An Israeli strike hit Beirut’s southern suburbs late on Monday, a security source said, with a Reuters reporter seeing a flash of light and hearing a loud blast.

The Israeli military had warned it would strike specific buildings in the neighbourhood, a densely populated district south of the Lebanese capital, as fears grow of a looming ground invasion.

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