BEIRUT: Fighting raged on two fronts on Sunday as Israel targeted what it said was a Hezbollah "command centre" in the Lebanese capital. The strikes on Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the group of attempting to assassinate him by targeting his residence. Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) said Israel's strikes on Beirut hit a residential building in Haret Hreik near a mosque and a hospital.
The Israeli military said it hit the "command centre of Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters" and underground weapons facility in Beirut and that it killed three gunmen in other strikes. It later said about 70 projectiles fired from Lebanon crossed into Israel within a matter of minutes, and that it intercepted some of them.
In southern Lebanon, NNA later said Israeli strikes had targeted dozens of locations, including the city of Nabatiyeh for the third time this week. It also reported that an Israeli strike hit a centre for rescue workers affiliated with Hezbollah in Deir Al Zahrani in southern Lebanon, partially destroying it. Hezbollah itself said on Sunday it had fired various rocket barrages at Israel, including a "big rocket salvo" aimed at an Israeli military base east of the northern town of Safed. — AFP
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