Al-Qard al-Hassan is a Hezbollah unit that's used to pay operatives and help buy arms, a senior Israeli intelligence official said.

By Amina Ismail, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Laila Bassam BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) -Hundreds of Beirut residents fled their homes late on Sunday with multiple explosions heard across the Lebanese capital, as Israel prepared to attack sites linked to the financial operations of Lebanon's Hezbollah group and told people to leave those areas immediately.

Israel has struck targets of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s financial arm in Beirut’s southern suburb. (AP Video shot by Fadi Tawil)