Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on Sunday killed 23 people, including seven children, in the village of Almat north of the capital Beirut.AFPTV footage showed rescuers rummaging with their bare hands through the wreckage of a house that had been completely razed,

At least 20 children are among the dead in attacks north of Beirut and in northern Gaza, officials rescuers and medics say.

The strike in Jabalya comes after a U.N.-backed report warned that famine was already present, or would soon be, in parts of northern Gaza.

Israel says it sent forces into Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in the north of the enclave to fight Hamas militants waging attacks from there and to prevent them from regrou