The Israeli military said on Monday it carried out a targeted airstrike in Beirut and successfully eliminated a Hezbollah’s top leader.
Loud explosions rocked the capital on Monday night as Lebanese state media reported new airstrikes in the southern suburbs. The strikes came after the Israeli military announced it had struck over 70 Hezbollah targets.
The operation in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh follows a weekend of massive air offensives across Lebanon.
This was reported by the Lebanese National Press Agency “enemy warplanes launch new raids on southern suburbs”.
Meanwhile, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad said on Monday that its commander in Lebanon had been killed in Israeli airstrikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
The Quds Brigades said in a statement that Adham Adnan al-Othman, head of the armed wing in Lebanon, was killed “as a result of the treacherous Zionist aggression that targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut at dawn on Monday.”
PIJ is an ally of both Hamas and Hezbollah.
The conflict in the Middle East is expanding
The Middle East The conflict escalated into a wider regional war on Monday as a joint US-Israeli offensive against Iran intensified.
After a weekend of heavy bombing that resulted in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran and its regional proxies launched massive retaliatory attacks. These counterattacks targeted Israel, neighboring Gulf states, and critical global energy infrastructure.
The scale of the escalation, combined with the absence of a clear retreat strategy, created the framework for a protracted conflict with devastating global consequences.
Historically stable regional hubs like Dubai have come under direct fire, while hundreds of thousands of international travelers remain stranded worldwide due to massive airspace closures.
How global markets reacted to volatility, oil prices has soared, and several US allies have pledged military support to intercept incoming Iranian drones and ballistic missiles.
president of the usa Donald Trump he stated that active operations were expected to continue for four to five weeks, although he emphasized readiness to extend the campaign indefinitely.
For years, Tehran has vowed that any direct attack would trigger an all-out war that would target Arab states in the Persian Gulf and disrupt oil flows essential to the global economy.
The chaotic nature of the conflict was underlined by a significant incident in Kuwait. The U.S. military says Kuwaiti air defenses accidentally shot down three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles during a frantic attempt to intercept an Iranian attack.
As several airstrikes hit Iran’s capital Tehran, top security official Ali Larijani promised X: “We will not negotiate with the United States.”
