The airstrikes on the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital, an area where Hezbollah holds sway, were some of the heaviest since a U.S.-brokered cease-fire came into effect in November.

The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, wrote on X Thursday that the buildings, located in the predominantly Shiite southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh — specifically in the neighborhoods of Hadath, Haret Hreik and Bourj el-Barajneh — were “near facilities belonging to the terrorist Hezbollah.”

The Israeli military has struck several sites in Beirut’s southern suburbs that it said held underground facilities used by Hezbollah for drone production. The attack Thursday came on the eve of