Israeli airstrikes hit more than 1,300 targets in southern Lebanon as the military expanded its conflict against Hezbollah, Israeli Defense Forces said Monday. The strikes killed nearly 500 people and wounded more than 1,600, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said.

Israel said it also launched a strike on a target in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, injuring at least six people, according to Lebanese state media.

The target of that strike, a Hezbollah senior commander, survived, the terror group said. IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari warned there would be more Israeli strikes against Hezbollah’s “terrorist infrastructure” on the Lebanese border and elsewhere. Hagari said the IDF intended to begin targeting another Hezbollah stronghold in the eastern Bekaa valley.

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