On Monday, there were reports of repeated Israeli attacks on Beirut's densely populated southern suburbs, including al-Dahiya.
The Israeli military stated earlier in a statement that they had launched a "targeted" attack in the area, which the military describes as a Hezbollah stronghold.
Over 30 cities and villages in the Lebanese district of Tyre were also attacked earlier in the day, according to the state-run Lebanese news agency NNA.
Israel also claimed to have hit over 120 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon "within an hour" – targets that are said to have belonged to, among others, Hezbollah's command unit Radwan.
Attack on southern Lebanon's coast
At the same time, Israel is warning that it will soon launch new attacks on southern Lebanon's coast, and has, following a situation assessment, declared four areas in northwestern Israel as "closed military zones" from 22:00 local time.
"Entry to this area is prohibited," a statement reads.
Three brigades are now part of Israel's ground offensive in the neighboring country to the north, since one brigade was added during the night to Monday. According to Israel, it is a "limited" invasion aimed at destroying Hezbollah's infrastructure in the border area with Israel.
Attack on border villages
This morning, more than 35 projectiles were fired from Lebanon towards Israel, according to the military.
This afternoon, Hezbollah stated that it had launched attacks on Israeli soldiers in two border villages in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah claims that it has ordered its fighters not to target Israeli forces near a peacekeeping UN base in the Lebanese border area Maroun al-Ras, according to a statement given to the Lebanese news agency al-Mayadeen on Monday.
In the statement, the Shia militia accuses Israel of trying to use peacekeeping forces as human shields.
Lebanese authorities simultaneously report that over 400,000 people have fled to Syria over the past two weeks. Over 300,000 of them are Syrians who have returned to the war-torn country.
