As we reported earlier this morning, an Israeli strike has cut off a road near a Lebanese border crossing, according to the country’s transport minister.

Ali Hamieh said the attack had created a 4m-wide (12ft) crater in the middle of the road near the Masnaa crossing with Syria.

The road has been used by hundreds of thousands of people to flee Israeli bombardments over recent days.

World Food Programme’s director for Lebanon, Matthew Hollingworth, has described the crossing as “very significantly bombed”.

“It will mean that goods that would normally come overland through that crossing – the cheapest, most effective way to bring commodities into the country – will also not be able to be to be received here,” he said on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

Pictures from the scene do appear to show damage at the site.

Israeli military tells part of Beirut to evacuate ‘immediately’

The Israeli military has issued a new alert for residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs to evacuate immediately. 

It said the “new urgent warning” was specifically for those in a building in the Burj al Barajneh neighbourhood.

“You are located near facilities and interests belonging to Hezbollah where the Defence Forces will work against them in the near future,” the Israeli military said.

“For your safety and the safety of your family members, you must evacuate this building and the neighbouring buildings immediately and stay away from them for a distance of at least 500 metres.”