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Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

Lebanese civil defence recovers 17 bodies after Israeli airstrikes

Emergency responders recovered 17 bodies and rescued 12 injured people overnight as Israeli air strikes on Lebanon continued.

Rescue teams were still searching for a missing girl at the site of an air strike that destroyed two residential buildings in Beirut's Basta neighbourhood on Thursday evening, according to the official National News Agency.

Civil defence crews also responded to multiple fires in the Bekaa Valley, Baalbek and Nabatieh caused by Israeli attacks.