Large blasts level eight-storey building in central Beirut - in pictures

  • Rescue workers search for people at the site of an Israeli air strike that hit central Beirut. AP
    Rescue workers search for people at the site of an Israeli air strike that hit central Beirut. AP
  • Rescue workers carry a body at the site of an Israeli air strike that hit central Beirut. AP
    Rescue workers carry a body at the site of an Israeli air strike that hit central Beirut. AP
  • Rescuers remove the body of a person extracted from the rubble of a levelled building, after an Israeli air strike on Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood. AFP
    Rescuers remove the body of a person extracted from the rubble of a levelled building, after an Israeli air strike on Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood. AFP
  • Civil defence members work as Lebanese army soldiers stand guard in Beirut's Basta neighbourhood. Reuters
    Civil defence members work as Lebanese army soldiers stand guard in Beirut's Basta neighbourhood. Reuters
  • A civil defence member stands at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut's Basta neighbourhood. Reuters
    A civil defence member stands at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut's Basta neighbourhood. Reuters
  • A woman at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut's Basta neighbourhood. Reuters
    A woman at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut's Basta neighbourhood. Reuters
  • Children leave Beirut's Basta neighbourhood. Reuters
    Children leave Beirut's Basta neighbourhood. Reuters
  • Lebanese Army soldiers stand guard at the site of an Israeli strike in the Basta neighbourhood. Reuters
    Lebanese Army soldiers stand guard at the site of an Israeli strike in the Basta neighbourhood. Reuters
  • A man walks away from the site covered in dust after the air strike. Reuters
    A man walks away from the site covered in dust after the air strike. Reuters
  • An elderly man near the site of the Israeli strike. Reuters
    An elderly man near the site of the Israeli strike. Reuters