We’re ending our live coverage here, but will return if there is breaking news to bring you. If you want to read more on the strikes in Beirut and the crisis in the Middle East, the latest report from our correspondents on the ground is here:
Lebanon’s government said on Wednesday at least 28 people had been killed by Israeli strikes in the previous 24 hours, raising the total death toll since October 2023 to 2,574.
Arriving in Lebanon for talks on ending hostilities, Germany’s foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said providing arms to Israel posed a dilemma:
On the one hand, Israel is attacked every day and not supporting it would mean that people are not [being] protected ... On the other, it is also Germany’s responsibility to stand up for international humanitarian law.”
Baerbock later warned that a complete destabilisation of Lebanon would be “fatal for the most religiously diverse society in the region.”
Israel’s army has been able to weaken Hezbollah significantly. Now we need a diplomatic solution.”
