Israeli warplanes continued to pound Lebanon early Tuesday as an overnight strike at a Lebanese army barracks at Jomhour area east of Beirut killed 10 Lebanese soldiers and wounded dozens of others, said media reports.

Lebanese military and security officials were quoted as saying that some 10 Lebanese soldiers were killed and 40 others wounded by an overnight Israeli air strike on a military base in Beirut's eastern suburb of Jamhour.

The base was targeted several times during the night, including some occurred during rescue operations, said the state ANI news agency.

Israeli warplanes also raided another Lebanese army base in Kfarshima, southeast of Beirut, it was reported.

Medics and police sources said at least 51 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Monday alone, pushing the death toll from Israel's offensive launched on July 12 to 230, most of them are civilians.