Reports of more Israeli strikes in southern Beirutpublished at 22:32 British Summer Time 8 October
We will shortly be pausing our live coverage. Here is some of what's happened today:
- Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari says the force cannot confirm if former Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's potential replacement, Hashem Safieddine, was killed in an air strike last week - and that they are still looking into the results of the operation
- It comes after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the IDF "took out" Safieddine
- The Lebanese National News Agency says more strikes have hit southern Beirut this evening and four residential buildings have "collapsed"
- The Lebanese health ministry says 36 people have been killed in Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours
- Hezbollah has fired more than 100 rockets at the northern Israeli cities of Haifa and Krayot, according to the IDF
- The Israel Defense Forces says at least 50 Hezbollah members were killed in a series of strikes in southern Lebanon on Monday
- The IDF has expanded its ground operation in Lebanon to the south-west. It had previously been focussed in the south-east
- IDF soldiers have been pictured raising Israeli flags on the south side of the Lebanese village Maroun Al Ras
- In Syria, an Israeli strike in the capital Damascus has killed seven people, according to the country's defence ministry
- And US officials say a meeting between the Israeli defence minister and US defence secretary at the Pentagon on Wednesday has been postponed