🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Local Lebanese media now claim there were two strikes, both targeting the airport.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Initial reports of an assassination carried out by the IDF in southern Beirut

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Reuters, citing an Israeli official: "The Israeli Air Force carried out a major assassination attempt targeting a party official."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli right-wing media are claiming the assassination was successful, a senior Hezbollah official has been killed.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Senior Israeli official: "Our response will be painful and difficult"

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Al-Arabiya reporting damage against the headquarters of Hezbollah's Shura Council.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Reuters: "Senior Hezbollah commander targeted by Israeli strike"

🇲🇱⚡- JNIM militants claim Malian Armed Forces, MAF, hit them with, Turkish, Bayraktar drone strikes.

MAF just carried out major airstrikes on Tin Zautin, JNIM controlled city. Over 40 reportedly killed.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli outlet Yedioth Ahronoth reports that the IDF is on increased alert anticipating a Hezbollah response after the strike in southern Beirut

🇲🇱⚡- View of Tin Zautin, Mali, right now from across the border, Algeria.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli right-wing media alleging that the "number 2 in Hezbollah" was assassinated.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- Syrian Observatory claims that the United States carried out an airstrike in Deir Ez Zor, eastern Syria.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: IDF Spokesman has confirmed that Israel carried out an airstrike in Beirut. "The IDF targeted in Beirut the commander responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams and killed many Israeli civilians."

🇩🇿🇫🇷🇲🇦⚡- "This step, which has not been taken by any previous French government, was taken by the Macron government with great negligence and recklessness, without any assessment of the consequences that could arise as a result of it." – Algerian Foreign Ministry Press Office.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - IDF also added that there has been no change in directives to the Home Front Command.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on X: "Hezbollah crossed the red line."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew Channel 12, according to an Israeli official: "Our retaliation is over and we are not interested in starting a war."

🇱🇾🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "I hope Israel will wipe Hezbollah off the face of the earth," – Al-Saadi Gaddafi, son of former Libyan President, Muammar Gaddafi.

Al-Saadi's brother Hannibal Gaddafi still remains in prison in Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander and one of the orchestrators of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, has been confirmed as the target in today's strike on Beirut.

— 🇱🇧 NEW: After the strike in Beirut, Hezbollah supporters flood the streets with chants of 'We are at your service, 'O Hussain' and 'Never will we surrender!'

@Middle_East_Spectator