Earlier Israel said the Hezbollah missile - which was intercepted - had reached the country's biggest city for the first time.

Israel urged civilians to evacuate parts of eastern Lebanon it says are linked to Hezbollah. Fearing a wider war, world leaders are scrambling to cool tensions.

The death toll in Lebanon from a major outbreak of cross-border strikes between Israel and Hezbollah climbed to 558 including at least 50 children and 94 women, with more than 1,800 injured.

Israel and Hezbollah traded heavy strikes on Sept. 23, marking the deadliest day of conflict in Lebanon in nearly a year.

After almost a year of war against Hamas in Gaza on its southern border, Israel is shifting its focus to the northern frontier.

Hezbollah continues firing rockets and drones at Israel as Lebanese officials say almost 560 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes.

Fresh wave of Israeli strikes pound Lebanon as residents take to the roads to flee south of country. William Christou reports from Beirut for the Guardian Israel carried out an airstrike in Dahieh, the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday afternoon – the second day in a row and third time this week it struck at Lebanon’s capital city.