A massive Israeli strike has flattened a residential building in centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut. At least 11 people have been killed and more than 60 injured, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
The eight-storey building was completely destroyed without warning by five missiles in the capital's densely-populated Basta district, according to Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA).
Explosions shook the city following the Israeli attack, which happened at about 04:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Saturday.
The Israeli military made no immediate comment about the Basta strike.
The scale of Saturday's air strike and the fact it happened without warning indicate that a senior Hezbollah figure could have been the target, although there has been no confirmation from either the armed group or the Israeli military.
Emergency teams searched the site in Basta, where plumes of smoke rose from a huge crater.
The death toll is likely to rise as work to remove rubble at the site continues. The health ministry said DNA tests will be used to identify victims.
Local resident Nemir Zarariya said he and his family were asleep when the pre-dawn attack began.
"We were deep asleep and then the strike happened and then a second strike. We didn't understand what happened,” he said.
“There was dust and wrecked houses, people running and screaming. My wife is in hospital, my daughter is in hospital, my aunt is in the hospital.”
Gaza civil defence says 19 killed in Israeli strikes
AFP from Gaza City, Palestinian Territories reports; Gaza's civil defence agency said that 19 people, some of them children, were killed in Israeli air strikes and tank fire on Saturday.
Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that "19 people were killed and more than 40 others wounded in three massacres caused by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip between midnight and this morning", as well as by tank fire in Rafah in the territory's south.
