Israel completely flattened at least six residential buildings in Beirut’s southern Dahiya district with 2000-pound bombs amid claims that Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah was the target.

As Israel expands bombing in Lebanon, Hezbollah rockets have reached reached Akka, Haifa, Tiberias, and the lower Galilee. Meanwhile, in Gaza, Israel returned a truckload of decomposing bodies without identification that it had abducted from Gaza.

Israel’s intensifying bombardment of Lebanon has killed at least 274 people so far, while Hezbollah retaliates with rockets across Israel. The Israeli army also raided and forcibly shut down the Ramallah office of Al Jazeera.

Israel bombed a residential building in Beirut’s southern Dahiya district on Friday killing nine, including five children, and wounding 59. Reports indicate the strike targeted Ibrahim Aqil, one of Hezbollah’s top military commanders.

Following the Lebanon pager explosion attacks, Nasrallah said an Israeli invasion would be a “historic opportunity” to target Israeli forces. Earlier in the week, Israel razed an entire residential block in central Gaza, killing at least 40 people. 

I stayed in Amman for the first time in my life the week before the Allenby border shooting. It was strange to be in an Arab country not under occupation, but I also saw Palestine everywhere.

The widespread Israeli attack that led to the detonation of thousands of pagers across Lebanon came after rumors that Netanyahu seeks to replace his defense minister due to his opposition to war with Hezbollah.

Israeli settler violence continues to terrorize Palestinians in the Jordan Valley as the U.S. envoy arrives in the region to deescalate tensions along Lebanon’s southern border.

The UN Secretary-General condemned Israel’s massacre of dozens of Palestinians in Nuseirat after six UNRWA workers were among the slain. Meanwhile, Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians in the West Bank within two days.

Israel committed another massacre in an area it has designated as a “safe zone.” The airstrikes buried entire families in the sand.