BEIRUT ¨C Israel stepped up airstrikes on Beirut on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and destroying a 10-story building near the city center in the third week of its war with Iran-backed Hezbollah, Lebanese authorities said.
In a further escalation, Israeli warplanes began striking bridges over the Litani River that link southern Lebanon to the rest of the country, destroying at least two of them, Lebanese state media said. ?The Israeli military said it would target bridges on the Litani to prevent Hezbollah transferring fighters and weapons, and reiterated a warning for residents to leave the south.
The ?Hezbollah-Israel conflict ?has become the deadliest spillover of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran since the Iran-backed group fired at Israel in support of Tehran ?on March 2, with more than 900 people killed in Lebanon and 1 million displaced.
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