Nasrallah Threatens Tel Aviv
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened to launch rockets against Tel Aviv if Israel hit Beirut again. Israel just did so, pounding areas that had been warned ahead of time.
The IAF resumed its attacks on southern Beirut on Thursday night with strikes against Hizbullah and Hamas offices in the Dahiya neighborhood, as well as the home of a senior Hizbullah operative.
The Air Force dropped leaflets over the city, earlier in the day, warning residents of five neighborhoods to leave the city.
Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel in a televised interview earlier in the day that if Beirut was struck, then he would launch rockets at Tel Aviv.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Earlier in the day, the IDF released the findings of an inquiry into the collapse of a building in Kana on Sunday, killing dozens of citizens.
The army said that it had believed the building to be vacant of citizens, after it had forewarned the residents to leave the area.
Had the army known that civilians were in the building, the attack would not have been carried out.
On Wednesday, both the Lebanese Health Ministry and the Human Rights Watch said that they could confirm only 28 of the originally reported 57 civilians who died in the building. Of the 28 that they confirmed, 16 were children.
CNN Coverage is here. They have video of leaflet drops warning residents.
Most of the targets were in the Oozaee area, a Hezbollah power base and also the location of several Palestinian refugee camps.
Late Thursday, Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets over several neighborhoods in the area warning residents to leave "for your own safety."
The leaflets warned of an expansion of the Israeli campaign in Beirut because Hezbollah continues to fire rockets into Israel and because of statements made Thursday by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
"The expansion of terrorist operations by Hezbollah will lead to a painful and harsh response and the results will be painful not only for Hassan's gang and its criminals," the leaflets read.
On Thursday, Nasrallah vowed to strike Tel Aviv in retaliation for Israel's bombardment of the Lebanese capital.
"If you hit Beirut, the Islamic resistance will hit Tel Aviv and is able to do that with God's help," Nasrallah said in a televised address.
It was unclear if Nasrallah's address was live or taped. It came on the same day Israel resumed airstrikes on Beirut's suburbs and shortly after Israel dropped leaflets warning residents of some areas of Beirut to evacuate.
