Fourteen people have been killed and dozens injured after Israel's military said it carried out a "targeted strike" on the Lebanese capital Beirut
Israel says it killed Hezbollah's operations commander Ibrahim Aqil in the attack, alongside other senior members of the group's elite Radwan unit
It is Israel's third strike on Beirut this year
Cross-border exchanges have escalated this week after dozens were killed in a series of exploding device attacks on Hezbollah members, which were widely blamed on Israel
We're seeing more images of smoke rising over southern Beirut after the Israeli air strike.
So far there has been no confirmation of exactly what was hit.
We'll update you with details as soon as we hear more.
Image source, Reuters
Hugo Bachega
Middle East correspondent, in Beirut
Images from Dahieh show plumes of smoke over the area, which is a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut.
Initial reports suggest a religious and social centre was hit.
Image source, ReutersThe Israel Defense Forces has just confirmed it has carried out "targeted strike" on the Lebanese capital Beirut.
The IDF does not provide any further detail, other than to say there is no change in its instructions for Israeli civilians to keep themselves safe.
We're seeing new images from northern Israel, where firefighters are attempting to extinguish flames following the series of Hezbollah rocket attacks from Lebanon today.
The pictures were taken near the border, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights:
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Image source, ReutersNafiseh Kohnavard
BBC Persian Middle East correspondent, Beirut
The day here in Beirut began with Israeli fighter jets flying low over the city.
For an hour, these jets have were conducting manoeuvres in the skies above us, even over areas that are predominantly Christian. There is a general belief that if war breaks out, these neighbourhoods will be safe.
The sight of Israeli warplanes over Lebanese cities, including the capital, is nothing new. However, in recent days, as tensions between Hezbollah and Israel have reached a peak, these flights have become more worrisome than ever.
In recent months, these jets have occasionally broken the sound barrier over Beirut and other cities, creating loud sounds that sound like bombings, but they are actually sonic booms.
Although Beirut residents are not unfamiliar with these sonic booms, yesterday everyone clearly felt that something had changed.
During Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah speech yesterday, several Israeli jets flew so low that in front of the hospital where we were covering the condition of those injured in the pager explosions, everyone thought a bombing was imminent.
A few seconds later, the sound of four massive sonic booms shook the city.
Meanwhile in Gaza, Israeli forces have killed at least 14 Palestinians in the latest tank and air strikes on north and central areas, according to medics.
Reuters news agency reports that officials said Israeli tanks shelled the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, and an air strike hit a house in Gaza City in the north.
Residents also told Reuters, external that tanks advanced further into northwest Rafah - near the border with Egypt.
The Israeli military has said that forces operating in Rafah had in past weeks killed hundreds of Hamas militants, located tunnels and explosives and destroyed military infrastructure.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says at least 41,270 Palestinians - including 11,355 children - have been killed there since 7 October, with more than 95,000 others injured. The UN says 689 Palestinians, external have been killed in the West Bank since 7 October.
"The outrageous death of children is almost historically unique," vice chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child told reporters, adding "these are extremely grave violations that we do not often see".
In Israel, authorities say around 1,200 people were killed in the Hamas attacks on 7 October, with 251 people taken to Gaza as hostages. Israel's official figure for those held in Gaza is now 101 - including four people taken hostage in 2014 and 2015. Two of those people are believed to have died.
A little earlier, we reported on smoke rising over the the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila.
In the last few minutes, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it targeted a Hezbollah fighter who "entered a military structure" of the of the group's in the area of Kfar Kila.
In a post on X, external, the IDF also adds that Air Force fighter jets attacked military buildings used by Hezbollah in a number of areas in southern Lebanon.
The Israel Defense Forces has just confirmed that around 140 rockets have been launched at northern Israel so far today.
Air defences intercepted "some" of the 120 launches, the IDF says, which were fired at the occupied Golan Heights, Safed and the Upper Galilee areas.
Fire and rescue services in several areas are extinguishing blazes caused by fallen rockets, the IDF says.
Around 20 more rockets were fired at Meiron and Netua, it adds. "Most fell on open areas" and no injuries were reported from these attacks, it adds.
As we've reported earlier, the Israeli police have reported one person who sustained minor injuries in the north, but did not specify exactly where or whether they were hurt by debris or fires.
As we just been reporting, Hezbollah says it has launched a number of attacks on army sites in northern Israel. Here's more on what the group claims to have targeted.
