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Who is Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s US envoy leading talks with Lebanon?
Israel’s envoy to the US has far-right ties and has engaged in contentious rhetoric during Lebanese peace negotiations.
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Rescuers gather at the site of an Israeli air strike in Beirut. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]
Smoke rises following Israeli air strikes in Beirut. [Anwar Amro/AFP]
Firefighters at the site of an Israeli air strike that hit an apartment building in Beirut. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]
The Israeli military described the bombardment as the largest coordinated strike of the current war. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]
A man stands on a burned vehicle as rescuers work at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut. [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]
Lebanon’s health ministry said that dozens of people had been killed and hundreds of others wounded. [Yara Nardi/Reuters]
Several of the strikes on Beirut landed in busy commercial areas. [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]
Lebanon’s National News Agency said at least five neighbourhoods in Beirut’s central and coastal districts were hit. [Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu]
Smoke rises as rescuers work at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut. [Reuters]
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