Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports 123 people have been killed and 683 wounded since Israel began a massive wave of attacks across much of Lebanon on Monday. Among the dead are a 5-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy killed when the Israeli army raided their home in the town of Mashghara. Over the past 24 hours, Israeli jets bombed southern and eastern Lebanese towns and southern suburbs of the capital, Beirut, after threatening residents to leave their homes or face death. On Thursday, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that all of Beirut’s southern suburbs will face devastation similar to Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, which the Israeli military reduced to rubble.

Bezalel Smotrich: “We are now on the northern border, after the IDF instructed all residents of the area to evacuate. You wanted to bring hell upon us? You brought hell upon yourselves. The Dahiyeh will look like Khan Younis. Our northern residents will live in quiet, peace and security.”