Hezbollah says it targeted Israel's missile and artillery battalion at the Yoav barracks and the air and missile defence headquarters in Kila. The air defence missile base in Beria was also a target, it says.
The group also says it targeted two army sites in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Update 23 September 2024: An earlier version of this post contained an error when referring to Lebanon’s border which has now been removed
A little earlier, authorities in Israel reported a "minor" injury after rockets were fired into the northern region.
In a post on Telegram, external, the Israel Police adds there were "several" falls in a number of locations and firefighters are responding to fires.
Meanwhile in Lebanon, a photo shows smoke rising over the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila - amid ongoing cross-border strikes between the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah.
We will bring you more on this as we get it.
Image source, ReutersIn the last few minutes, Hezbollah has said it fired a number of rocket attacks into northern Israel.
The Iran-backed group said it was targeting army sites.
As a reminder, this comes after Israel launched intensive overnight airstrikes in southern Lebanon, with the military saying its warplanes targeting Hezbollah rocket launchers.
A barrage of rockets has been fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, the Israeli military says.
Alarms have been activated in the north.
Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent, reporting from Israel
At a checkpoint east of the northern city of Qiryat Shemona, we find two Israeli soldiers donning their flak jackets and helmets.
An alert has just been sounded and we’re told to wait by a nearby bomb shelter.
The hills that mark the border rise up behind the city, Lebanon just out of sight.
Soon we hear a succession of low booms, some way off. “Incoming”, the soldiers tell us.
They won’t let us past, so we double back, heading south along semi-deserted roads, rarely more than three miles from the border.
On the radio there are reports of further alerts, this time on the Golan Heights, off to the east.
Plumes of dark smoke can be seen rising on the hills that rise above the lush Hula Valley.
This is what life has been like up here in the north for almost a year.
Russia is "deeply concerned" by the latest developments in Lebanon, according to the country's foreign ministry spokeswoman.
Maria Zakharova told reporters that any large-scale military operation in Lebanon would have the "most devastating consequences for the security of the entire Middle East", adding "such a catastrophic scenario must be avoided".
Image source, ReutersThe United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon urges de-escalation following an increase in hostilities.
Its Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) had witnessed "a heavy intensification of the hostilities across the Blue Line" and throughout its area of operations, spokesperson Andrea Tenenti told Reuters.
"We are concerned at the increased escalation across the Blue Line and urge all actors to immediately de-escalate," he adds.
"I saw people without hands, without eyes," Sara Rammal, who now lives in Beirut, tells the BBC.
She was forced to leave her home in southern Lebanon shortly after Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October and is unsure when she'll be able to return, with Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in the region.
Rammal further describes what she witnessed in Beirut: "I saw a father carrying his seven-year-old kid bleeding with his hand cut off. He was rushing him to the hospital."
She says she knows healthcare workers who died "because their pagers were tampered with by Israel".
Israel hasn't claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Lebanon's Minister for Economy and Trade says this week's "really outrageous" attacks have "deeply affected" the country's economy.
It's been a “very intense week for Lebanon on all fronts,” Amin Salam tells the BBC World Service Newsday programme.
The local economy has already been suffering for “quite a while with one issue after another," he says, adding the pager and walkie-talkie explosions “add another layer” that “stops growth, stops any flow of cash related to investment, stops any visits to Lebanon from tourists”.
On foreign investment, Salam says it is "very difficult to give comfort and assurance, especially when investment requires stability and security".
The BBC World Service Newsday programme has been sent a voice message from a listener in Lebanon.
"It's like if we were inside a horror movie, a long terrifying dream," they say, adding Lebanese citizens have become "hostages".
The listener says people "do not have the means to survive, neither materially or morally", and Lebanese politicians "have failed us".
"Everyone should know that the Lebanese people want peace. [We] do not want war, no-one, nobody wants war," they add.
"Please, we ask the international communities, we ask the Arab world, to help us to implement the international resolutions."
An Israeli resident who was evacuated from the country's border with Lebanon 11 months ago says she doesn't know when she'll be able to return home.
Ortal Be'eri says Hezbollah started attacks on 7 October - the same day Hamas crossed the Gaza border and attacked Israel - and she left her home that evening.
Be'eri says her home was left "broken" three months ago after a rocket hit close to it - and currently lives with her partner and two children, aged nine and 10, in a hotel.
"It's hard for me to see them and me going back home where the situation is continuing," she tells BBC, saying her children "know what it feels like to have sirens and to hear rockets fall around you".