Israel launches strikes on southern Lebanon overnight
The IDF has said it launched a fresh wave of strikes on Lebanon overnight, targeting positions from which rockets were fired towards Israel.
In an update online, IDF officials said that “warplanes targeted dozens of sites” in several areas in southern Lebanon.
The statement said that secondary explosions were observed during the strikes “indicating the presence of weapons stored in the buildings.” The Guardian was unable to verify this.
Monday saw some of the heaviest cross-border fire exchange in almost a year. Israel says it has started shifting its focus north to Hezbollah, which has been firing rockets into Israel in support of Hamas.
Key events
Zeina Khodr, reporting for Al Jazeera from Beirut, says that people in Lebanon are scared of what might happen next. She writes for the news network:
Tens of…