Lebanon’s state media reported a slew of Israeli air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, after the Israeli military posted evacuation calls online for parts of the Hezbollah bastion.
AFPTV footage showed smoke billowing above the area on Sunday evening, following earlier raids in the afternoon.
AFP journalists in the city and its outskirts heard loud explosions, with car alarms going off throughout one Beirut street.
“A series of violent strikes are targeting Haret Hreik, Bir al-Abed and Ghobeiri in the southern suburbs of Beirut,” the official National News Agency (NNA) reported.
Earlier in the day, it had reported two Israeli strikes on south Beirut, about an hour after the Israeli military issued warnings online.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in Sunday’s strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been largely emptied of their residents during the fighting.
The area has been repeatedly struck since September 23, when Israel intensified its air campaign also targeting Hezbollah bastions in Lebanon’s east and south.
It later sent in ground troops to southern Lebanon.
