A powerful Israeli air strike flattened a residential building in central Beirut early Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 63 others, according to witnesses and the Health Ministry's initial count.

The strikes, which destroyed an eight-story building and left a crater in the ground, were the fourth in Beirut in less than a week.

Israeli air strikes killed at least 11 people and injured dozens more in the fourth such attack on Beirut in less than a week. Emergency services in Lebanon were searching for survivors and warned that the death count could rise.