The Israeli military on Thursday said it struck around 30 targets in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a bastion of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, over the past 48 hours.
鈥極ver the past two days, approximately 30 terror targets were struck in the Dahieh area in Beirut. These strikes were a part of the IDF鈥檚 on-going efforts to dismantle and degrade Hezbollah鈥檚 military capabilities,鈥� the military said in a statement, weeks after it began on September 23 escalating air raids against the group.
Shortly before the strike, Israel had issued a warning to residents to evacuate their homes.
鈥榊ou are located near Hezbollah facilities and interests against which the Israeli military will operate in the near future,鈥� army spokesman Avichay Adraee said.
His post on X included a map identifying buildings in the Shouaifat al-Omrousiya and Ghobeiry areas.
Israel carried out two strikes on Ghobeiry and a large one on Shouaifat al-Omrousiya, which lies on the southern outskirts of Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Repeated Israeli air strikes on south Beirut have led to a mass exodus of civilians, although some return during the day to check on their homes and businesses.
NNA also reported heavy Israeli bombardment of the southern town of Bint Jbeil on Thursday.
Several blocks of flats in the town barely three kilometres from the Israeli border were destroyed by air strikes or shelling, it said.
Meanwhile, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday that at least 43,736 people have been killed in more than 13 months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants.
The toll includes 24 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry, which said 103,370 people have also been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war began when Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.
Earlier on Thursday, Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said at least 10 people were killed in 鈥榮everal air strikes鈥� by the Israeli army on the Palestinian territory.
The agency鈥檚 spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that 鈥榓round 30 people, all civilians鈥� were wounded in the strikes in Gaza City, the northern town of Jabalia and the southern city of Rafah.