Several Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, hours after Lebnaon’s Hezbollah said it fired on Israeli bases around the city of Haifa.
Columns of smoke rose over the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs, following a warning from the Israeli military for residents to evacuate many areas.
Further south, overnight Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling hit the flashpoint southern town of Khiam, some six kilometres from the border, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported early Sunday.
The bombardment came after Israel's military reported a "heavy rocket barrage" on Haifa late Saturday and said a synagogue was hit, wounding two civilians.
Israel's military chief said Saturday Hezbollah had already "paid a big price,” but Israel will keep fighting until tens of thousands of its residents displaced from the north can return safely.
Beirut's southern suburbs were veiled in smoke Sunday, following repeated Israeli bombardment a day earlier of the Hezbollah stronghold.
The Israeli military said aircraft had targeted "a weapons storage facility" and a Hezbollah "command center.”
Hezbollah fired around 80 projectiles at Israel on Saturday, the military said.
Israeli forces also shelled the area along the Litani River, which flows across southern Lebanon, NNA said Sunday.
The agency earlier reported strikes on the southern city of Tyre, including in a neighborhood near UNESCO-listed ancient ruins. Israel's military late Saturday said it had hit Hezbollah facilities in the Tyre area.
In Lebanon's east, the health ministry said an Israeli strike in the Bekaa Valley killed six people including three children.
Hezbollah said it fired a guided missile that set an Israeli tank ablaze in the southwest Lebanon village of Shamaa, about five kilometres from the border.
Late Saturday, Hezbollah said it had targeted five military bases including the Stella Maris naval base.
