deadliest in Israeli history.
鈥業 am relieved to see my son alive, but I am very worried to hear what he is saying,鈥� Trupanov鈥檚 mother, Lena, said in a statement published by the Hostage and Missing Families Forum campaign group.
鈥業 urge that every effort be made to secure his immediate release and that of all other hostages. They have no time left,鈥� she added.
This is the third video of Trupanov published by Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group allied with Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.
Qatar announced on Saturday it would end its mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas after months of fruitless negotiations.
When Hamas militants staged the October 7 attack, they took 251 hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were already dead.
Of those, 97 are still held hostage, while 34 are confirmed dead but their bodies remain in Gaza.
The war in Gaza erupted with the attack, which resulted in 1,206 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Israel鈥檚 retaliatory campaign has killed 43,665 people in Gaza, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory鈥檚 health ministry, which the UN considers reliable.