The Lebanese Ministry of Health said that 58 people were killed and dozens were injured in a preliminary toll of Israeli raids that targeted several areas of the country, while the Israeli army announced the interception of a drone and a missile that targeted Haifa and Safed.

The Ministry of Health stated that among the victims were 20 people and 66 injured in an updated toll of the Israeli raid that targeted the Basta area in the capital Beirut, in addition to the destruction of 5 buildings.

A Lebanese security source denied to Al Jazeera the presence of a Hezbollah leader in the building targeted by the Israeli raid on Al-Basta.

The Lebanese News Agency reported that Beirut woke up on Saturday morning to a horrific massacre, as Israeli warplanes completely destroyed an 8-storey residential building on Al-Mamoun Street in the Basta area after bombing it with 5 missiles.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health also said that among the dead were 14 people in the raids that targeted the city of Tyre and the towns of Ain Baal and Roumin, in addition to 24 dead in raids on the Bekaa region, including 4 children.

The ministry pointed out that 3,670 people were killed and 15,413 injured since the start of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon.

In the same context, Israeli raids targeted the southern suburb of Beirut on Saturday, and the Israeli army said in a statement that it targeted "Hezbollah command centers and other infrastructure" in the southern suburb.

Al Jazeera's correspondent said that Israel launched an airstrike on the town of Mashghara in the western Bekaa, east of Lebanon.

On Saturday, Israeli drones pursued paramedics in the Tyre district in southern Lebanon, before killing two of them and wounding four others.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health said that an Israeli drone targeted an ambulance team on Saturday while it was heading to the town of Ain Baal in Tyre district to complete its rescue work.

She added that when a second ambulance team rushed to rescue the injured from the first team, an Israeli drone also pursued it and targeted it, which led to the deaths of two people and the injury of four from both teams.

According to the Ministry of Health figures, during the current war on Lebanon and until the end of Friday, Israel targeted 94 medical and emergency centers, 40 hospitals, and 250 health sector vehicles, and carried out attacks on 67 hospitals and 229 emergency associations.

Drone and missile

On the other hand, the Israeli army stated that it intercepted a drone off the coast of Haifa launched from Lebanon.

Channel 12 reported that air defenses intercepted a missile in the sky of the city of Safed in the Upper Galilee.

The Israeli Home Front Command also announced that sirens would be sounded in Metula, Kiryat Shmona and their surroundings in the Galilee Finger to warn of falling rockets.

Hezbollah said it had fired a barrage of rockets at the settlements of Kfar Blum and Ilit Hashahar.

The party also announced that it was engaged in clashes with Israeli forces on the northeastern outskirts of the town of Al-Bayada in southern Lebanon.