The Israeli military said on Sunday that it struck a militant from the Lebanese Iran-aligned Hezbollah group in Beirut, Lebanon's capital.

The strike hit a main road in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where residents told Reuters they heard the roar of warplanes before the blast.

People rushed from their apartment buildings out of fear there would be further strikes, a Reuters reporter in the area said.

At least two dozen people were wounded and have been taken to hospitals in the area, medical sources said.

There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah or from Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

Israeli tanks and a D9 bulldozer cross the Israel-Lebanon border into Israel, as seen from northern Israel on Sunday. (Avi Ohayon/Reuters)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on S

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