Israeli strikes Sunday have killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in Lebanon’s southern Tyre region, the Lebanese health ministry said.

"The raids of the Israeli enemy on villages in the Tyre district have left 11 dead and 48 wounded," said a ministry statement.

Schools in Beirut were closed on Monday after Israeli strikes on the Lebanese capital killed six people including Hezbollah's spokesman.

Education Minister Abbas Halabi announced Sunday that schools and higher educational institutions in Beirut and surrounding areas would close for two days, after Israeli strikes hit the city center.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said on Sunday that a peacekeeping patrol was fired upon "about 40 times" a day earlier, with the culprit "likely from non-state actor members."

The Lebanese army said an Israeli attack on Sunday killed two soldiers, accusing Israel of directly targeting their position in south Lebanon where the Israeli military is fighting Hezbollah.

Hezbollah spokesman Mohammad Afif was killed Sunday in a rare Israeli airstrike targeting the center of the capital Beirut -- outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds of Dahieh, the south and the Bekaa, a Hezbollah official said.

The strike -- in the Ras al-Nabaa area near Sodeco Square -- targeted a building containing the headquarters of the Lebanese branch of the Baath Party that rules Syria. A Baath member who survived the strike said the building also contained an apartment housing displaced Lebanese.

The Israeli military said about 20 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israel on Sunday, with Israeli air defense system intercepting some of them.

Several strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs Sunday morning and at noon, after the Israeli military warned people to evacuate twice.

Columns of smoke were seen rising over the capital's southern suburbs, where Lebanon's only international airport is located.

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