Israel pounds Lebanon in overnight airstrikes (Video)

Israel launched a series of airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut, Lebanon, in the early hours of this morning, November 7, 2024.

Military sources said the targets included Hezbollah command rooms and other military infrastructure.

Israeli army says the Hezbollah sites were located “in the heart of a civilian population,” adding the terror group of using civilians as shields.

It would be recalled that Israel had earlier served a notice for civilians to vacate the area.

Hezbollah militant group had issued a threat on Wednesday, November 6, that tens of thousands of its militants were ready to fight Israel, adding that the US election result would have no effect on the war in Lebanon.

The Iran-backed group’s leader also warned that nowhere in Israel would be “off-limits” to attacks, as the Israeli military said about 120 projectiles had been fired across the border into Israeli territory on Wednesday.

Israel and Hezbollah have been at war since late September, when the Israeli military decided to move its war focus from Gaza to securing its northern border with Lebanon.

Israel’s shift in military focus came after Hezbollah began launching low-intensity cross-border attacks on Israel last year, in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas following its October 7, 2023 attack.

Lebanon has lost about 2000 people to hostilities with Israel, according AFP using Lebanese health ministry figures.

“We have tens of thousands of trained resistance combatants” ready to fight, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said in a televised speech marking 40 days since his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a strike.

The address by Hezbollah was aired after Donald Trump’s victory in the US election was announced but had been recorded earlier.

See the footage of the airstrikes here.