The Israeli army announced, at dawn on Tuesday, the start of a ground military operation in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli army said in a statement that it “began limited and targeted raids on Hezbollah targets in the border area in southern Lebanon.”
He added, “These targets are located in villages close to the border and pose a direct threat to population centers in northern Israel.”
A Pentagon official told Sky News Arabia that there are “open meetings of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces in the Pentagon to follow up on military developments in Lebanon and Israel.”
A Sky News Arabia correspondent in Beirut reported on Monday evening that there had been Israeli raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
According to our correspondent, Israeli warplanes targeted the areas of Al-Laylaki, Al-Marija, Al-Ruwais, and Bir Al-Abd in the southern suburb.
The Israeli raids in the southern suburbs targeted areas close to Beirut International Airport.
A Sky News Arabia correspondent in Lebanon reported today, Tuesday, that an Israeli bombing targeted the Ain al-Hilweh camp in Sidon, southern Lebanon.
Lebanese sources reported that an Israeli raid targeted the house of Major General Munir al-Maqdah, the official of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Lebanon, inside the camp, but he was not present at the site of the attack.
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