An Israeli drone strike hit a neighborhood in central Beirut on Monday, a Lebanese security source said, the second day in a row that a target within the Lebanese capital has been struck as Israel presses its campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah.

An Israeli airstrike killed four people in a central Beirut neighbourhood on Monday, Lebanon's health ministry said, the second day in a row Israel has hit a target within the capital as it presses it campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Lebanon's health ministry said Israel struck a densely packed Beirut neighbourhood on Monday, killing at least four people, in the third attack in two days on the city's central districts.Several hundreds of metres (yards) away was the site of a similar strike on Sunday,