The death toll from an Israeli strike on a Beirut suburb has risen to 37, including seven women and three children, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire. Earlier, Lebanon’s Public Health Minister Firas Abiad told reporters on Saturday that 68 people were also wounded, of whom 15 remained in hospital. Abiad said that search and rescue operations were still ongoing, with the number of casualties likely to rise.

 

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