At least 14 people were killed and several others injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting towns in Lebanon’s Baalbek and , Lebanese

The war in the Middle East, which has been going on since February 28, has also reached Lebanon, which borders Israel to the north. In southern Lebanon, there are intense clashes between local and Israeli forces.

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health announced that a “16-year-old Syrian boy was killed”, the National News Agency (NNA) reported on Thursday. He was named as Hussein Mohsen al-Khalaf and was killed in a strike on Kfar Dan near Baalbek, the L’Orient news outlet reported.

Footage from the scene, verified by Al Jazeera, showed the debris of a collapsed multi-storey building as rescue workers begin to look through rubble there.

Across Lebanon, the intensification of hostilities, coupled with evacuation orders covering entire districts in Beirut, southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, has placed enormous strain on the country’s health-care system.

We traveled to Baalbek, a historic city in eastern Lebanon where Hezbollah was founded. Once famous for its massive Roman temples, the city has become closely associated with the Iran-backed group that dominates much of the Beqaa Valley.

Several people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a four-storey residential building in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, the state news agency NNA reported early on Wednesday.Rescue teams were working to pull families from beneath the rubble,