Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike hit the central area of Lebanon's capital on Thursday, the third such attack on Beirut since Israel escalated its air campaign last month, with the health ministry confirming at least 22 deaths and 117 injuries.
Israel has repeatedly pounded southern Beirut suburbs, the bastion of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, bastion for more than two weeks but strikes have rarely hit in the city's centre.
"An enemy strike targeted the area of Ras al-Nabaa-Nweiri" residential neighbourhoods, adding that ambulances rushed to the targeted sites.
Meanwhile in Gaza, an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in central Gaza killed at least 28 people - including women and children - on Thursday, while three hospitals in the north were told to evacuate putting patients' lives at risk, medics say.
The strike, in which many more were wounded, happened in the city of Deir al-Balah, where a million people have taken shelter after fleeing fighting elsewhere after more than a year of war.