The strikes at 4 a.m. destroyed an eight-story building in central Beirut and left a crater in the ground. Also on Saturday, a drone strike killed two people and injured three in the southern port city of Tyre, according to the state-run National News Agency.

Dozens of people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, including 20 who died after a strike flattened a multi-story residential building in central Beirut overnight, according to Lebanese officials.

At least 11 people have been killed and 23 injured in an Israeli strike on central Beirut, Lebanese authorities have said. Lebanon 's state-run National News Agency (NNA) said the attack "completely destroyed" an eight-storey residential building in the Basta neighbourhood early on Saturday.