Israeli warplanes killed scores of people in Lebanon on Saturday and Sunday, with a massacre in the town of Seir el-Gharbiya in the south of the country leaving at least 19 people dead.
The Lebanese National News Agency reported that Israeli aircraft targeted a three-storey building in Seir al-Gharbiya on Sunday morning, totally destroying it and killing 19 people, most of them women and children.
Previous Israeli strikes in the early hours of Sunday morning killed eight people and injured four others in the towns of Tafahta and Jabal al-Butm in south Lebanon overnight on Saturday and Sunday.
On Saturday evening a further eight people were killed in Israeli strikes on south Lebanon - six in Khirbet Salem and two in Kafr Rumman.
The US-Israeli war on Iran spread to Lebanon last Monday, when the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah targeted Israel following the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Israel has launched a deadly and indiscriminate campaign of airstrikes, as well as limited ground operations in response. Prior to the Iran conflict however, Israel was violating a ceasefire reached in November 2024 on a near-daily basis.
The Lebanese health ministry said on Sunday that the total death toll from the Israeli strikes had gone up to 394, while the National News Agency reported that Israel had struck more than twenty towns and villages in southern Lebanon on Saturday evening and night.
Hezbollah said that it carried out rocket attacks against Israel on Sunday, saying this was "in response to the criminal Israeli aggression that affected dozens of Lebanese cities and towns".
It also said its fighters were engaged in clashes with Israeli forces near the border town of Aitaroun.
Earlier this week, Israel ordered all residents of Lebanon south of the Litani River to flee their homes , as well as all residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut.
In Beirut, an Israeli strike on a hotel in central Beirut killed at least four people, the Lebanese health ministry said, with Israel claiming to have targeted commanders from Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
The Lebanese health ministry said an Israeli air strike hit Beirut's city centre, targeting "a hotel room", killing four people and wounding 10 others.
The Israeli military earlier announced it had "begun an additional wave of strikes in Beirut", saying it was targeting the capital's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.
A separate statement later claimed Israeli forces carried out a "precise strike" in Beirut, targeting "key commanders" in the Quds Force, the Guards' foreign operations arm.
An AFP photographer at the bombarded seafront hotel saw one room on the fourth floor with shattered glass and charred walls, while security forces cordoned off the site.
The hotel's area of Raouche is a major tourist destination and had remained untouched by Israeli strikes during the Israel's 2024 ended with a ceasefire in November 2024.
Dozens of panicked guests were fleeing the hotel with their luggage, the photographer said.
Two witnesses said they had heard a loud bang, before ambulances rushed to the scene.
The area along the Mediterranean coast is home to dozens of hotels, now overcrowded with displaced people who fled their homes elsewhere in Lebanon due to the ongoing fighting.
This is the second Israeli attack on a hotel in the Beirut area this week.
On Wednesday, an Israeli air strike hit a hotel in the predominantly Christian neighbourhood of Hazmieh outside Beirut, near the presidential palace and several government ministries and diplomatic missions.
AFPTV live footage from Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday also showed smoke following what appeared to be an air strike. Agencies contributed to this report.