Israel on Friday unleashed a spate of airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, an area seen as a hotbed of Lebanon's Iran-allied Hezbollah movement. In the evening, the Israeli military carried out four airstrikes on the suburbs,

The attacks came as Israel’s military has been pounding an area just outside the Lebanese capital with some of the heaviest waves of bombardment in months.

Airstrikes targeting Beirut’s southern suburbs resumed on Thursday, November 21, the Lebanese National News Agency said.Footage by journalist Nafiseh Kohnavard shows a cloud of smoke and dust rising in southern Beirut.