Massive Israeli Strikes on Beirut's Southern Outskirts in Pictures

On Saturday, the IDF announced that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut, along with several other commanders.

The airstrike, which targeted Hezbollah's main headquarters in Beirut's Dahiyeh neighborhood on Friday, destroyed six residential buildings, according to Lebanese media. This followed a series of explosions on September 17 and 18 that killed 37 people and injured over 3,000.

Since last week, the Israeli Air Force has been carrying out massive strikes on Hezbollah targets in various parts of Lebanon, and to date the Israeli military has reported strikes on several thousand of them.

Take a look at the aftermath of Israel’s strikes on Beirut in Sputnik's gallery:

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Flames rise after an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

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Israeli warplanes have struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in the last few hours and hundreds of targets across Lebanon in the past 24 hours, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday.

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A child sleeps on the ground in Beirut's Martyrs' Square after fleeing Israeli airstrikes in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh.

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Families sit on the ground in Martyrs' Square after fleeing IDF airstrikes in Beirut.

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A car sits in a crater.

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Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in Beirut.

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More than 90,000 people have already been forced to leave their homes in southern Lebanon due to the escalation of the conflict with Israel, according to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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Lebanese people watch smoke rise from Israeli airstrikes.