Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into northern Israel on Tuesday as the group's Deputy Secretary-General Naim Kassem issued a defiant address vowing to defeat Israel's operations in Lebanon. More Israelis in the north of the country will be displaced as Hezbollah expands its operations, he said.

Israeli air strikes continue to pound south Beirut as huge explosions reported in central Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.

The Israeli military widened its ground offensive by sending more troops into Lebanon as it continued pounding strikes in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs, a stronghold of the group. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli airstrikes had killed two successors to Hezbollah's slain leader,