Areas north of Beirut hit and Tel Aviv targeted for first time, as death toll in Lebanon reaches 560

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Israel bombed the mountains north of Beirut and Hezbollah targeted Tel Aviv for the first time on Wednesday, in a further expansion of the range and scope of the aerial conflict across the Lebanese border.

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled southern Lebanon to escape Israeli attacks on Hezbollah, but the strike on Maaysra, about 60 miles (100km) north of the border, fuelled fears that the intense assault on southern Lebanon could spread to other parts of the country.