At least 41 people were killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Sunday, including 23 in a raid north of the capital Beirut, the health ministry said.
Israel has intensified its air campaign in recent days, especially in the country's south and the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Further north, an "Israeli enemy strike on Almat in the Jbeil district killed 23 people including seven children," the health ministry said in a statement, adding that body parts had been recovered from the site and were being identified.
The Shiite Muslim-majority village of Almat, about 30 kilometers from Beirut, is located in a mostly Christian region -- outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds.
The strike hit a house shortly after a Hezbollah member arrived there for a visit, a security source told AFP, adding that he was injured and later died in hospital.
AFPTV footage showed rescuers rummaging with their bare hands through the wreckage of a house that had been completely razed, pulling out bodies wrapped in blankets while an excavator moved the rubble.
A pile of broken concrete and the twisted metal structure that made up the roof lay at the bottom of a staircase leading to the destroyed house.
Hezbollah lawmaker Raed Berro, one of the members of parliament representing the Jbeil district, at the scene denied Israeli claims that Hezbollah members or weapons were embedded among civilians.
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