The deadliest strikes hit the Bekaa Valley, which is home to the historic city of Baalbek. At least 40 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the historic city of Baalbek, in Lebanon’s east, and the surrounding area, Lebanon’s health ministry said late on Wednesday as strikes also pounded an area south of the capital.

At least 60 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the town of Beit Lahia in the north of the strip, an official at Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says. Rescuers said a five-storey residential building was hit,