Lebanon confirms 11 deaths in Beirut’s Basta area as a series of Israeli strikes also hit its Choueifat, Hadath areas.

Lebanon said an Israeli air strike on the heart of its capital that brought down a residential building and jolted residents across the city on Saturday killed at least 11 people. The attack in Beirut was followed by others in the city's southern suburbs after calls by the Israeli military to evacuate the area.

Israeli forces pounded southern Lebanon and the outskirts of the capital Beirut on Friday, killing at least five medics, and ground troops clashed with Hezbollah fighters in the south. Israel has pushed on with its intense military campaign against the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah,