Death toll from Israeli air strike on Beirut rises to 31

A Lebanese soldier stands guard at the site of Friday’s Israeli strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs (Bilal Hussein/AP)

The death toll from an Israeli air strike on a Beirut suburb has risen to 31, including seven women and three children, Lebanon’s health minister said.

Firass Abiad told reporters that 68 people were also wounded, of whom 15 remain in hospital, in the deadliest Israeli air strike on Beirut since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.