Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday vowed to push a war to deep inside Israel in a statement released by the group's al-Manar television. Photo was taken on February 16, 2006. -File photo/Xinhua/AFP

Israeli air strike on Saturday destroyed Hezbollah's headquarters, Lebanese ANB TV reported.

The Israeli bombardment destroyed the Hezbollah general secretariat in Haret Hreik on the southern suburb of Beirut,report said.

There was no word on whether Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was inside the nine-storey building which was also hit late Friday, prompting him to declare an "open war" on the Jewish state.

The Lebanese military confirmed on Saturday that Israeli warplanes launched new raid on Beirut's southern suburbs,stronghold of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah.

"Air strikes are being waged on the southern suburbs," a military spokesman said.

Israeli warplanes fired at least seven missiles at Hezbollah's headquarter and Lebanese al-Nour Radio station in the area, Lebanese Future TV quoted security sources as saying.

Earlier, at least 15 people were killed when an Israel missile hit civilian cars on a road in southern Lebanon, police said.

Some 79 Lebanese people have been killed and over 250 injured since Israel launched air, sea and ground strike in response to Hezbollah militants cross-border attack on Wednesday in which two Israeli soldiers were captured, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV channel quoted Lebanese health minister as saying.

Meanwhile, an Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed on Saturday that three Katyusha rockets landed for the first time in the northern Israeli city of Tiberias, some 30 km from the border with Lebanon.

Several people suffered from shock after the attack and the casualty was not immediately known.