At least 11 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Friday, including a mother, father, and their three children living in a house, as rescue workers called off the search for survivors a day after an Israeli attack on a civilian. 14 emergency workers and volunteers were killed at the defense center.

The airstrikes come after Lebanon's prime minister apparently urged Iran to persuade the Hezbollah militant group to agree to a ceasefire deal with Israel, which would require the group to withdraw from the Israel-Lebanon border.

Since late September, Israel has stepped up its bombing of Lebanon, vowing to cripple Hezbollah and end its blockade of Israel. The Lebanese health ministry says more than 3,400 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli fire. 80 percent of them have been killed in the past month.

The Israel-Hamas war began when Palestinian terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 250 others. Lebanon's Hezbollah group began firing at Israel on October 8, 2023, in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza.

According to local health officials, Israel's 13-month war in Gaza has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children. Israel has lost about 76 people, including 31 soldiers, in the fighting.

Israeli attacks kill 11 people in Lebanon, including parents and their three children. Lebanon's state media said an Israeli airstrike killed five members of a family in a house in Ain Qana in the southern province of Nabatiyeh. The report said a mother, father, and their three children were killed, but their ages were not given.

Six people were killed and 32 injured in three other Israeli attacks in different parts of Tyre province on Friday, the report said. Nearly 24 hours after an Israeli airstrike destroyed a center for Lebanese emergency workers, officials said they were halting efforts to find any more survivors under the rubble.

The Lebanese Civil Protection Service said in a statement that 14 rescue workers and volunteers were killed on Thursday in Douris, near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon. Human remains requiring DNA identification were also recovered. In an earlier statement on Friday, the General Directorate of Civil Protection condemned the attack, expressed deep regret, and reaffirmed its commitment to its humanitarian mission despite the challenges and sacrifices.

The UN humanitarian agency expressed concern over a growing number of Israeli airstrikes in densely populated areas of Lebanon, calling the casualties and displacement disturbing. In three waves of renewed attacks on Friday, the Israeli military targeted more buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs, triggering explosions in the area called Dahiyah.

In a warning notice on X, an Israeli army spokesman said the airstrikes were targeting Hezbollah facilities and interests. In a post on X, the UN Humanitarian Agency (OCHA) said indiscriminate attacks are prohibited under international law and stressed the importance of avoiding disproportionate harm to civilians.

The visit of Ali Larijani, an adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, comes amid US-led efforts to end the 13-month war that spread to southern and eastern Lebanon as well as the southern suburbs of Beirut in September. The US ambassador to Lebanon has handed a draft of a proposed agreement to end the Israel-Hezbollah war to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, media reported.

Airstrikes on eastern Lebanon city kill 13 Beirut Rescuers were searching for missing people through rubble near the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, where an Israeli attack targeted a civil defense center the night before. According to the Lebanese Civil Defence, 13 bodies were recovered, all of them emergency service agency staff and volunteers. "Some other remains have also been recovered which will require DNA testing," it said in a statement.