Tel Aviv/Gaza/Beirut, Nov 9, (dpa/GNA) – The Israeli Air Force has attacked Hezbollah targets in southern Beirut overnight, the military said on Telegram on Saturday, while Israeli armed forces also carried out further attacks in the Gaza Strip.
The military said the air force hit “command centers and a weapons manufacturing site, along with additional terrorist infrastructure belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization” in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut considered to be a stronghold of the Iran-backed Lebanese militia.
According to the military, steps were taken prior to the strikes “to mitigate the risk of harming civilians.”
Over the course of the past day, the Israeli Air Force struck more than 50 targets in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, the military said in a separate post on Telegram.
Israeli ground troops “eliminated dozens of terrorists” and destroyed “a weapons storage facility” in the embattled Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to the post.
Israeli attacks were also reported from around the southern city of Rafah, where troops targeted militants and “terrorist infrastructure.”
Israel launched its campaign on Gaza, following the October 7 attacks on southern Israeli communities last year, which saw Hamas-led militants kill some 1,200 people, and abduct some 250 more to Gaza.
Some 43,000 Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing war so far, according to Hamas-controlled health authorities in Gaza.
Following almost a year of cross-border skirmishes with Hezbollah in Lebanon, which says it is acting out of solidarity with Palestinian extremist group Hamas in Gaza, Israel launched a ground operation in southern Lebanon in October.
GNA