At least two people were killed and 76 were wounded in today's Israeli air strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced this evening.
Minister Firas Abijad stated that four to six residential buildings were destroyed.
He told the New York Times that people were buried in the rubble.
An Israeli official told NBC News that Israel expects Hezbollah to launch a major revenge attack after the Israeli military attacked the Lebanese organization's headquarters.
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said the US was not warned of Israel's action, and was not involved in it.
Israel notified the US just moments before the attack, CNN reported, citing several sources.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant during the Israeli operation, the spokeswoman added, but declined to say whether Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was the target of the attack, as Israeli media reported.
The agencies later reported, citing sources close to Hezbollah, that Nasrallah was alive and well.
Tonight's attacks were the biggest on the capital of Lebanon in the past year.
Given the scope and timing of the attack, there are strong indications that a senior Hezbollah leader was in the building at the time of the attack, according to the Associated Press.
Another indication of the significance of the attack is the sudden cut short of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's already short visit to the US, from where he is returning tonight.
Netanyahu spoke today at the annual session of the UN General Assembly and announced the continuation of the campaign against the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, assessing that Israel is winning and can reach every point in Iran - the "main source of problems" in the region.
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Ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's expected address to the UN General Assembly on September 27, the country continues to reject its allies' push for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon. They state that they will continue the fight against Hezbollah "until victory".
Israel's bombing of Iran-backed Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon killed hundreds of people this week, as the militant group retaliated with rocket fire.
The United States, France and other allies announced a call for a 25-day truce on September 21, after President Joseph Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
However, on September 26, Israeli leader Netanyahu flatly rejected the ceasefire proposal, ordering the army to continue "the fight with full force".
The White House expressed frustration at the rejection, saying "a lot of care and effort" had gone into the truce proposal.
French President Emmanuel Macron later said it was a "mistake" for Netanyahu to reject the ceasefire and that he would have to take "responsibility" for the regional escalation.
Speaking in Canada where he met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - who also supported the ceasefire - Macron pointed out that the ceasefire plan had been prepared with Netanyahu himself.
The joint cease-fire statement said the situation in Lebanon had become "intolerable" and "is not in anyone's interest, neither the people of Israel nor the people of Lebanon."
Lebanon's National News Agency reported that Israel carried out airstrikes in the early morning of September 27 on several towns in southern Lebanon, injuring several.
The Ministry of Health of Lebanon announced late in the evening of September 26 that 24 people were killed and 92 injured in Israeli attacks in the last 153 hours.
At least 39 people died in attacks on Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said
The US and its allies are demanding an immediate ceasefire and negotiations between Lebanon and Israel
The Israeli army is preparing for a possible ground operation in Lebanon, says the chief of the general staff
Israel activated reserve forces due to growing tensions with Hezbollah
More than 1.500 people have been killed since hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah broke out last October, and Israel's attacks on Lebanon from September 23 to 26 killed more than 700 people, according to Lebanese authorities.
According to the International Organization for Migration, around 118.000 people have been displaced by fighting in Lebanon over the past week.
Israel's Defense Ministry, meanwhile, announced it had secured a new $8,7 billion aid package from the United States to support the country's ongoing military efforts.
Israel's ongoing bombing of Lebanon has raised fears of an all-out regional war in the Middle East.
Israel said earlier this month that it was shifting its focus from the Gaza Strip, where it has been waging a war with Hamas, a Palestinian movement that the US and the European Union consider terrorist, since last October, to its border with Lebanon.
Israel's military chief, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, told soldiers to prepare for a possible ground offensive, according to a military statement.
Yemen's Houthi rebel leader Abdul Malik al-Huthi said in a televised address earlier on September 26 that the Iran-backed group "will not hesitate to support Lebanon and Hezbollah."
The Houthis have targeted ships in the Red Sea with drones and missiles since November, saying the actions were in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza war, which was sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
Diplomats said efforts to end the war in Gaza were key to ending the fighting in Lebanon. But despite months of mediation efforts involving the United States, a ceasefire in Gaza remains elusive for now.
At the UN General Assembly in New York, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud announced a new international coalition that will seek a two-state solution in the Gaza Strip.
A Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 last year killed 1.205 people, most of them civilians, according to AFP figures based on Israeli official figures that include hostages killed in captivity.
Of the 251 hostages Hamas took from Israel to Gaza at the time, 97 are believed to still be held there, including 33 hostages the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel's military retaliatory offensive has killed at least 41.534 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures provided by the Hamas-controlled health ministry. The UN has rated these figures as reliable.
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