By Abdelaziz Boumzar, Emilie Madi, Jana Choukeir and Alexander Cornwell BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, March 11 (Reuters) - An Israeli strike hit an apartment block in central Beirut on Wednesday, Lebanese authorities said,

British journalist Steve Sweeney was wounded in Lebanon after an Israeli missile detonated next to him during a news report. The post WATCH: Alleged Israeli Strike Lands Right Next to Russian State Media Reporter first appeared on Mediaite.

“Any attempt to portray this as an intentional strike that was targeting journalists is absurd and far removed from reality,” he said, underscoring that the IDF operates against militant threats.

An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed a dozen medical staff at a clinic, Lebanese health authorities said Saturday, after Iran-backed Hezbollah’s leader said his group was ready for a long confrontation with Israel.

Israel and Hezbollah are rapidly escalating a new war that is hitting Beirut and pushing toward a wider ground fight.

By Tala Ramadan BEIRUT, March 17 (Reuters) - Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and two were wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the city of Nabatieh, in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese army said on Tuesday,

The attack, along with a fatal shooting at Virginia’s Old Dominion University, raises fears of retaliation on U.S. soil over the war in Iran.