Israeli strikes kill 23 in Lebanon, including rare attacks on Hezbollah strongholds, escalating conflict with casualties and destruction.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says 19 Syrian refugees and a Lebanese national were killed in Lebanon by an Israeli airstrike.

As Israeli bombs flattened buildings and sent smoke billowing skywards over Lebanon this week, Gazans looked on with both empathy and fear over how the widening war might affect them.

Displaced residents say "war in Lebanon means less global attention towards the crisis in Gaza".

Israel says Monday's strikes targeted Hezbollah weapons. Lebanon's health ministry said the attacks left more than 550 people dead, including at least 50 children and 98 women, in Lebanon's bloodiest day since the end of the 1975-90 Civil War.

BAGHDAD: Ahead of Lebanese engineer Maya Gharib's wedding planned for next month, excited relatives were arranging for her dress to be picked up. But on Monday (Sep 23), 23-year-old Gharib, her two sisters and their parents were killed in an

While international leaders are calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the fighting continues on the ground, with Israel stepping up its attacks on Lebanon this week. Our colleagues at France 2 accompanied a group of Lebanese firefighters in Nabatieh, a town of tens of thousands of people in southern Lebanon, as the emergency workers responded to strike after strike, rescuing those injured in Israeli attacks.

Beirut: Israel has attacked Lebanon again. 23 people have died due to Israel air strike on Lebanon. Israel struck a building in Lebanon. As many as eight

Nearly 700 people been killed in Lebanon this week, according to Lebanon's health ministry, as Israel dramatically escalated strikes, saying it is targeting Hezbollah’s military capacities.Over the past week, Israel has carried out several strikes in Beirut targeting senior Hezbollah commanders. Earlier in the day, a strike in eastern Lebanon killed 20 people, most of them Syrian migrants, according to Lebanese health officials. Also Thursday, the health ministry said two people were killed and 15 were wounded after an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in a southern suburb of Beirut. The Israel Defense Force said the strike killed a Hezbollah drone commander, Mohammed Hussein Surour.Lebanon's disaster risk management unit said Thursday in a report that 60 people were killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon and 81 injured over 24 hours, bringing the total killed since Monday in Lebanon to 696. More than 1,540 people have been killed in Lebanon in the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and Israel since last…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run news agency says an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon hit a building that housed Syrian workers, killing 23 of them and wounding eight other people. The National News Agency says the strike late Wednesday occurred near the ancient city of Baalbek, in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley running along the Syrian border. […]

The territory’s health ministry says that 22 people were wounded in the attack, which Israel says was targeting Hamas militants inside the school.

The UN says Lebanon is hosting 1.5 million Syrian refugees who have been there since the beginning of Syria’s conflict in 2011