A missile strike by Israel on a building in Lebanon's capital Beirut was captured in a stunning series of pictures by photographer Fadel Itani.

The state must finally assert its authority over Lebanon’s parallel army, writes Fouad Makhzoumi, a politician

For families displaced by Israeli airstrikes, the joy that usually marks the end of Ramadan has been replaced by uncertainty and hardship.

An Israeli airstrike hit Beirut's Bachoura neighbourhood in the centre of the city on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, with a loud explosion heard in the area after the Israeli military warned residents to evacuate a building ahead of the strike.

An Israeli airstrike destroyed an apartment building in the Bachoura district of Beirut early on Wednesday, killing at least six people, according to Lebanese authorities. View on euronews

Beirut burns, civilians die, and Iran enters the war. The Gaza Genocide is now a regional crisis threatening global stability.

Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, expanded the military’s list of targets in Lebanon to include all bridges over the country’s Litani River, a focal point of the renewed Israel-Hezbollah conflict.