Missiles continue to fly across the Middle East Friday as the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran continues, and the Islamic Republic attempts to fight back. What’s left of the regime has attacked at least 12 countries in its desperate bid for survival.

Israel has decided to turn its attention to the Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, and after repeated strikes, the air above the capital, Beirut, is filled with smoke.

Lebanon was fast becoming one of the hottest fronts in the spreading regional conflict that began with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran a week ago. With smoke plumes rising from new strikes in and around Beirut, the capital, the Israeli military told more villagers in the Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah bastion, to move north, indicating airstrikes were imminent.

The situation has gone from “imminent” to “underway”:

? JUST IN: EXPLOSIONS in Beirut as Israel unleashes on the Iranian proxy of Hezbollah and their missile launching capabilities

Smoke can be seen billowing in the area

The regime is being destroyed and so are their proxies. GOOD! pic.twitter.com/VvR6OAObiK

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 6, 2026

Israel continues to pound Hezbollah strongholds at this hour.

The Israeli strikes in Dahiya, a commercial and residential area of Beirut that is a stronghold of Hezbollah, were the most intense since a cease-fire in late 2024. At least three buildings collapsed, and thousands who live in the area have been displaced to other parts of the capital. Hezbollah claimed a string of attacks on Friday against Israeli forces in Lebanon, and the Israeli military said that five soldiers were severely wounded by projectile fire.

Así está hoy el feudo de Hezbolá en Beirut.

Lo que construyó el régimen iraní durante 40 años de terrorismo exportado.

Escombros. pic.twitter.com/q3KEwKD4T8

— Acción y Comunicación sobre Oriente Medio - ACOM (@ACOM_es) March 6, 2026

The translation from Grok:

This is how Hezbollah's stronghold in Beirut looks today.

What the Iranian regime built over 40 years of exported terrorism.

Rubble.

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Footage released by Lebanese media shows Israeli airstrikes hitting Beirut’s southern suburbs, a known Hezbollah terrorist stronghold.

pic.twitter.com/UOfhyOkiVA

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 6, 2026

Hezbollah is both a Lebanese political party and a militant group — designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and many other nations — formed in 1982 after a civil war and an Israeli invasion. They are considered proxies of Iran and are part of the Axis of Resistance, the collection of nations and groups that hate Israel, the U.S., and Saudi Arabia and their influence in the region.

They frequently lob missiles and drones at Israel and are a deadly thorn in the side of the Jewish state. They also have committed numerous acts of terrorism, and it was a Hezbollah suicide bomber who carried out the horrific truck bomb attack in 1983 on U.S. Marine barracks that killed 241 service members.

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1979–81: 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days in Tehran.

1983: U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut kills 17 Americans.

1983: 241 U.S. Marines killed in the Beirut barracks bombing.

1984: U.S. Embassy annex bombing in Beirut.

1996:…

— Matthew Nouriel (@MatthewNouriel) March 5, 2026

1996: 19 U.S. airmen killed at Khobar Towers.

Click on the tweet above to see many more of the terror acts the twisted group has carried out.

Now they’re the target:

Heavy destruction in Beirut’s Dahieh district following a series of Israeli airstrikes.

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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 6, 2026

There are many leftists on social media right now screaming that Israel’s ultimate goal is to create a “greater Israel” and that this conflict isn’t about defense, but is about Israel’s desire for hegemony in the region. They would be wise to remember dozens of events like this one:

June 1985: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847 on its way from Athens to Rome, torturing a U.S. Navy diver before shooting him point blank in the head and tossing his body onto the Beirut airport tarmac.

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 6, 2026

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