Hundreds of Beirut residents fled their homes late on Sunday after Israel said it was preparing attacks on sites linked to the financial operations of Hezbollah and told people to leave those areas of Lebanon's capital immediately.

At least one Israeli strike hit Beirut's southern suburbs early on Wednesday morning, Reuters witnesses said, hours after the U.S. said it opposed the scope of Israeli attacks in the city amid a rising death toll and fears of wider regional escalation.

Senior Lebanese armed group Hezbollah figure Wafiq Safa survives an Israeli assassination attempt in Beirut on Thursday, three security sources told Reuters.

Blasts were heard in the Lebanese capital of Beirut and smoke billowed into the night sky late on Sunday and early on Monday, not long after Israel's military warned it planned to hit a "large number of targets".

Israel’s military announced it will now take aim at Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s financial arm and plans to attack a “large number of targets” in the coming hours in Beirut and elsewhere. Explosions began in Beirut’s southern suburbs about an hour later on Sunday.

Fighting raged on two fronts Sunday as Israel targeted what it said was a Hezbollah "command centre" in the Lebanese capital, while in Gaza rescuers reported 73 people killed in

The Israeli army reported an airstrike on Sunday targeting Hezbollah intelligence headquarters and underground weapon manufacturing workshops in the southern district of Beirut. The military claims the attack resulted in the deaths of three commanders from the terrorist organization.

The Israeli army reported an airstrike on Sunday targeting Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters and underground weapon manufacturing workshops in the southern district of Beirut. The military claims that the attack killed three commanders of the organization.