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Massive Israeli strikes shake southern suburbs of Beirut

Massive Israeli strikes shake southern suburbs of Beirut, explosions heard miles away
MENA
16 min read
In what has become a nightly scene, Israel pounded Beirut's southern suburbs Saturday night and into the early hours of Sunday

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Massive consecutive strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs from late Saturday into Sunday, Reuters eyewitnesses said, sending booms across the city and sparking flashes of red and white for nearly 30 minutes visible from several kilometers away.

Separately, a high-level Hezbollah source said on Saturday that contact with Hashem Safieddine, widely touted as potentially the group's next leader, had been lost following Israeli strikes this week on a southern Beirut suburb.

A second source close to Hezbollah also confirmed that communication had been cut off with Safieddine and that his whereabouts were unknown.

Strikes continued to pound areas across southern Lebanon and the eastern Beqaa region on Saturday, as Hezbollah clashed with Israeli soldiers at the border, stopping them from advancing.

Israel's war on Gaza remains ongoing. At least eight Palestinians were killed and others were injured early on Saturday following a strike on the Nuseirat camp and the city of Deir al-Balah, both in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian media said.