Lebanese flee as blasts hit Beirut, Israel warns of strikes on Hezbollah finance arm

Hundreds of Beirut residents fled their homes late on Sunday with multiple explosions heard across the Lebanese capital, as Israel prepared to attack sites linked to the financial operations of Lebanon's Hezbollah group and told people to leave those areas immediately.

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&87 dead or missing& after Israeli strikes on northern Gaza Strip

Israeli strikes on multiple homes in the northern Gaza Strip overnight and into Sunday have left at least 87 people dead or missing, the territory&s Health Ministry said. It said another 40 people were injured in the strikes on the town of Beit Lahiya, which was among the first targets of Israel&s ground invasion nearly a year ago.

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UN condemns ‘horrifying scenes& and ‘atrocities& in Gaza after Israeli airstrike kills up to 87

The United Nations has heavily criticised Israel as the death toll continues to rise from an airstrike in northern Gaza that is said to have killed dozens of Palestinians.

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‘Ali loves being in the Irish Army but I am so worried about him... he is my first-born child, my right-hand man&

The father of a soldier serving with the Irish Defence Forces in Lebanon is both &very worried& and &extremely proud& that his Lebanese-born son is in his homeland to try and help.

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Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after an Israeli strike yesterday. Photo: Reuters

Israeli military strikes killed at least 32 people across the Gaza Strip yesterday, Palestinian health officials said, as forces tightened a siege around hospitals in Jabalia in the north of the enclave. The attacks came after Israeli military said Hezbollah had fired dozens of rockets and several drones into northern Israel yesterday killing one person, with one drone directed at Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu&s holiday home, according to his spokesman.

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IDF uncovers Hezbollah&s vast network of tunnels

Israeli forces have spent much of the past year destroying Hamas&s vast underground network in Gaza. It is now focused on dismantling tunnels and other hideouts belonging to Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon.

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