The airstrike at around 5:30 p.m. (1530 GMT) hit a building ​in the Bachoura neighbourhood, around 1 kilometre from the ⁠Lebanese government’s Grand Serail headquarters in downtown Beirut.

Before the strike, the ​Israeli military issued a warning telling residents they were near a ​Hezbollah facility against which it intended to take action.

Israel launched an air and ground offensive last week against Hezbollah, which launched attacks at Israel on March 2 that ​it said aimed to avenge the killing of Iran’s supreme ​leader at the start of the on Iran.

Hezbollah has fired rockets and drones ‌at ⁠Israel every day since, including its largest barrage late on Wednesday that triggered heavy Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Israel has pounded Lebanon’s south and east and the capital’s southern suburbs, killing more than 600 ​people, according to ​Lebanese authorities. ⁠It has also ordered mass evacuations in those same areas, pushing more than 800,000 people out of ​their homes.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the military ​had ⁠been instructed to expand its operations in Lebanon.

“We promised quiet and security to the communities of the north, and that is exactly what we ⁠will ​deliver,” he said at a meeting with ​senior military officials.