Damaged vehicles and bloodstains were seen across Beirut’s Jnah area on Wednesday (April 1) after overnight Israeli strikes hit the area, killing at least five people and wounding 21, the Lebanese health ministry said.

Israel's military said on Wednesday it carried out two separate strikes targeting a senior Hezbollah commander and another senior member of the Iran-aligned group in the Beirut area, but did not identify them or say whether they had been killed.

There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah on the strikes.

The strikes are the latest in an escalating Israeli offensive in Lebanon which has killed at least 1,200 people and displaced 1.2 million others.

Lebanon was pulled into the war in the Middle East when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in solidarity with Tehran, two days after Iran was attacked by Israel and the United States.

Hezbollah's attack prompted a new Israeli ground and air offensive.

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Aftermath of Israeli strikes in Beirut, five killed and 21 wounded according to health ministry

VIDEO SHOWS: DAMAGED CARS AND BUILDINGS AFTER ISRAELI STRIKES HIT BEIRUT'S JNAH AREA IN LEBANON, ACCORDING TO LEBANESE NEWS AGENCY / SOUNDBITE FROM JNAH RESIDENT

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SHOWS: BEIRUT, LEBANON (APRIL 1, 2026) (REUTERS – Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF DAMAGED VEHICLES AFTER ISRAELI STRIKES ON JNAH AREA

2. VARIOUS OF CARS DRIVING PAST DAMAGED VEHICLE / PEOPLE GATHERING

3. VARIOUS OF DAMAGE SEEN ON FACADE OF APARTMENT

4. DEBRIS ON THE GROUND / PEOPLE GATHERED

5. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) RESIDENT OF BEIRUT’S JNAH, HASSAN JALWAN, SAYING:

““It’s an area full of people, a civilian (residential) area. There is nothing there. We have a hospital, a gas station, a mosque, civilians, and civilian markets. There is nothing there. It’s an area in the middle of the capital, in the middle of Beirut. And then what?”

6. VARIOUS OF DAMAGED CAR / PEOPLE AND CARS DRIVING BY

7. VARIOUS OF DEBRIS ON THE GROUND

8. DAMAGED CAR

9. DAMAGE SEEN IN A COFFEE SHOP / BLOOD ON THE GROUND

10. HOOKAH AND BLOOD STAINS ON THE GROUND

11. BLOOD-STAINED SLIPPER / PLASTIC SPLATTERED WITH BLOOD ON GROUND