Yesterday, Sunday, Hezbollah launched the largest missile attack of its kind since the outbreak of its direct confrontations with Israel at the end of last September, targeting its north and center and destroying or setting fire to homes, including Greater Tel Aviv, while Israeli warplanes intensified their raids on large areas in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

The Israeli army confirmed the launch of 350 rockets since yesterday morning, a large number of which were intercepted, while sirens sounded in most of the targeted sites.

He added that at least 4 people were injured by missile shrapnel, and the Israeli Army Radio quoted its sources as saying that 4 million people entered the fortified rooms as a result of these attacks.

After the bombing of Tel Aviv, Hezbollah published a photo with the phrase: Beirut faces Tel Aviv, showing traces of missiles that targeted Israel yesterday.

Hezbollah also broadcast footage of targeting military bases belonging to the occupation army in Tel Aviv with suicide drones and missiles, and displayed pictures that it said were of targeting the Israeli Shraga base with missiles and drones.

The party also broadcast a recording showing what it said was the targeting of the Maalot-Tarshiha settlement in northern Israel with rockets.

The Israeli ambulance service announced that 11 Israelis were injured in Nahariya, Haifa, Petah Tikva, east of Tel Aviv, and Kfar Blum in the Upper Galilee, as a result of missile attacks launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon.

Israeli Channel 13 confirmed that fires broke out in sites in Nahariya and Haifa as a result of direct hits by missiles fired from Lebanon.

Israeli raids

In return, the Israeli army announced that it had attacked 12 military headquarters in the southern suburb belonging to the intelligence agency and Hezbollah's missile unit.

The official Lebanese National News Agency said, "A series of violent raids targeted Haret Hreik, Bir al-Abed and Ghobeiry in the southern suburbs of Beirut."

Earlier, the agency reported that "Israeli warplanes launched two violent raids on the southern suburb of Beirut - the Kafaat area."

Security sources in Lebanon said that the Israeli raids destroyed two residential buildings.

The Lebanese government decided on Sunday evening to suspend in-person teaching in all schools, institutes and universities, both public and private, in the capital Beirut and nearby areas, on Monday, and replace it with distance learning.

It also decided to provide the option of distance learning until the end of the year, due to the "current dangerous conditions" resulting from the ongoing Israeli raids.

Al Jazeera correspondents reported that heavy Israeli artillery shelling targeted the towns of Al-Bayada and Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, while Israeli aircraft launched raids on the towns of Deir Qanoun, Ras al-Ain, Labouneh, Al-Jabour, Kafr Tibnit, Al-Qatrani and Zawtar Al-Sharqiya in southern Lebanon.

In turn, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said yesterday, Sunday, that 58 people were killed and dozens were injured in a preliminary toll of Israeli raids that targeted several areas of the country.

The Ministry of Health stated that among the martyrs were 20 people in the Israeli raid on the Basta area in the capital Beirut, and 24 martyrs in the raids on the Bekaa region, including 4 children.

Field battles

This comes as clashes continue between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli forces in the town of Khiam in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon for the seventh consecutive day.

Hezbollah said on Sunday night that it had bombed for the sixth time a gathering of Israeli forces east of the city of Khiam, and attacked a gathering of these forces south of the city with a suicide drone.

A Lebanese security source told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces had penetrated the southern neighborhoods of the town, and were trying to advance from the western and eastern sides of the city, where clashes were taking place between the two sides.

The source added that the Israeli forces blew up a number of houses in different neighborhoods of the town of Khiyam.

Hezbollah said that it had fired rockets at an Israeli force as it advanced to withdraw a destroyed tank on the western outskirts of the town of Deir Mimas, and for the second time targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy forces at the Deir Mimas triangle in Kfar Kila.

The party also bombed the settlements of Shtula and Avivim with a barrage of rockets, and attacked a gathering of Israeli enemy forces in the town of Shama with a suicide drone.

Before that, Hezbollah said that it destroyed 4 Merkava tanks with guided missiles in the town of Al-Bayada, killing and wounding their crews. It also destroyed a Merkava tank with a guided missile on Al-Lubiya Hill, west of the town of Deir Mimas.

In contrast, an Israeli army statement said that its forces raided about 150 targets in southern Lebanon and eliminated dozens of militants, according to the statement.

The army said that infantry and armored forces had taken operational control of the area. The statement added that the army had found weapons depots and destroyed infrastructure with the aim of dismantling Hezbollah's capabilities.

For its part, the Lebanese army announced the killing of a soldier and the injury of 18 in an Israeli bombardment of an army center in Al-Amiriya in the Tyre district in the south of the country.

The Israeli army is intensifying its targeting of all parts of Lebanon following a visit by US envoy Amos Hochstein with the aim of reaching a ceasefire agreement, after Israel expanded its war on Lebanon through air strikes since September 23, and also began a ground invasion in the south.