At least 11 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Beirut’s central neighbourhood of Basta on Saturday morning, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.
The ministry added that 63 people were injured in the strikes and rescuers were still removing the rubble.
The strikes occurred at 4am local time, destroying an eight-storey building in the densely populated area and damaging several other buildings nearby, state-run National News Agency reported.
Israel used bunker-buster bombs in the strike, leaving a deep crater, the agency said. Vast areas of Beirut smelt strongly of explosives hours after the attack.
The target of the strikes remains unclear.
Images and videos circulating online showed chaotic scenes with rescuers rushing to the site amid smoke and wailing ambulances.
The strikes come after a day of bombardment in the capital’s southern suburbs as Israel fights the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
On Friday, air strikes on southern Beirut demolished an 11-storey building, as Israel kept up its bombardment of strongholds of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
