LIVE: Israeli warplanes hit Beirut, wave of strikes kill 40 in east Lebanon

Israel bombed Beirut overnight after Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported 40 people were killed and 53 wounded in aerial bombardment of areas in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and Baalbek city.
The UN’s humanitarian chief, Joyce Msuya, has warned that Palestinian civilians held under “near-total brutal siege” by Israeli forces in northern Gaza are “starving while the world watches”.
Hezbollah says swarms of attack drones targeted the Israeli military’s Bilu base south of Tel Aviv for the first time, while a naval base in Israel’s northern port city of Haifa was attacked again.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,391 Palestinians and injured 102,347 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
In Lebanon, at least 3,050 people have been killed and 13,658 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.