Lebanon's civil defence service has condemned an Israeli strike that killed 14 rescue workers, expressing "deep regret" after the strike on an emergency response centre.
Human remains that require DNA identification were also recovered from the site of the strike, which happened on Thursday, local time.
The search for survivors beneath the rubble near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon in the village of Douris was called off on Friday by officials.
Rescue worker Suzanne Karkaba's father Ali was killed in the strike, and she told AFP she had to identify him by his fingers.
"My dad was sleeping here with them. He helped people and recovered bodies to return them to their families … But now it's my turn to pick up the pieces of my dad," Ms Karkaba said with tears in her eyes.
In an earlier statement on Friday, the General Directorate of Civil Defense condemned the attack and reaffirmed its commitment to its humanitarian mission despite the challenges and sacrifices.
The Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment on Friday why the centre was struck.
Lebanon's civil defence forces have no affiliation with the militant group Hezbollah, and provide crucial rescue and medical services in one of the world's most war-torn nations.
Within 24 hours, another Israeli air strike killed five members of the same family in a home in Ain Qana in the southern province of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon's state media said on Friday.
The report said a mother, father and their three children were killed but didn't provide their ages.
Three other Israeli strikes killed six people and wounded 32 in different parts of Tyre province on Friday, also in south Lebanon, the report said.
The UN humanitarian agency voiced concern over the escalating toll of Israeli air strikes in densely populated areas of Lebanon, calling the daily casualties and displacement "deplorable".
Human Rights Watch reported in late October that Israeli strikes had killed at least 163 health and rescue workers across Lebanon over the past year, with 158 ambulances and 55 hospitals damaged.
Israel targets Beirut again
In three waves of renewed strikes on Friday, the Israeli military hit more buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs, setting off explosions in the area known as Dahiyeh.
In a warning notice on X, a spokesman for the Israeli military said that the air strikes were targeting "Hezbollah facilities and interests," without providing further details.
Civil defence workers at the site of an Israeli air strike in Beirut's southern suburbs. (AP: Hassan Ammar)
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
In a post on X, the UN humanitarian agency known as OCHA said indiscriminate attacks are prohibited under international law and stressed the importance of avoiding disproportionate harm to civilians.
The air strikes come as Lebanon's prime minister apparently urged Iran to convince the Hezbollah militant group to agree to a ceasefire deal with Israel, which could require the group to pull back from the Israel-Lebanon border.
Since late September, Israel dramatically escalated its bombardment of Lebanon, vowing to cripple Hezbollah and end its barrages in Israel.
More than 3,400 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli fire, 80 per cent of them in the past month, Lebanon's Health Ministry says.
The fighting has left more than 90 people dead in Israel, including 47 soldiers, according to the Israeli government.
Israeli strikes on Damascus
Syrian state-run media said Israel struck the upscale Mazzeh district of Damascus on Friday, the second such attack in two days to hit the neighbourhood home to embassies, security headquarters and United Nations offices.
Attacks blamed on or claimed by Israel have intensified in Syria, including in areas near the Lebanese border mainly targeting bastions of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah.
Israel went to war with the Iran-backed group — which is also allied with Syria — in September following nearly a year of cross-border hostilities sparked by the Gaza war.
"Israeli aggression targets Mazzeh area in Damascus," the official SANA news agency said on Friday, after reporting a deadly Israeli strike on the district a day earlier.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the strikes targeted a "military housing complex" in Mazzeh.
Israeli strikes on Thursday in and around Damascus killed 23 people, according to the Britain-based monitor, which has a network of sources inside Syria.
Thursday's strike on Mazzeh killed 13 people, including civilians and Iran-backed fighters, while an attack on the outskirts of Damascus killed 10 Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants, the monitor said.
Islamic Jihad has fought alongside Hamas against Israeli forces in Gaza and has been at war with Israel before.
Israeli authorities, who rarely comment on individual attacks in Syria, claimed responsibility for Thursday's strike, saying they targeted Islamic Jihad.
'Immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire' demanded by UN draft resolution
The UN Security Council's 10 non-permanent members have circulated a draft resolution demanding "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" in Gaza.
The draft resolution, which was sent to the council's five permanent members on Thursday, reiterates the council's demand "for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages" seized during Hamas' surprise terrorist attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, that killed about 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.
The UN Security Council's non-permanent members have called for an immediate end to fighting in Gaza.
Israel says about 100 people are still being held, though not all are believed to be alive.
Israel's full-scale invasion of the territory has since killed 43,500 people, according to Gaza health authorities, and destroyed much of the enclave's infrastructure, forcing most of the 2.3 million population to move several times.
The council's 10 non-permanent members — Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland, Algeria, Guyana, South Korea, Sierra Leone and Slovenia — collectively agreed to the draft resolution.
The US, Israel's closest ally, will be crucial to whether the Security Council adopts the resolution.
The four other permanent members — Russia, China, Britain and France — are expected to support it or abstain.
The draft also demands immediate access for Gaza's civilian population to humanitarian aid and services essential for their survival.
It "underscores" that the UN agency helping Palestinian refugees known as UNRWA "remains the backbone of the humanitarian response in Gaza."
Israel's parliament passed two laws last month banning UNRWA's operations in the Palestinian territories, which take effect in 90 days.
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