Israel attacks Lebanon: Israeli army claims Hezbollah hit about 120 targets in recent attacks

“Israel carried out an airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut,” said a Lebanese official, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported a “brutal airstrike by Israeli warplanes,” adding that ambulances had arrived in the area of ​​Beirut’s southern suburbs.

The witness said the rocket hit the building, which immediately collapsed.

The latest attack came days after the group’s powerful leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a similar strike, sending tensions soaring amid intense Israeli attacks on the country’s eastern, southern and southern Beirut.

The Israeli military said Sunday evening that it “recently” hit dozens more Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in a new barrage as frequent airstrikes continue on the border.

“During intelligence strikes, (the Air Force) struck approximately 120 Hezbollah terrorist targets in southern Lebanon and deep within Lebanese territory,” the military statement said, adding that the targets included Hezbollah infrastructure and “significant headquarters used by various Hezbollah units.”

The Israeli military said it attacked several Houthi rebel targets in Yemen using dozens of aircraft.

“In today’s large-scale air operation, dozens of Air Force aircraft, including fighters, refueling aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft, attacked military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the Ras Issa and Hodeida areas of Yemen,” military spokesman Captain David Avraham said in a statement to AFP .

The Israeli military said the strike that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah this week in Beirut also “eliminated” more than 20 other members of the Lebanese armed group.

“More than 20 other terrorists of various ranks who were present in the underground headquarters in Beirut, located under civilian buildings, and managed Hezbollah’s terrorist operations against the State of Israel have also been eliminated,” the military said in a statement, naming some of them.

A separate statement later said it had hit about 45 Hezbollah targets in the Kafra area of ​​southern Lebanon. The attacked targets included weapons warehouses and infrastructure facilities belonging to the group, he added.

The body of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah has been found

CNN reported, citing a Lebanese security source, that the body of former Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was found in the wreckage of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. The report concluded that the body was intact.

Another source said that there were no visible wounds on Nasrallah’s body and that the cause of death was probably blunt trauma caused by the force of the explosion.

On Friday, Hezbollah confirmed Nasrallah’s death after the Israeli military said he was killed in an airstrike on the southern outskirts of Beirut, the Iran-backed group’s main stronghold.

Some Israelis celebrated his killing, while in Lebanon the disbelief of his supporters gave way to anguished mourning. Across the region, leaders condemned the killing and some Hezbollah allies vowed revenge, stoking fear of more violence in the Middle East after nearly a year of war in Gaza.

“Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah … joined his great, immortal comrades-martyrs whom he led for some 30 years,” Hezbollah said in a statement.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel has “settled the score” for killing Israelis and citizens of other countries, including Americans.

He said that while Nasrallah was alive, he could “quickly restore the capabilities we lost before Hezbollah” in a series of recent operations.

“So I gave the order – and Nasrallah is no longer with us,” he said, adding that his country was on the verge of “what appears to be a historic turning point” in the fight against its enemies.

Iran, which arms and finances Hezbollah, said a senior member of the Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed in the same attack. A source close to Hezbollah said the group’s top commander in southern Lebanon, Ali Karake, was also killed.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that the killing in Lebanon of a senior Revolutionary Guard general during an Israeli strike along with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah “will not remain unanswered.”

“This terrible crime of the aggressor, the Zionist regime, will not remain unanswered, and the diplomatic apparatus will also use all its political, diplomatic, legal and international possibilities to pursue the criminals and their supporters,” he said in a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Sunday that his country could see the largest wave of displacement in history as a result of intense Israeli airstrikes.

“This is the largest displacement movement that could have happened… in Lebanon,” Mikati told reporters, after saying up to a million people could be displaced by Israeli attacks.

The Israeli military said Sunday that it had killed a senior Hezbollah official in an airstrike on the outskirts of Beirut a day earlier as it continued to attack the Lebanese armed group.

The military said Nabil Qaouq, a member of Hezbollah’s central council, was “struck and eliminated” on Saturday, just a day after the group’s head, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in a similar strike.

The Israeli military said on Sunday it had carried out attacks on “dozens” of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, two days after the group’s head, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an airstrike.

The Israel Defense Forces “have attacked dozens of terrorist targets on Lebanese territory over the past few hours,” the army said in a statement to Telegram.

Iran called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Saturday in protest over the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, according to a letter to the council sent to AFP.

In his letter, Iran’s UN envoy Amir Saeid Iravani called on the council to “take immediate and decisive action to stop ongoing Israeli aggression and prevent… the region from being drawn into a full-scale war.”

US President Joe Biden called for a ceasefire on Saturday following Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon – part of a prolonged bombing campaign against strongholds of the Iran-backed militant group.

“It’s time for a ceasefire,” Biden said in response to a reporter’s question whether an Israeli ground invasion was inevitable.

Lebanon reported that 33 people were killed and 195 others injured in Israeli attacks on Saturday.

“Israeli aggression against regions of Lebanon today resulted in the deaths of 33 people and the wounding of 195 people,” the country’s health ministry said in a statement issued on the sixth day of Israel’s bombing campaign against strongholds of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.