Hezbollah

Israel has dubbed its campaign against Hezbollah “Operation Northern Arrows” and has received warnings from world leaders about the escalating violence.

Israel's military said it had struck over 1,600 targets across southern and eastern Lebanon, including a "precision strike" in Beirut as part of "Operation Northern Arrows."

Lt Gen Herzi Halevi and other Israeli leaders have promised tougher action against Hezbollah in the coming days.

Hezbollah says its attacks against Israel are in support of Hamas. This week, Nasrallah said the barrages won't end — and Israelis won't be able to return to homes in the north — until Israel's campaign in Gaza ends.

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has ordered all members to stop using any type of communication devices after thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by its Hezbollah allies in Lebanon blew up in deadly attacks last week, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters.

Israel and Hezbollah threatened on Sunday to escalate their cross-border attacks despite a chorus of international calls for both sides to step back from the brink of all-out war.

Hezbollah militants launched "about 90" rockets on Saturday as of 5:00 pm (1400 GMT), the military said in a statement to AFP.

The military said Saturday it was again hitting targets "belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation in Lebanon", without elaborating.

This incident marks the second time in less than two months that Israel has targeted a high-ranking Hezbollah commander in Beirut, following the July airstrike that killed Fuad Shukr.

Rinson Jose (37), now a Norwegian citizen and allegedly the owner of Norta Global Ltd., based in Sofia, Bulgaria, is under investigation by international security agencies due to reports connecting his company to the sale of hundreds of pagers.

Aqil joined Hezbollah in the 1980s, and was responsible for the terror group’s attacks outside of Lebanon, according to the IDF

"Following precise intelligence, the Israeli Air Force fighter jets carried out a targeted strike in the Beirut area, eliminating Ibrahim Aqil, commander of the Radwan unit" along with other "senior figures in the operations network and command chain" of Radwan, the military said in a statement.

Israel’s military said the rockets came in three waves Friday afternoon targeting sites along the ravaged border with Lebanon.

The remarks follow a series of unprecedented bombings that occurred this week, widely attributed to Israel. The attacks targeted pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah, resulting in at least 37 deaths and around 3,000 injuries across Beirut, parts of Lebanon, and Damascus.

A second wave of explosive attacks in Lebanon targeted Hezbollah members and civilians using booby-trapped electronic devices, including pagers and walkie-talkies. Israel is suspected, but the country has not commented.

Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel, whose military declined to comment on the blasts.

Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the attack, which came after almost a year of cross-border rocket fire between the two sides in a second front to the war in Gaza

Following the deadly blasts, Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah vowed to punish Israel for a deadly attack and said that Israel "will certainly receive its just punishment for this sinful aggression". However, Israel is yet to comment on the attacks.

Hezbollah vowed on Wednesday to punish Israel for a deadly attack in which hundreds of paging devices used by the militant group's members exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon.

US officials said that Israeli intelligence decided to carry out the attack after concerns arose that Hezbollah may have found out about its secret operation.