Israel said early on Sunday it had carried out 'a series of targeted strikes' on southern suburbs close to the Lebanese capital.
Israel bombarded southern Beirut late on Saturday and early on Sunday, one day before it marks a year since the attacks orchestrated by Palestinian militant group Hamas that spiraled into a highly destructive war in Gaza and escalated tensions across Israel's northern border.
The simultaneous tensions between Israel and Hezbollah spiked in recent weeks, displacing hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the border. Israel said it was launching 'limited, localized and targeted ground raids' into southern Lebanon on October 1, in what it dubbed 'Operation Northern Arrows.
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