UN urges de-escalation as Beirut attack toll rises

Lebanon’s health minister said Saturday that the death toll from an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb on Friday has risen to 36, including seven women and three children.

Firass Abiad told reporters that 68 people were also wounded of whom 15 remain in hospital, in the deadliest Israeli airstrike on Beirut since the summer 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.

The death toll included Ibrahim Akil, a Hezbollah commander who was in charge of the…