Early Friday morning, Israel's Channel 14 claimed that the intense bombardment of southern Beirut’s suburbs was aimed at assassinating Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council.

Reuters, quoting a Lebanese security official, reported that the ongoing Israeli strikes on southern Beirut are even more intense than the attack that killed Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
At the same time, local Lebanese sources confirmed that Israeli fighter jets continue to pound southern Beirut's suburbs. Reports indicate that areas such as Burj al-Barajneh are under heavy bombardment, with more than five rounds of airstrikes hitting the area in recent minutes.
Israel launched several waves of airstrikes on Beirut’s southern neighborhood of Dahiyeh on Thursday.
The regime used powerful bunker-buster bombs in its latest attacks, whose number was more than a dozen.
Several civilian buildings were the main goals of the regime’s latest strikes.
Reports indicate that more bombs were used in the latest attacks compared to the strike that killed the leader of the Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, last Friday.
This marks a significant escalation in the conflict, with the attacks on southern Beirut intensifying amid ongoing tensions in the region.
In response, Hezbollah has fired barrages of rockets and drones towards Israeli targets.
Hezbollah has been responding to the aggression with numerous retaliatory operations, including with hypersonic ballistic missiles, targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its operations against Israel as long as the Israeli regime continues its Gaza war, which has so far killed more than 41,780 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
The qualitative strikes of Hezbollah have so far thwarted any hostile "Israeli" advance into Lebanese territory.