The Israeli Air Force launched a raid on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, without prior warning, and carried out strikes - described as the most violent since the beginning of the war - on the southern suburb, at a time when the Israeli Minister of Defense and the Chief of Staff of the Army approved the continuation of offensive operations on the northern front, despite talk of a possible ceasefire.

On Sunday evening, Hezbollah broadcast footage that it said documented the bombing of Israeli military bases in Tel Aviv, central Israel, which was subjected to the most intense missile bombardment with hundreds of missiles.

Maariv newspaper revealed a surprise in a report by its military correspondent, Avi Ashkenazi, in which he said that the Israeli army might target the Lebanese parliament building in Beirut as part of the options in the war on Lebanon, in order to declare “victory” and return the residents of the north to their homes.

An Israeli airstrike on the Baalbek district in eastern Lebanon killed the director of a private hospital and six of its employees on Friday, while fighter jets launched a series of airstrikes targeting Beirut's southern suburbs.

An Israeli air strike on a building in a densely populated area of Beirut on Sunday killed Hezbollah's media relations chief, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters, but the group has yet to confirm the report, and the Israeli military declined to comment after questions from Reuters.

Israeli warplanes launched 9 raids on Beirut's southern suburbs in the early hours of Wednesday morning, after Israeli warnings to neighborhoods to evacuate. This comes as Hezbollah has expanded its missile strikes in the past hours.