Israel says roughly 50 aircraft struck more than 100 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon in a devastating 60-second operation that killed 250 operatives.

Lebanon's government condemns as a "flagrant crime" the killing of the paramedics, one of whom featured in a BBC report.

Israel says the truce with Iran does not cover Lebanon. But Tehran says it does, and it has threatened to pull out of peace talks unless the bombing stops.

BEIRUT – A spokesperson for Lebanon's health ministry told Reuters that Israel's strikes across Lebanon on Wednesday had killed "89 martyrs and wounded 700 people." The spokesperson said 12 medics were among the dead in southern Lebanon.

Hundreds have attended funeral prayers for a Lebanese Christian party official known for his anti-Hezbollah stance and his wife who were killed in an Israeli airstrike over the weekend.

Despite hailing negotiations between the two sides as a “historic milestone,” Washington did not call for a halt to Israeli strikes or for a withdrawal from Lebanese territory.

Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war when Iran-backed group Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on 2 March, days after the opening salvo of US-Israeli strikes killed Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

The leader of the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group urged Lebanon on Monday to pull out of direct talks with Israel set to take place in Washington the following d