Hezbollah targets Israeli sites and Italian movements to reduce the escalation. Al Jazeera's correspondent said that sirens sounded several times in the Israeli towns of Shlomi and Hanita in the Western Galilee, after rockets were fired from southern Lebanon.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Beirut to discuss reducing the escalation, and is scheduled to inspect the Italian battalion operating within the peace zone. Yesterday evening, Wednesday, 9 people were killed in an Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon, bringing the death toll to 16 within 24 hours, in the most violent wave of Israeli military escalation against Lebanon.