Wave of Israeli airstrikes targets areas across south Lebanon

A wave of Israeli airstrikes targeted the Jezzine, Tyre, Bint Jbeil and Sidon districts in south Lebanon on Friday evening, with the Israeli army claiming that it hit Hezbollah "combat equipment and rocket launchpads."

"A short while ago, the IDF (Israeli army) conducted intelligence-based strikes on military sites in southern Lebanon belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in which weapons and rocket launchers belonging to Hezbollah were identified," the Israeli army said in a statement, adding that they "constituted a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon."

Al-Arabiya television said the "26 airstrikes" were the fiercest since the end of the latest war between Israel and Hezbollah.