Lebanon's health ministry said that an Israeli strike Monday -- the third in two days in central Beirut -- killed at least five people in a densely packed neighbourhood.

"The Israeli enemy strike on Zuqaq al-Blat in Beirut... killed five people" and injured 31 others, a ministry statement said, giving an updated toll.

The death toll is likely to rise because two people were missing and some remains recovered from the site were "being verified", the statement said.

Efforts to reach dozens of people trapped under the rubble of a multi-storey residential building in devastated north Gaza carried on Monday, the civil defence agency said, despite persistent fighting.

Rescuers on Sunday said they had pulled at least 34 bodies -- including women and children -- from rubble of the building in the Beit Lahia district after a particularly lethal pre-dawn strike in the area where Israeli forces began a major operation on October 6.

The United Nations and others have decried humanitarian conditions in the area.

Canadian authorities recently foiled an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Irwin Cotler, a former justice minister who has been a strong critic of Tehran, Cotler's organization said Monday.

The 84-year-old was justice minister and attorney general from 2003 to 2006. He retired from politics in 2015 but has remained active with many associations that campaign for human rights around the world.

The Globe and Mail newspaper reported that he was informed on October 26 that he faced an imminent threat -- within 48 hours -- of assassination from Iranian agents.

The European Union's outgoing top diplomat Josep Borrell said Monday he had "no more words" to describe the situation in the Middle East, before chairing his last planned meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers.

"I exhausted the words to explain what's happening in the Middle East," Borrell told reporters, barely concealing his frustration at the EU's failure to weigh on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during his five-year mandate.

Israel staged a new bombing raid on central Beirut Monday, killing five people according to the health ministry, as firefighters said a rocket launched from Lebanon killed one woman in Israel.

The Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza said at least 20 people were killed there in an operation against the looting of aid trucks in the stricken territory.

Israel has staged multiple strikes against central Beirut in recent days, after weeks of air raids aimed at emptying the southern suburbs stronghold of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.

Beneath the blazing Egyptian sun, crowds at the Giza Pyramids gazed up at the ancient wonders, but some had their eyes peeled for a new attraction.

"There he is," one Polish tourist told his wife as they spotted a scrappy dog perched on one of the stones.

They were talking about Apollo, a stray who became an overnight sensation last month after being filmed scaling the Great Pyramid of Khafre, one of the seven wonders of the world.

Lebanon said two Israeli strikes on central Beirut killed six people on Sunday, with Hezbollah confirming its spokesperson was among the dead.

Israel has been heavily bombing Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, since all-out war erupted on September 23, but attacks on central Beirut have been rarer.

The first strike, on Beirut's Ras al-Nabaa district, killed four people, including Hezbollah's media relations chief Mohammed Afif, the group and Israel's military said.

Saudi Arabia has executed more than 100 foreigners this year, according to an AFP tally indicating a sharp increase which one rights group said was unprecedented.

The latest execution, on Saturday in the southwestern region of Najran, was of a Yemeni national convicted of smuggling drugs into the Gulf kingdom, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

That brought to 101 the number of foreigners executed so far in 2024, according to the tally which is compiled from state media reports.

Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike killed at least 34 people including children on Sunday, with dozens more feared buried under the rubble in the Palestinian territory's north.

The Israeli military told AFP its forces had conducted overnight strikes on "terrorist targets" in the Beit Lahia area, sending Palestinians fleeing, according to AFPTV footage.

A series of air raids struck Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday, official media reported and AFPTV footage showed, a day after heavy bombardment as the Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah sites.

At least seven Israeli strikes hit separate locations in the area, the official National News Agency (NNA) said, some sending thick clouds of white smoke over the targets, according to the AFPTV images.