Israel on Thursday said it hit Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut amid growing fears of an all-out war in the Middle East following recent days of exchange of hostilities between Israeli troops and Iran-backed group.Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiye, a stronghold of Hezbollah, came under heavy attack on Thursday after Israel ordered people to leave their homes in parts of the district.The air raids reportedly targeted Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine, rumoured successor to the group’s former chief Hassan Nasrallah, in an underground bunker. Safieddine’s fate was not clear, reports claimed.Dahiye has witnessed a barrage of Israeli missiles for the past few weeks, including bombs that killed Nasrallah a week ago. Hezbollah also said it carried out new strikes, targeting what it called Israel’s “Sakhnin base” for military industries in Haifa Bay on the Mediterranean coast of northern Israel and “Nesher base” in Haifa.
