The aerial campaign is an escalation from a year of cross-border warfare between Israel and the Lebanese group since the start of its offensive on the Gaza Strip, in which Israel has killed more than 42,600 people, most of them women and children, since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas last October.

Until now, Israel has mostly focused its military operations on the south of the country, the suburbs of Beirut, and the Bekaa Valley in the east.View on euronews