Israel has attacked Hezbollah-linked targets in Lebanon's capital Beirut, the country's military said in a statement. The information is confirmed to AFP by Lebanese security sources.
According to Reuters, a thick cloud of smoke rises over the city after the attack. According to the news agency, the target of the attack is a high-ranking leader within Hezbollah.
Sources within the terrorist-classified organization tell AFP that a leader of one of the militia's elite units was killed in the attack.
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News agency: Five dead in the attack - all children
Five people have died in an Israeli attack on Beirut on Friday, according to Lebanon's state news agency. According to the news agency, all those killed are children.
Hezbollah's television channel Al Mawa states that at least one person was killed and 14 injured, including several children.
Israel's military confirms the attack on targets in Beirut but does not comment further.
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Hezbollah fires waves of rockets at northern Israel
Hezbollah has fired at least 150 rockets in three waves against military and civilian targets in northern Israel, the Times of Israel and Lebanese L'Orient Today write in their live reports. It is confirmed by both Hezbollah and the Israeli army IDF.
Several rockets have struck the Israeli city of Safed, without causing any major damage. In the border village of Metula, several houses have been destroyed and a woman slightly injured, according to Haaretz. Other impacts have caused fires in the Yehudiya nature reserve in the Golan Heights, the fire brigade says.
Israel, in turn, has shelled several villages in southern Lebanon, residents told L'Orient Today.
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The hostage's family criticizes the attacks: "Vicious circle"
The "Mission Impossible"-like detonations in Lebanon are like treating pain with pain. This is what American Adi Alexander, father of Edan Alexander, who is still being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas, told CNN.
Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attacks, but according to experts, everything points to Israel being behind them. According to Adi Alexander, this vicious cycle of violence must be stopped. He calls on US President Joe Biden to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop advancing positions in the war.
- That conversation must take place as soon as possible.
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Expert: Classic Mossad - cleaning up the evidence
There is no doubt that it is the Israeli intelligence service Mossad that is behind the detonations of communication equipment in Lebanon. This is what Israeli journalist and intelligence analyst Yossi Melman says to SVT Nyheter.
Israel has not yet commented on the explosions aimed at Hezbollah members, but Melman points to information that pagers, among other things, were allegedly sold via a shell company. The approach is classic for the Mossad, he says. First you start a business, which in some cases only consists of a desk and a telephone. In the next step, middlemen and agents are used to make purchases and "contact the enemy" - and win their trust by selling good equipment.
- Before starting the operation, they make sure to "clean away all fingerprints", anything that would point to the Mossad. So you can never know for sure that Mossad is behind it, says Yossi Melman.
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Location on the West Bank
Israeli soldiers threw bodies from rooftops
Israeli soldiers are seen scooping up and throwing down three lifeless bodies from different rooftops in the occupied West Bank town of Qabatiya in videos published by several media outlets. The events were also witnessed by AP's reporter and several other journalists, the news agency writes.
The videos, which have gone viral on social media, show "cruel and inhuman behavior," Palestinian National Initiative party leader Mustafa Barghouti told Al Jazeera.
The three men presumed dead have not been identified. At least seven Palestinians were reportedly killed during the Israeli raid in the city on Thursday.
The incident "does not follow the IDF's values and expectations of the soldiers," the Israeli military said in a statement, promising to investigate the incident.
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