Hezbollah has said it struck a military manufacturing firm in the Tel Aviv suburbs with rockets, claiming the hit was accurate. The Iran-backed group said it hit a “military industries company in the suburbs of Tel Aviv with qualitative rockets and hit the target accurately”.

Around the time of Hezbollah’s claim, air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and neighbouring cities.

The Israeli military said four projectiles were identified as having been fired from Lebanon, two were intercepted, one fell in an open area and one was identified as having fallen in the area. There was no immediate indication of any defence facility having been hit around Tel Aviv and no casualties reported according to the IDF.

It comes after Hezbollah said in a statement late on Wednesday that it had escalated its attacks on Israel, using “precision missiles” for the first time and launched new types of drones on Israeli targets, without offering further details.

It’s 1am in Beirut, Gaza and Tel Aviv. Here’s a recap of the latest developments:

• Israeli strikes pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs on Wednesday night, levelling several buildings and destroying the offices of a Lebanese broadcaster. Lebanese state media reported 17 Israeli raids with six buildings levelled, marking one of the most violent nights in the area since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah escalated a month ago. The country’s health ministry said one person was killed and five others, including a child, were wounded. Pro-Iran outlet Al-Mayadeen said an Israeli strike targeted an office it had vacated there.

• Israeli forces have killed 2,574 people and wounded 12,001 others since its attacks across Lebanon, the country’s health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. At least 28 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon in the last 24 hours, it said.

• Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 42 people on Wednesday as Israeli forces intensified a siege of northern parts of the Palestinian territory. Of at least 42 people reported killed by Israeli military strikes across the territory on Wednesday, 37 deaths were in northern Gaza. The health ministry said at least 650 people had been killed since the new Israeli offensive began in the north of Gaza. Gaza’s civil emergency service said all its operations in northern Gaza were suspended after Israeli forces detained five staff members and bombed the only fire truck.

• The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said one of its staff members was killed when an Unrwa vehicle was hit in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Gaza’s civil emergency service said three of its rescuers were wounded in northern Gaza in what it said was a “targeted strike”, that aimed to force them out of Jabalia. Health and civil emergency officials said dozens of bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in and around Jabalia were scattered on roadsides and under the rubble where medical teams could not reach them.

• Israel carried out airstrikes on Wednesday in Tyre, one of the largest cities in southern Lebanon, which had become a refuge over the past year for thousands of families displaced by fighting further south. Israel began to bomb the Unesco-listed city roughly three hours after its military issued an order online for residents to flee central areas. Videos showed large plumes of smoke billowing between residential buildings in the centre of the city.

• The Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said planned airstrikes on Iran will make the world understand Israel’s military might. The Middle East has been braced for more than three weeks for a threatened Israeli response to Iran’s 1 October missile attack, which was in turn a reprisal for Israel’s killing of the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Gallant visited aircrews at Hatzerim airbase on Wednesday and made clear that Israel still intended to strike back.

• Hezbollah confirmed the death of Hashem Safieddine, who was expected to be Nasrallah’s successor. Israel claimed Safieddine had been killed in an airstrike earlier this month, alongside Ali Hussein Hazima, the head of Hezbollah’s intelligence unit. The death of Safieddine, the most senior Hezbollah official killed since the killing of Nasrallah, throws the leadership of the group further into question. In a statement on Wednesday, Hezbollah pledged to carry on in “that path of resistance and jihad” that Safieddine had spent his life serving.

• The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said his country is tracking “very, very, very carefully” efforts by Israel to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza. He accused Israel of previously having fallen back on promises of sustained deliveries. Blinken said Israel’s success against Hamas had come at “great cost” to Palestinian civilians.

• The US believes there is a greater chance of a hostage release deal between Hamas and Israel now that the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, has been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces, Blinken said. Having described Sinwar as “the primary obstacle” to reaching a deal, it was also announced that Blinken would be in London later this week in order to meet with Arab leaders. Senior Hamas official Dr Basem Naim suggested that Blinken had been wasting his time visiting Israel this week.

• Rescuers recovered the bodies of a woman and her seven-year-old child after an Israeli airstrike near Lebanon’s largest public hospital in southern Beirut on Monday, according to a Lebanese official. At least 18 people, including four children, were killed and more than 60 others wounded after the Israeli strike hit several buildings near the Rafik Hariri university hospital. The Israeli military said it hit a “Hezbollah terrorist target” near the hospital, without giving details, and insisted that the hospital was not targeted.

• The Israel Defense Forces accused six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza of “military affiliation” to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reacted with scepticism, saying that “Israel has repeatedly made similar unproven claims without producing credible evidence”.

• At least five people were killed and 22 others wounded in an explosion and assault at the headquarters of the national aerospace company, Tusaş, outside Ankara on Wednesday. Turkey’s interior minister, Ali Yerlikaya, said it was likely that the militant Kurdistan Workers’ party, or PKK, was responsible for the attack, without giving evidence. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said: “I condemn this heinous terrorist attack and wish mercy on our martyrs.”

Israeli forces have killed 2,574 people and wounded 12,001 others since its attacks across Lebanon, the country’s health ministry said in a new statement on Wednesday.

The updated death toll comes after Israeli strikes in the country yesterday caused:

• Eight deaths and 42 injuries in southern Lebanon.

• Twelve deaths and 68 injuries in Nabatieh.

• Three deaths and 11 injuries in Bekaa.

• Five deaths and 17 injuries in Baalbek-Hermel.

• One injury in Mount Lebanon.

An Israeli strike on Wednesday night hit an office used by the Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen in southern Beirut, according to the outlet.

In a post on X, Al Mayadeen said its office in Beirut was the target of “Israeli aggression”. It said the office had been evacuated before the strike.

The broadcaster’s office was hit in a strike on a multi-storey building in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, Reuters reported, citing sources.

Al Mayadeen has previously accused Israel of deliberately targeting its journalists, citing the channel’s pro-Palestinian stance and pro-Iran’s regional military alliance. Israeli authorities have sought to block Al Mayadeen’s websites and seize equipment linked to the station.

The Israeli military has issued new evacuation warnings for residents in southern Beirut ahead of expected airstrikes.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Arabic language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, posted maps of specific buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs, warning people to leave the area immediately.

The number of people killed in an apparent terror attack on a Turkish defence facility in Ankara has risen to five, the country’s interior minister, Ali Yerlikaya, said.

A further 22 people have been injured, with two in critical condition, he told reporters.

Yerlikaya added that the perpetrators of the attack were “most likely” members of the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK).