Lebanese media said the planes flew over the southern suburbs of Beirut, Bchamoun, Aramoun, Khaldeh, Choueifat, and other surrounding areas.

 

Cautious calm prevailed in the southern suburbs of Beirut one day after an Israeli airstrike targeted a building in the area.

 

Israel on Friday carried out its first major airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs in months, retaliating for an earlier rocket launch from Lebanon in the most serious test of a shaky ceasefire deal agreed in November.

 

Israel said the strike had targeted a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a Hezbollah stronghold known as the Dahiyeh, that Israel said was a drone storage facility belonging to the Iranian-backed group.

 

The south Beirut airstrike was heard across the Lebanese capital and produced a large column of black smoke. It followed an evacuation order by Israel's military for the neighborhood, and three smaller targeted drone strikes on the building intended as warning shots, security sources told Reuters.