Israel has escalated its strikes on Hezbollah targets this week, with estimates that 180,000 civilians have been displaced in both countries
Emergency workers excavate rubble at the site of an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut on Monday. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP
. Israel’s political and military leadership said the attacks are intended to destroy Hezbollah’s capabilities and prepare for a potential ground invasion.has fired rockets and missiles into Israel, and increasingly its strongholds in southern Beirut and the Bekaa valley, where Israel claims the group stores thousands of rockets.largely claims to have intercepted. A missile attack on Tel Aviv that was stopped by air defences represented its deepest attack yet into Israel.
The Israeli airstrikes on Monday were by far the most deadly of the period since then and killed 558 people.Since the exchanges began, Hezbollah has fired an estimated 80,00 rockets at northern Israel and also hit military bases with drones. Israel had before Monday conducted air and artillery strikes against southern Lebanon and Hezbollah targets on a much smaller scale.
with approximately 70,000 people displaced in northern Israel. Israel has said the return of these people to their communities is a war aim. The extent of devastation in southern Lebanon this week is not fully known. Satellite images from the Bekaa valley have shown what appears to be smoke coming from areas in the villages that Israel has been targeting.Israel has also carried out strikes it says are targeting Hezbollah commanders. Many of these have been in Beirut, but also in southern Lebanon and Syria. On Thursday, Israel said a strike had killed a Hezbollah drone commander, Mohammed Hussein Surour.
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