Another 57 people have been reported wounded, according to a preliminary toll from the Lebanon's health ministry.

Israeli air strikes in and around Beirut have caused significant damage to the country’s largest public hospital and killed more than a dozen people, Lebanese health officials said.

Tragic Israeli strike near Beirut hospital kills 4, wounds 24; Israel displaces 1.2M in Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah fighters.

Israel said it struck Hezbollah targets in Beirut as the Iran-backed militant group fired a volley of rockets at Tel Aviv. The exchange comes as top US diplomat Antony Blinken is in Israel for cease-fire talks.

Israeli airstrikes in and around Beirut caused significant damage to the country's largest public hospital and killed more than a dozen people, Lebanese health officials said, as Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into central Israel hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the region.Lebanon's Health Ministry said that 60 others were wounded in airstrikes late Monday that destroyed several buildings facing the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, located on the outskirts of southern Beirut.The Israeli military said it struck a Hezbollah target, without elaborating, and that it had not targeted the hospital itself.The State Department said Blinken would focus on ending the war in Gaza, securing the release of hostages held by Hamas and alleviating the suffering of Palestinian civilians.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to annihilate Hamas and recover dozens of hostages held by the group. Hamas says it will only release the captives in return for a lasting cease-fire…

The Israeli military says the strike, which destroyed several buildings, hit a Hezbollah target.

Lebanon said four people including a child were killed Monday in Israeli air strikes near the country's biggest public hospital close to south Beirut, with state media reporting over a dozen raids.

Lebanese health officials say Israeli airstrikes in and around Beirut have caused significant damage to the country’s largest public hospital and killed more than a dozen people.

As search teams combed the ruins of residential buildings across from Rafik Hariri University Hospital just south of Lebanon’s capital, locals listened for signs of their loved ones in the wreckage.

Oct. 22 (UPI) -- An Israeli airstrike opposite a hospital in south Beirut killed at least 13 people and injured 57 others hours before U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken touched down in Tel Aviv on his 11th visit in the year since Israel was attacked to try to broker peace talks in the war-torn region.

Lebanese tell BBC their residential building was brought down on top of them, killing 18 including children.

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UN human rights chief Volker Türk condemned an Israeli strike near the Rafik Hariri Hospital, which killed 18. Israel said it wasn't targeting the facility. DW has the latest.