At least 36 people were killed and dozens of others injured in Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon since dawn Wednesday, as regional escalation continued to flare up, Lebanese media reported.

Attacks hit the southern suburbs of Beirut, southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley hours after a US-Iran ceasefire was announced.

Israel carried out strikes in Lebanon on Wednesday, hours after the United States and Iran reached a Pakistani-mediated two-week cease-fire.

Lebanon has been engulfed by the expanding Middle East war, after the Iran-backed group Hezbollah on Monday fired missiles at Israel to avenge the death of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

Lebanon's health ministry says that Israeli strikes during the day killed 182 people, the highest single-day death toll in the Israel-Hezbollah war.

A British military drone flew over eastern Lebanon on the same day Israeli air strikes on Lebanon killed more than 300 people in less than 10 minutes, according to flight-tracking data analysed by Middle East Eye,

Israeli strikes hit several dense commercial and residential areas in central Beirut without warning, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the US-Israeli war with Iran

Within minutes, Lebanon became an open battlefield of fire. More than 100 airstrikes over a 10-minute span targeted, according to the Israeli army, “headquarters and military infrastructure

President Trump is set to address the nation on the Iran war at 6 p.m. Pacific time on Wednesday night. The White House said it would be "an important update."