Israel launches heavy airstrikes on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

The Israeli military struck several towns in southern Lebanon on Thursday, hours after militant group Hezbollah urged the Lebanese government not to enter negotiations with Israel over the group’s disarmament.

According to Israeli army Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee, residents of several towns on the Mediterranean coast and near the Lebanon-Israel border were given advance warning to keep a distance from residential buildings Israel was targeting, adding that they were used by Hezbollah.

The Israeli military said “it targeted military infrastructure for Hezbollah in those areas, including weapons storage facilities … constructed in the centre of civilian-populated areas.”

It accused the group of rebuilding its capabilities almost a year after a US-brokered ceasefire went into effect that ended some two months of intensive fighting.

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