A top Iranian official held talks Friday with Lebanese leaders on the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah , which came as the United States continued actively pushing both sides to agree to a new cease-fire deal.
The visit of Ali Larijani, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, to the Lebanese capital was punctuated with a renewed aerial attack by Israel on the southeastern edge of the city.
An image captured by an Associated Press photographer showed what appeared to be an 11-story residential building in the Tayouneh area, few kilometers miles from central Beirut, about to be hit by a bomb, then bursting into flames.
There were no immediate reports of casualties but the bomb hit a lower level of the building, turning much of it to rubble. The Israeli military had issued a warning ahead of the attack, claiming it was a facility that belonged to Hezbollah.
The U.S. has been trying to broker an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, which came as the 13-month war with Hamas broadened in September into southern and eastern Lebanon as well as Beirut's southern suburbs.
