The number of people killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday has risen significantly, Lebanese officials say, with several children and women among the dead. All day on Saturday, rescuers searched through the rubble after a high-rise building collapsed and others were partially destroyed in the attack.

Lebanon’s health minister says the death toll from an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb the day before has risen to 31, including seven women and three children

The attacks in southern Lebanon follow others on Hezbollah rocket launchers and infrastructure, after Hezbollah vowed to respond to detonations of pagers and radios.

For millions of Lebanese, this week's mass explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies, with its bloody aftermath, is painfully similar to the horrific explosion four years ago of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates that tore through Beirut's port,