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A huge Israeli strike has decimated a residential building in the centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

Meanwhile Israel continues to strike targets in Beirut, Lebanon, where over 2,500 people have reportedly been killed

Israel expanded its targets in its war with the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 18 people in its first strike on the Christian-majority town of Aitou in the north, the Lebanese Red Cross said.

Israel does not have confirmation that the potential successor to the former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has died, a government spokesperson said.

Nearly a year after Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah backed the October 7 Hamas massacre that turned a simmering conflict into an all-out war, the Israeli military has shifted from active defense to offensive operations.

Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut on Friday, vowing to press on with a new military campaign until it is able to secure the area around the Lebanese border.