Beirut, April 8, (dpa/GNA) – Israel renewed its strikes on Wednesday afternoon, targeting an uptown neighbourhood in the capital Beirut.
A 10-storey building was partially destroyed, when at least three strikes hit it.
Rescue teams on the scene said, there are casualties under the rubble.
Eyewitnesses said emergency workers are also trying to free a family stuck in the building, as a child looks out of a window.
The Health Ministry updated its death toll saying, 112 people had been killed and 837 were wounded in strikes in Beirut and southern and eastern Lebanon today.
The ministry said earlier that dozens of people had previously been killed and hundreds injured, in a surprise large-scale attack by the Israeli Air Force on targets throughout Lebanon, including Beirut.
The Israeli military said the attack involved some 50 fighter jets, and also targeted positions of Iran-backed militia Hezbollah.
The Israeli military also said it had struck a Hezbollah commander in Beirut, saying further details would follow.
Hezbollah said the attacks had targeted civilians throughout Lebanon, and condemned this as “barbaric aggression” and “crimes against humanity”.
It said they were a sign of Israel’s weakness in the face of the “attacks by the resistance” in Lebanon. The organization announced it would retaliate, in a statement.
Iran and the US agreed on a two-week ceasefire, and the temporary reopening of the Strait of Hormuz overnight under a last-ditch deal to avert a massive wave of strikes threatened by US President Donald Trump.
The agreement, brokered by Pakistan, was praised by politicians worldwide, but concern remains over the situation in Lebanon as Israel carried out attacks through the day.
Earlier, the Israeli military said it would halt attacks on Iranian targets, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Lebanon was not included in the ceasefire.
That contradicted earlier statements by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who said on X that the ceasefire explicitly applied to Lebanon as well.
Hours later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disagreed, saying the ceasefire only covers the conflict between the US and Iran, but not to Israel’s operations against Hezbollah.
GNA