Many are feared to be missing under the rubble of Rafiq Hariri University Hospital, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. Israel’s military said it hit a Hezbollah target.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken has held talks with Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving for a visit to the Middle East. Meanwhile, the moment an Israeli air strike destroys a building in Beirut has been caught on camera.

Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday in the Biden administration’s latest effort to calm hostilities in the Middle East, hours after the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah launched a missile attack at an Israeli military base near Tel Aviv that sent residents fleeing into shelters.