Israel carried out two attacks on Beirut on Tuesday afternoon, striking the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital and the city's southern entrance, two security sources said.

Israel hit a Beirut apartment block on Monday, killing three members of a Palestinian armed group in its first strike on the city centre since the outbreak of the Gaza war last year.

An Israeli airstrike on central Beirut leveled an apartment building early Monday, hours after Israel hit targets across Lebanon and killed dozens of people as Hezbollah sustained heavy blows to its command structure,