Beirut is reeling after another night of heavy Israeli airstrikes, even as IDF commando teams push deeper into Lebanon, clashing with Hezbollah fighters in towns and valleys stretching toward the Syrian border, security sources say.

The latest wave of bombs rained down on the southern suburbs of the capital, where multi‑storey blocks linked to Hezbollah’s political and military wings were struck in rapid succession. Fireballs lit up the Dahiyeh skyline and shockwaves ripped through surrounding districts, sending glass and debris cascading into streets already scarred by earlier raids. Civil defence crews report dozens of casualties and say several families remain trapped beneath collapsed concrete.

While Beirut burned, the battle shifted east. In the Bekaa Valley, residents filmed the sky alive with tracer rounds as Hezbollah anti‑aircraft units opened up on low‑flying Israeli jets and drones. Heavy machine guns, radar‑guided cannons and shoulder‑fired missiles streaked from village outskirts and ridgelines, with at least one aircraft seen releasing flares before vanishing behind the mountains.

On the ground, IDF special forces backed by armour and drones are now engaged in fierce firefights around key crossroads and suspected rocket‑launch areas in southern Lebanon and approaches to Bekaa. Israel describes the raids as “surgical thrusts” to destroy launchers, tunnels and command posts; Hezbollah counters that it has turned villages into “traps” and vows that every metre of Lebanese soil will be contested.

For Lebanon, the message is grimly clear: the war is no longer limited to airstrikes or border skirmishes. From bombed‑out Beirut streets to the anti‑aircraft flashes over Bekaa, the country has become a full‑scale battleground in the struggle between Israel and Hezbollah.