An Israeli air strike has killed 29 people in central Beirut and 13 others in attacks in eastern Lebanon, according to the Ministry of Public Health, as Israel presses its offensive against the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Eight of the victims, four of them children, were killed in a strike on the village of Chimstar and five people died in an attack on the village of Bodai, the ministry said on Saturday. Both villages are in the Baalbek district.
Earlier, Israeli missiles flattened a residential building in a densely populated area in the heart of Beirut, state media reported.
At least 29 people were killed and 66 others wounded in the Beirut attack, the Health Ministry said.
Volunteers and rescue crew were looking for survivors as bulldozers and heavy equipment dug through the debris.
The grim task of identifying body parts from the attack in the neighbourhood of Basta was ongoing, the ministry said in …