3 Israeli airstrikes target southern Beirut, Lebanese state media reports

 

Smoke rises over Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, on October 3. 

Abdelaziz Boumzar/Reuters

Three Israeli airstrikes struck the southern suburbs of Beirut Thursday afternoon local time, “one of which targeted (the neighborhood of) Haret Hreik,” Lebanese state media NNA reports.

Hezbollah announced shortly after the blasts that its media office was targeted, on a WhatsApp group it shares with reporters.

Several large blasts were heard by CNN teams in west Beirut.

CNN teams there saw large plumes of smoke rising from the southern suburbs of the city, and are hearing the sound of drones in the skies overhead.