Israeli attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs were the “most violent” to hit the area since the war began, with 17 airstrikes launched over a few hours, Lebanon’s state news agency said on Wednesday. Lebanese authorities said at least one person was killed and five injured in the strikes on the Dahiyeh area, a Hezbollah stronghold.

Four people including a child have been killed in an Israeli air strike near the main government hospital in southern Beirut, the Lebanese health ministry says. The strike appeared to hit the car park of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital,

Israeli jets struck multiple buildings in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre on Wednesday, sending up large clouds of black smoke, while Hezbollah confirmed that a top official widely expected to be the militant group's next leader had been killed in an Israeli strike.