Watch view of Lebanon capital Beirut as Israel launches air strike
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Watch a view of the southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday, 31 July, after an Israeli air strike targeted a senior Hezbollah commander.
The Israeli military said the strike was retaliation for a cross-border rocket attack three days before that killed 12 children and teenagers.
A loud blast was heard and a plume of smoke could be seen rising above the southern suburbs - a stronghold of the Iran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah - at around 7:40pm local time on Tuesday.
A senior Lebanese security source said a senior Hezbollah commander had been the target of the air strike and his fate remained unclear.
Lebanon’s state-run national news agency said an Israeli air strike had targeted the area around Hezbollah’s Shura Council in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of the capital.
Beirut has been on edge for days ahead of an anticipated Israeli attack in reprisal for the rocket strike on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday that killed the 12 youngsters on a football pitch in a Druze village.
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