Israeli Strikes on Beirut Dahieh Continue Through Monday Night Into Tuesday Morning
Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs — Dahieh — continued through Monday night and into Tuesday morning after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the campaign in response to Hezbollah rocket and drone fire on northern Israel. Thousands have fled Dahieh; Lebanese authorities are tallying casualties. Israeli ground forces remain at the Beaufort Castle / Beaufort Ridge / Wadi al-Saluki line beyond the Litani River, the deepest Israeli position inside Lebanon in 26 years. Hezbollah continued cross-border fire into northern Israel through the night.
Dahieh is Hezbollah’s political-administrative heartland and houses the movement’s leadership infrastructure. Israeli strikes on Dahieh in 2024 killed Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and effectively decapitated the movement’s political wing. Monday-Tuesday’s strikes are the first sustained Israeli targeting of Dahieh since the post-Nasrallah ceasefire framework was supposed to lock in. The Trump “deal next week” framing and the continued Israeli Lebanon campaign sit in direct operational tension: Iran has consistently insisted Lebanon coverage is binding on the framework, and continued Israeli operations make it materially harder for Iran to climb back to the talks table.