BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities on Monday urged the families of people who went missing in the Zionist military strikes to conduct DNA tests at specialized centers to identify the remains of loved ones.

"To help families of those who went missing following the [Zionist] aggression on Lebanon and to make the process of identifying victims and their remains smoother," families should head to centers affiliated with the Judicial Police "to conduct DNA tests", the police said in a statement.

For the past week, the Zionist entity has heavily bombed the country's east, south and southern Beirut suburbs, killing hundreds of people and displacing up to one million. On Friday, Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs -- a strike Lebanon said killed six people, without identifying them. On Saturday, Health Minister Firas Abiad said bodies and body parts were still under the rubble.

Social media users have called for help finding missing relatives, while an AFP correspondent in southern Lebanon reported hospital morgues were filled with unidentified remains. Since mid-September, Israeli strikes on across Lebanon have killed more than 1,000 people, authorities said. – AFP