Israel has conducted limited ground incursions into Lebanon and carried out an air strike on central Beirut on Monday for the first time in almost two decades. Two people familiar with the situation said Israeli forces had carried out small-scale operations across the border,

Israel struck an apartment in Beirut on Monday in the first attack within the limits of the Lebanese capital as Israel escalated hostilities against Hezbollah in the region. The strike hit the upper floor of an apartment building in the Kola district of Beirut killing at least two people,