Attack on Baalbek comes days after Israeli attacks hit multi-story building in Barja, killing at least 20 people

Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 40 people around the eastern city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, according to the country's health ministry, and at dusk

At least 40 people were killed in Israeli strikes in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, according to the Lebanese health ministry. An Israeli official said the strikes, in the governorates of Baalbek and Bekaa,

Lebanese rescuers pulled 30 bodies out of the rubble after a late-night Israeli strike on an apartment building in the town of Barja, Lebanon’s Civil Defense service said Wednesday as the Mideast wars press on with no signs of abating.

Israel's war in Lebanon has expanded significantly since mid- September, with Israel pounding the country via land and air. View on euronews

First responders have recovered the bodies of 30 people killed in an Israeli air strike on an apartment building south of Beirut, Lebanon’s Civil Defence agency says. Tuesday evening’s attack destroyed one side of the four-storey building that was reportedly housing displaced people in the predominantly Sunni Muslim coastal town of Barja and sparked a fire.

It remained unclear if there were any survivors or bodies still trapped under the rubble after the Tuesday night airstrike, which hit without warning.