With thousands of tonnes of trash piling in capital city Beirut's streets ... had been catering to neighborhoods of Beirut and Mount Lebanon — almost half of the country's 4 million strong population ...

Lebanon has already started installing fiber optics in big cities, and 85 percent of the Lebanese population will have access to the service by the end of 2017, Telecoms Minister Boutros Harb said.

The strikes, which occurred at around 4am local time, came after a day of heavy bombardment of Beirut's southern suburbs and the southern coastal city ... a quarter of Lebanon's population.