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Death toll from Israeli air strikes on Lebanon rises as Blinken and Netanyahu meet
An excavator sifts through the rubble as rescue workers search for victims at the site of Israeli air strikes that destroyed buildings, facing the city's main government hospital in a densely-populated neighbourhood, in southern Beirut, Lebanon, October 22, 2024

THE death toll from Israeli air strikes late on Monday that destroyed several buildings near Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut rose to 18 today.

Rescue efforts were ongoing as the Morning Star went to print and air strikes continued to target Beirut and other regions in Lebanon.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting Tel Aviv, where he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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