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BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Hezbollah rockets destroyed homes and lives in northern Israel on Tuesday, as Israeli forces bombarded Lebanese villages across the border.
One Katyusha rocket killed a 15-year-old girl in the village of Meghar in the Galilee region, Israeli police and medical service officials said.
At least 18 people were injured when more than a dozen Hezbollah rockets landed in three or four places in Haifa, officials said.
One rocket struck a seven-story apartment building, CNN's John Vause said. Another struck near the home of a man, leaving him dead of a heart attack, officials said. A local hospital received up to 30 casualties, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported.
Israeli troops have pushed into southern Lebanon in a bid to reduce Hezbollah's capability to fire on northern Israel.
Tuesday evening, the Israeli military took over Bint Jbeil, north of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon, after heavy fighting, according to Israel Defense Forces Gen. Gal Hirsch, who commands the Galilee Division.
The Israeli military has dubbed the area Hezbollah's "terror capital" and Bint Jbeil a Hezbollah rocket-launching site.
On Tuesday, the IDF reported it had killed 20-30 Hezbollah fighters in the area during the past 24 hours.
Several civilians "are still stranded" and "caught in the crossfire" there, according to UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
Seven people were killed in the same region when an Israeli airstrike hit a house in the village of Nabatiye overnight, Lebanese security sources said Tuesday morning. The IDF did not respond directly to the report.
Tuesday afternoon, a series of explosions hit Beirut's southern suburbs, sending gray smoke wafting through the city's high-rise buildings. Flashes of fire accompanied the blasts, which reverberated throughout the city.
The capital's southern suburbs are a Hezbollah stronghold and have been a frequent target of Israeli airstrikes during the past two weeks.
At least 392 people, mostly civilians, have been killed, and as many as 1,383 wounded in Lebanon during the crisis, Lebanese security officials said Tuesday.
In Israel, at least 41 people have died -- 19 civilians and 22 soldiers -- and at least 388 people, primarily civilians, have been wounded, according to the IDF.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Jerusalem, vowed to continue the offensive against Hezbollah, despite pleas by Lebanese government officials for an immediate cease-fire.
The United States has been walking a tightrope between supporting Israel's right to self-defense and trying to avoid destabilizing Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government, which the United States has embraced since it came to power.
Before her visit to Jerusalem, Rice stopped in Beirut to meet with Siniora and other Lebanese leaders.
As Rice and Olmert met, Israeli forces launched airstrikes on the Lebanese coastal city of Tyre.
CNN's Karl Penhaul saw Hezbollah rockets launch from the area, followed shortly by a flyover by an unmanned aerial drone, most likely doing reconnaissance to find the launch site.
Soon after, Israeli artillery and airstrikes hit south of the city, sending billowing plumes of smoke and dust into the air to mix with the haze hanging over the mountains.
The IDF later reported that the Katyusha launch site -- which it said was used to launch the rockets on Haifa -- was destroyed by the Israeli air force.
The crisis began July 12 after Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers during a cross-border raid into Israel. Since then, Israeli artillery and warplanes have been pounding Lebanon in their mission to destroy suspected Hezbollah hideouts, including targets in civilian neighborhoods, and Hezbollah has responded by firing rockets into Israel.
The conflict has devastated Lebanon's infrastructure, including roads, bridges and airports.
Gaza
Israeli forces also battled on another front, in Gaza.
The IDF said forces there carried out aerial attacks overnight on buildings in Gaza City and Rafa that were used by Islamic Jihad and Hamas to store weapons and explosives.
The fighting there intensified after Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit was kidnapped June 25 by Palestinian militants.
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