Overview
- An Israeli strike damaged an apartment block in Beirut’s Aisha Bakkar, the second hit in the city center in four days, widening attacks beyond the Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs.
- Lebanon’s health ministry reports at least 570 dead since March 2, including 86 children, with officials saying at least 21 people were killed in strikes on Wednesday morning.
- Authorities say 780,000 people have registered as displaced, more than 120,000 are in government shelters, and many others are sleeping in cars, stadiums and public spaces.
- The Israeli military has issued evacuation warnings for swathes of southern Lebanon and parts of Beirut, while WHO cites five hospitals out of service, four partially damaged and 43 primary care centers closed.
- Hezbollah says it has attacked Israeli forces and fired rockets, including toward a site south of Haifa, as the UN urges immediate de-escalation and France prepares 60 metric tons of humanitarian aid for Lebanon.