Beirut is under fire again as Israeli warplanes and special forces step up a two‑front assault on Hezbollah, with heavy airstrikes slamming the group’s Beirut strongholds while IDF commandos clash with fighters deep inside Lebanon, security sources say.

Just after midnight, a new wave of precision bombs hit targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs, lighting the skyline with orange flashes and sending plumes of smoke over densely packed neighbourhoods. The IDF says it struck command bunkers, rocket warehouses and underground tunnels, claiming “key nodes” in Hezbollah’s urban network were destroyed.

Even as the capital reeled, the war shifted east. Lebanese residents in the Bekaa Valley reported intense anti‑aircraft fire streaking into the night as Hezbollah batteries tried to fend off Israeli jets hunting missile batteries and convoys along the Syrian border. Video from the valley shows tracers arcing skyward, followed by distant explosions in the surrounding hills.

On the ground, IDF commando units are now engaged in close‑quarters skirmishes with Hezbollah cells in southern villages and along key mountain passes leading toward Bekaa. Israeli officials describe “targeted raids” to seize weapons caches and capture field commanders; Hezbollah claims it has ambushed several patrols, vowing the south and Bekaa will be “a graveyard for invaders.”

For Lebanon, the nightmare is a war on multiple fronts: capital districts reduced to rubble, valleys echoing with anti‑aircraft fire, and foreign troops fighting street‑to‑street just across the hills. For the wider region, the fear is clear — that tonight’s Beirut bombs and Bekaa tracers are only the opening scene of a far bigger confrontation no one can easily contain.