Lebanon’s BeirutAs diplomats rushed to mediate a cease-fire, Israeli airstrikes in central Beirut on Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured scores more.
The death toll, according to Lebanon’s civil defense, is tentative because rescuers are still searching the debris for survivors. In less than a week, the strikes were the fourth to hit the capital of Lebanon.
Following U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein’s trip to the area this week to try to negotiate a cease-fire agreement to stop the more than 13 months of warfare between Israel and Hezbollah—which has escalated into full-fledged war in the last two months—the escalation follows.
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