With Israel expanding its bombardment of Lebanon's capital — and vowing to retaliate after Iran's missile attack — eyes have been diverted away from Gaza.

Tehran backs efforts for a ceasefire in Lebanon on the condition it would be backed by Hezbollah and simultaneous with a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said in Beirut on Friday.

Recent airstrikes in southern Beirut targeted "munitions production sites and other terrorist infrastructures," according to an Israel Defense Forces statement published on Wednesday morning. People check the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburb of Shayyah,