Night raids on the Beirut suburb and warnings to its residents to evacuate news

An Al Jazeera correspondent said that Israeli raids targeted the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, at dawn on Saturday, and the raids came shortly after warnings from the Israeli army to evacuate some areas and stay away from them.

Before its first raid, the Israeli army said that it would strike a Hezbollah building in the Burj al-Barajneh neighborhood in the southern suburb of Beirut, calling on “its residents to move away immediately.”

An Israeli army spokesman also issued a warning to residents of areas in the southern suburbs of Beirut and asked them to “evacuate immediately.”

Later, Al Jazeera's correspondent said that 4 other raids targeted the Choueifat area and the vicinity of the Sayyid al-Shuhada complex in the southern suburb of Beirut.

On Friday morning, the Israeli Air Force carried out a massive raid targeting the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Hashem Safi al-Din, whose fate is still shrouded in mystery, while Israel confirmed that there are increasing indications that he was killed in the raid.

The name of Hashem Safi al-Din, born in 1964, was recently mentioned as a possible successor to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated by Israel on September 27 last year.

Since last September 23, Israel has launched bloody raids on Lebanon, resulting in nearly two thousand dead and thousands wounded.

Later, the Israeli army launched ground incursions into Lebanon, but faced fierce resistance from Hezbollah fighters.

In addition to confronting the ground incursion, Hezbollah continued to fire rockets at an increasing rate at Israeli settlements and cities.