When Zarifa Nawfal's family arrived in Beirut for her wounded daughter's surgery, one of the first things she wanted to do was go to the sea. The Mediterranean had been a constant companion at their home in Gaza before the war.

"The moment I smelled the sea, I felt at peace inside — as if I were in Gaza," she said.

Israeli warplanes started bombarding Beirut's southern suburbs around noon Wednesday after fresh evacuation warnings were issued by Israel for six areas in Haret Hreik and Ghobeiri.

TV footage showed a plume of black smoke rising over the area after a strike, about an hour after Israel’s army told residents to leave, in the third such warning in 24 hours.

Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike killed at least six people on Wednesday in a densely-packed area south of the capital Beirut, outside Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds.

"The Israeli enemy strike on Aramoun killed six people" and wounded 15 others, the ministry said giving a preliminary toll, adding that "body parts were recovered from the site and their identities are being verified."

First responders say a rocket fired from Lebanon hit a storage facility in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, killing two people.

The Magen David Adom rescue service said the two people killed on Tuesday were in their 40s. It said two others were wounded by shrapnel from a separate impact near the town.

An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Mount Lebanon’s Chouf province killed at least 15 people, including eight women and four children, and wounded at least 12 others, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.

The strike came without warning. Lebanese state media said the building was sheltering displaced families.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein said he believes "there is a shot" of securing a ceasefire deal in Lebanon soon, telling U.S. news portal Axios: "I am hopeful we can get it."

A drone fired from Lebanon smashed into a nursery school near the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Tuesday morning, but no children were injured as they were inside a bomb shelter at the time of the attack.

That's according to an Associated Press reporter who visited the scene. The impact scattered debris across the playground.

An Israeli strike hit a villa in the mountains east of Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least five people, in a rare attack outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds.

The Israeli strike hit a house between Dhour al-Abadiyeh and Baalshmay in the Aley district.

Druze leader and former Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat does not conceal his pessimism as to the ongoing Israeli war on Lebanon, saying he does not see a glimpse of hope regarding an imminent end to the "open war between Iran and Israel in Lebanon."

Lebanon's stance on the ongoing war is "clear: a ceasefire and the implementation of Resolution 1701," Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said.