Israel strikes North of Beirut

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on Sunday killed 20 people including three children in the village of Almat, north of the Capital Beirut. The ministry also said Israeli strikes killed three Hezbollah-affiliated rescuers in the south.

  The Shiite Muslim majority village of Almat is outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds of South Beirut and South and East Lebanon which Israel has heavily bombed since late September in its war against the Iran-backed movement. Earlier, Lebanese official media reported an Israeli strike on a house in the main eastern city of Baalbek, which was not preceded by an Israeli army evacuation warning.