At least 22 people have been killed and 117 others wounded in Israeli air strikes on two densely-populated areas of central Beirut. The air raids in the centre of the Lebanese capital apparently targeted two residential buildings in separate neighbourhoods simultaneously, that the Israeli military (IDF) claimed were affiliated with the militant group Hezbollah. Israeli strikes have more common in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has based many of its operations. Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV reported that an attempt to kill Wafiq Safa, a top security official with the group, had failed. It…