On October 5, the IDF announced that it killed Hamas commander Said Alaa Naif Ali in the Tripoli area of Lebanon. The IDF said that he led attacks against Israelis and worked to recruit operatives for Hamas in Lebanon.

In Mount Lebanon province in the middle of Lebanon, Israeli strikes killed eight people in the village of Baalchmay southeast of Beirut and fifteen people in Joun village in the Chouf district, Lebanon's health ministry said.

Blasts and thick smoke were seen over Beirut's southern suburbs in Lebanon amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.

Three Hezbollah field commanders have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed on Wednesday. The IDF said Ayman Muhammad Nabulsi, the incoming commander of Hezbollah’s ‘Nasser’ Unit’s anti-tank missile array in the southern Lebanese area of Hajir was killed on Sunday.

The Israeli military pounded Beirut's southern suburbs with airstrikes on Tuesday, mounting one of its heaviest daytime attacks yet on the Hezbollah-controlled area after the defence minister ruled out a ceasefire until Israeli goals were met.

Lebanese state media reported on Wednesday a third wave of Israeli raids on Hezbollah's south Beirut bastion in 24 hours, after the health ministry said another strike south of the capital killed six people.