An Israeli strike on a residential building in the Sayeda Zainab district south of the Syrian capital Damascus killed seven civilians on Sunday, the Syrian defence ministry said, in the second such attack in less than a week.

The strike in Jabalya comes after a U.N.-backed report warned that famine was already present, or would soon be, in parts of northern Gaza.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 20 people. It says the strike on Sunday occurred in the village of Aalmat, north of Beirut and far from the areas in the south and east of the country where the Hezbollah militant group has a major presence.

At least 20 children are among the dead in attacks north of Beirut and in northern Gaza, officials rescuers and medics say.