Israel releases new footage showing strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon

AT LEAST 490 people have been killed after a day of devastation across Lebanon.

Israel launched a wave of deadly strikes on over 1,000 Hezbollah targets earlier today as thousands of civilians were forced to flee the war-torn border.

Bombs were launched in the south by the Israeli military with 492 killed and over 1,600 injured in the precision assaults, according to Lebanon's health ministry.

Thirty-five children are also among the dead, the Lebanese government claims.

Another of those killed was Hamas field commander Mahmoud Al Nader, the terror group also currently at war with Israel announced.

The deaths - which are expected to continue rising - mark Lebanon's deadliest day in conflict since the end of its civil war in 1990.