At least 21 people have been killed and eight others injured in a rare Israeli air strike in northern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry says.

The UN human rights office said on Tuesday it had received reports that most of the 22 victims of an Israeli air strike on a building in northern Lebanon were women and children.

The United Nations is calling for an independent investigation into an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in northern Lebanon that killed at least 22 people

The UN called Tuesday for a “prompt, independent and thorough investigation” into an Israeli strike in the northern Lebanese village of Aito which it said had killed 22 people. “What we’re hearing is that amongst the 22 people who were who were killed were 12 women and two children,