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    The Israeli military levelled a building in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday that it said housed Hezbollah 鈥渇acilities,鈥 sending smoke and debris into the air a few hundred metres from where a spokesperson for the militant group had just briefed journalists about a weekend drone attack that damaged the Israeli prime minister's house.

    The airstrike came 40 minutes after Israel issued an evacuation warning for two buildings in the area that it said were used by Hezbollah. The Hezbollah press conference nearby was cut short, and an Associated Press photographer captured an image of a missile arching towards the building moments before it was destroyed. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

    Hezbollah鈥檚 chief spokesman, Mohammed Afif, said the group was behind the Saturday attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 residence in the coastal town of Caesarea. He hinted that Hezbollah might attempt future strikes on Netanyahu's home. Israel has said neither the prime minister nor his wife were home at the time of the attack.

    Also on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Netanyahu as part of his 11th visit to the region since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. After last week's killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, Blinken is trying to revive efforts to secure a cease-fire in Gaza, but so far both Israel and Hamas appear to be digging in.

    Netanyahu called the meeting with Blinken 鈥渇riendly and productive.鈥

    Blinken landed hours after Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into central Israel, setting off air raid sirens in populated areas and at its international airport, but causing no apparent damage or injuries.

    An Israeli airstrike late Monday in Beirut night destroyed several buildings across the street from the country鈥檚 largest public hospital, killing 18 people and wounding at least 60 others. The Israeli military said it struck a Hezbollah target, without elaborating, and said that it hadn鈥檛 targeted the hospital itself.

    Lebanon鈥檚 Health Ministry said Tuesday that 63 people have been killed over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll over the past year of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah to 2,546.

    Patients receive treatment at the dialysis unit near broken window at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, following an overnight Israeli airstrike near the medical facility in southern Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo / Sarah el-Deeb)

    Hospitals in Lebanon fear being targeted by Israel

    Associated Press reporters visited the Rafik Hariri University Hospital on Tuesday. They saw broken windows in the hospital鈥檚 pharmacy and dialysis center, which was full of patients at the time.

    Staff at another Beirut hospital feared it would be targeted after Israel alleged that Hezbollah had stashed hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in its basement, without providing evidence.

    The director of the Sahel General Hospital denied the allegations and invited journalists to visit the hospital and its two underground floors on Tuesday. AP reporters saw no sign of militants or anything out of the ordinary.

    The few remaining patients had been evacuated after the Israeli military's announcement the night before. The rest had left earlier because of repeated airstrikes in the surrounding neighborhood.

    鈥淲e have been living in terror for the last 24 hours,鈥 hospital director Mazen Alame said. 鈥淭here is nothing under the hospital.鈥

    Many in Lebanon fear Israel could target its hospitals in the same way it has raided medical facilities across Gaza. The Israeli military has accused Hamas and other militants of using hospitals for military purposes, allegations denied by medical staff.

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he boards a plane en route to the Middle East as he departs Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (Nathan Howard/Pool Photo via AP)

    Blinken expected to focus on Gaza

    The U.S. State Department said ahead of Blinken's visit that he would focus on ending the war in Gaza, securing the release of hostages held by Hamas and alleviating the suffering of Palestinian civilians. His meeting Tuesday with Netanyahu stretched for more two hours. He is also expected to meet with President Isaac Herzog, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer.

    U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Blinken underscored to Netanyahu the need for a dramatic increase in the amount of humanitarian aid reaching Gaza, something that Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made clear in a letter to Israeli officials last week. He also stressed the importance of ending the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

    The United States, Egypt and Qatar have brokered months of talks between Israel and Hamas, trying to strike a deal in which the militants would release dozens of hostages in return for an end to the war, a lasting cease-fire and the release of Palestinian prisoners.

    But both Israel and Hamas accused each other of making new and unacceptable demands over the summer, and the talks ground to a halt in August. Hamas says its demands haven't changed following the killing of Sinwar.

    Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon earlier this month in response to near daily rocket attacks from Hezbollah since the start of the war in Gaza. Israel is expected to strike Iran 鈥 which backs both Hamas and Hezbollah 鈥 in response to its ballistic missile attack on Israel earlier this month.

    U.S., Iran step up outreach

    Blinken will also visit a number of Arab countries, likely to include Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

    Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been crisscrossing the region in recent days to try and build support before Israel鈥檚 threatened retaliatory strike. Speaking in Kuwait on Tuesday, he said that Gulf Arab countries had assured him that they wouldn't allow their territory to be used for any Israeli strike.

    The Arab Gulf countries haven't publicly offered such assurances.

    Gulf Arab nations like the UAE and Qatar host major military installations, and there are concerns that an all-out regional war could draw them in. Iran has repeatedly vowed to respond to any Israeli strike.

    War rages in Lebanon and northern Gaza

    The U.S. has also tried to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, but those efforts fell apart as tensions spiked last month with a series of Israeli strikes that killed the militant group鈥檚 top leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and most of his senior commanders.

    Israel is waging another major operation in the already devastated northern region of Gaza. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed over the last two weeks, according to local health authorities.

    In Lebanon, Israel has carried out waves of heavy airstrikes across southern Beirut and the country鈥檚 south and east, areas where Hezbollah has a strong presence. Hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets, missiles and drones into Israel over the past year, including some that have reached the country鈥檚 populous center. Hezbollah began attacking Israel the day after Hamas' deadly raid that sparked the war in Gaza.

    Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took another 250 hostage. Around 100 of the captives are still held in Gaza, a third of whom are believed to be dead.

    Israel鈥檚 retaliatory offensive has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded tens of thousands, according to local health authorities, who don't say how many were combatants but say more than half were women and children. It has also caused major devastation across the territory and displaced around 90% of its population of 2.3 million.

    Sarah El Deeb reported from Beirut. Kareem Chehayeb, Sally Abou AlJoud and Bassem Mroue contributed to this report from Beirut.

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