(Reporting by Maya Gebeily, Tom Perry, Khalil Ashawi, Mohamed Azakir in Beirut, Laila ​Bassam; Alexander Cornwell, Pesha Magid, Maayan Lubell and Steven Scheer in Jerusalem; Ena

Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over parts of the Lebanese capital on Friday carrying messages urging citizens to push for the disarmament of Hezbollah, dpa reporters and residents witnessed.

Israel struck central Beirut overnight and issued the first ever evacuation order for part of the capital, as Israel vows it will not stop until Hezbollah is defeated and nearly a million people are displaced in Lebanon alone.

Oil prices spiked on Thursday to more than $100 a barrel as concerns over the Iran war intensified.

Israel's military bombed a busy residential and commercial district in central Beirut after issuing a warning for residents to evacuate, saying it was targeting Hezbollah sites. The strikes hit a

March 11 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes targeted an apartment building in central Beirut on Wednesday, Lebanese state media said, marking the second strike in the city in recent days. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military and no immediate reports of casualties.

Intense bombardments continue to hit the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, as Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah in a wave of attacks that began midnight local time Friday. At least 217 people have been killed and 798 others have been wounded in Israeli attacks on Lebanon that began early Monday,

Israel began heavy airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in the southern suburbs of Beirut after the Lebanese militia launched dozens of rockets at Israel, according to an Israeli military official. The off

BEIRUT, March 12 (Reuters) - Israeli airstrikes hit a building twice in central Beirut less than a kilometre from the government headquarters, Reuters video footage showed on Thursday, shortly after the Israeli military said it had begun a new wave of strikes on the Lebanese capital.

Hezbollah fired 200 missiles and drones into Israel in what Israeli media called an integrated attack with Iran, prompting fierce Israeli Defense Forces strikes.

Israel renewed its strikes on Beirut on Thursday, as it threatened to seize territory in Lebanon if Hezbollah did not stop its attacks."If the Lebanese government does not know how to control the territory and prevent Hezbollah