The Israeli occupation launches the largest bombing on Lebanon and claims to target Hashem Safi al-Din

Footage showed huge balls of flame rising from the targeted site as thick clouds of smoke rose.

Sirens went off in some cars in the suburbs of Beirut due to the loud noise caused by the raids.

This raid was preceded by a warning issued by the Israeli army spokesman, Avichay Adraee, to the residents of buildings in the Burj al-Barajneh neighborhood in the southern suburb to evacuate their homes, and he attached pictures of the area in question.

He said on his account on the X platform, "You are located near facilities and interests belonging to Hezbollah, and the IDF will act against them in the near future."

Earlier on Thursday evening, an Israeli airstrike targeted a warehouse adjacent to Beirut airport, a source close to the Lebanese Hezbollah told Agence France-Presse. The nature of the warehouse or its contents was not immediately clear.

On Wednesday night, the southern suburb of Beirut was subjected to 17 Israeli bombing operations by warplanes and warships from the sea, which included various neighborhoods, according to the Lebanese National News Agency.

An Israeli airstrike also targeted a "center for the Islamic Health Authority affiliated with Hezbollah" in the Al-Bashoura area in West Beirut, in a neighborhood not far from the government headquarters, during the night. The authority mourned seven of its paramedics who were killed in the raid.

Since mid-September, Israel has intensified its strikes against Hezbollah, and the bombing since September 23 has killed more than a thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes, according to official Lebanese figures.

Israel announced on Monday that it had begun a ground operation in southern Lebanon, which has not resulted in any significant progress on the ground so far.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated last Friday in raids that the Israeli army said targeted the party's "central headquarters" in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut last week.

Source: Al Jazeera