Israel says the militant group’s headquarters is located under residential buildings in Beirut suburb, which were hit.
Huge clouds of black smoke billowed into the sky over Beirut on Friday as Israel’s military said it had carried out a “precise strike” on the central headquarters of the militant group Hezbollah.
The series of powerful blasts in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, which shook apartment windows miles away, appeared among the largest such strikes since hostilities erupted between Israel and Hezbollah nearly a year ago.
Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah has escalated sharply over the last two weeks, including attacks using sabotaged communication devices, strikes aimed at senior commanders and hundreds of attacks on launch sites for rockets and missiles inside Lebanon.
