Israel strikes Lebanon’s Beirut again; Hezbollah launches drones at Israel

The Israeli army says it is striking Hezbollah targets as its raids cause mass civilian displacement in Lebanon.Published On 3 Mar 2026Israel has bombed Lebanon’s capital Beirut for the second consecutive day as Hezbollah claimed an attack on an airbase in northern Israel, with another front in the regional war sparked by United States-Israel attacks on Iran igniting.New Israeli air raids on Tuesday hit the Haret Hreik area of Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh after at least two more attacks on the city’s outskirts.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3UK faces legal, military quagmire as Starmer allows US to use British baseslist 2 of 3Trump says Iran war projected to last 4 to 5 weeks, could go ‘far longer’list 3 of 3Rubio suggests US strikes on Iran were influenced by Israeli plansend of listThe Israeli military said its troops “are operating in southern Lebanon” as it continues strikes.It also issued forced displacement notices for some 59 areas in Lebanon, including several neighbourhoods in Dahiyeh, traditionally home to more of the Shia population, seen as a support base for Hezbollah.In a post on the Telegram messaging app, it said it was striking “Hezbollah command centres and weapons storage facilities in Beirut”.Civilians across Lebanon are continually caught in the crosshairs of Israeli attacks in Lebanon and have suffered thousands of deaths and mass displacement during the yearlong war in 2023-24 and in subsequent near-daily Israeli violations of a ceasefire up until the eruption of this new conflict days ago.Al Jazeera’s Heidi Pett, reporting from Beirut, said this resulted in “a wave of displacement”. “We’ve seen civilians making their way out of there from the second these strikes began.”“This morning, schoolchildren are not heading to schools in Beirut because many of them are closed in order to take in the thousands and thousands of people who have been displaced from the southern suburbs.”