Israeli airstrikes intensified across southern Lebanon on Thursday, a day after an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs killed Malek Ballout, a commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, as Israeli surveillance drones continued flying at low altitude over the Lebanese capital.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said a tense calm prevailed in Beirut’s southern suburbs after rescue crews completed rubble removal operations following the strike that targeted an apartment inside a residential building in the Haret Hreik district.

As fighting escalated in the south, the Israeli military issued urgent evacuation warnings to residents of the towns of Deir al-Zahrani, Bfaroueh, and Habboush, instructing them to leave their homes and move at least one kilometer away into open areas.

The Israeli military also announced that two senior Hezbollah commanders had been killed in strikes carried out in Lebanon a day earlier. The army identified them as Mohammad Ali Bazi, Hezbollah’s intelligence chief in the Nasr regional division, and Hussein Hassan Romani, head of the group’s aerial defense unit.

“These commanders worked to advance and carry out terror attack plans against IDF troops and Israeli citizens,” the military said.

The Israeli army said it had struck more than 15 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon over the past day, including weapons depots, weapons manufacturing facilities, command centers, rocket launch positions, and buildings used by the group.

According to the military, Hezbollah also launched several rockets toward Israeli troops stationed in southern Lebanon on Thursday morning. The projectiles landed near the forces but caused no injuries.

Meanwhile, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that the Nabatiyeh region came under intense Israeli bombardment that killed at least three people, wounded several others, and caused widespread destruction.

Israeli warplanes struck the al-Maslakh neighborhood in the city of Nabatiyeh, destroying a residential building. An Israeli drone also targeted an area near the Evangelical School before fighter jets launched another strike less than five minutes later on a nearby residential building.

The second strike flattened the building, severely damaged surrounding homes and businesses, and blocked the main road leading toward Nabatieh al-Fawqa.

Ambulance and rescue crews from Nabatiyeh Ambulance Service, Bayt al-Talibeh, Hezbollah’s Islamic Health Authority, the Islamic Risala Scout Association, the Lebanese Red Cross, and Civil Defense rushed to the scene to search for casualties and reopen the road.

Israeli drones also struck the Toul area near Nabatiyeh. After the initial strike, a civil defense team affiliated with the Islamic Health Authority headed to the site before Israeli aircraft struck the same location again, wounding two rescue workers and heavily damaging their ambulance.

Another strike later hit the al-Qalaa neighborhood in the town of Kfarroumane, destroying a house.

Elsewhere in Nabatieh district, an Israeli drone fired a guided missile at a motorcycle near the junction of Breqaa, reportedly killing one person.

An overnight strike on the town of Douweir destroyed a house belonging to the Hammam family in the Bir Zbib neighborhood and caused extensive damage to dozens of nearby homes and shops. The blast also blocked the road leading into the town before crews from the Islamic Risala Scouts reopened it using a small bulldozer.

Heavy Israeli strikes were also reported in Yater, Deir Kifa, Hanawiya, Jmaijmeh, Khirbet Selm, Zawtar al-Sharqiyeh, Arnoun, and the al-Qalaa neighborhood in Debbine.

An Israeli drone targeted a car carrier truck near the Safa gas station on the Mifdoun road, killing one person, according to Lebanese media reports.

Artillery shelling struck the towns of Habboush, Deir al-Zahrani, Kfour, Srifa, Froun, Ghandouriyeh, Qalaouiyeh, Burj Qalaouiyeh, Aita al-Shaab, Ramieh, Shaqra, and Braachit.

At dawn, Israeli warplanes bombed the town of Kfarreman, while another strike targeted a pickup truck near the vehicle registration authority building on the Habboush road, killing two people.

Additional Israeli raids hit Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Kfarreman, destroying an old house in Nabatieh al-Fawqa.

Israeli warplanes also carried out overnight strikes on the outskirts of Erzi, while one person was killed and another wounded in a separate strike on Mifdoun.

Heavy artillery shelling targeted the Ayta al-Shaab and Ramieh axis at dawn, accompanied by machine-gun fire on the outskirts of both towns.

In Juwaya, an overnight Israeli strike wounded one person, who was transported to a hospital in Tyre by Lebanese Civil Defense teams.

Israeli warplanes also struck the town of Majadel at dawn.

Meanwhile, civil defense teams affiliated with the Islamic Risala Scout Association, under the supervision of the municipalities of Bdeias and Abbassiyeh, continued clearing rubble from the road leading to Bdeias after an Israeli strike the previous day destroyed a two-story building.

Tuesday evening’s strike on Bdeias completely leveled the targeted home and caused extensive damage to neighboring houses, orchards, and farmland.

Hezbollah, for its part, said its fighters continued operations against Israeli troops, announcing attacks on Israeli military vehicles moving from east of Bayyada toward Shamaa, as well as a drone strike targeting an Israeli D9 bulldozer in the Khallat al-Raj area near the town of Deir Siriane.