Israeli strikes hit Beirut despite US-Iran two-week truce

Insights

• Air strikes and shelling struck central Beirut and southern towns including Tyre, Nabatieh and Sidon.
• Lebanon reported at least eight killed in Sidon and additional deaths near a hospital after a dawn strike.
• Attacks hit the densely populated Barbour area of Beirut and damaged a mosque and multiple buildings.
• The strikes came hours after mediators announced an immediate two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran that was said to include Lebanon.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the ceasefire does not apply to Lebanon and operations against Hezbollah would continue.
• RT correspondent Steve Sweeney and his cameraman Ali Rida Sbeity were caught up in the Beirut strikes while reporting.