Secretary of State Antony Blinken will speak in Egypt on Wednesday after Israel's pager bombing operation killed several people in Lebanon.

Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip, including five women and four children

Lebanon’s health ministry said Wednesday that at least 20 people were killed and 450 others wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of the country. The explosions came a day after an apparent Israeli attack targeting pagers used by Hezbollah killed at least 12 and wounded nearly 3,

Hezbollah says it is acting in support of Hamas - which is also backed by Iran and proscribed as a terrorist organisation by Israel and many Western countries - and will only stop its attacks once the fighting in Gaza ends.

Another wave of deadly explosions in Lebanon killed at least 20 people and injured hundreds more, including children, Lebanese officials say. This time, handheld radios blew up, including at a funeral outside Beirut for those killed in the first attack.

At least 12 people and thousands of others were injured when explosive pagers detonated across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday.

At least nine people were killed and 300 others injured in the latest wave of explosions related to electronic devices in Lebanon, the Health Ministry in Beirut said on Wednesday in an update to an earlier report.