Targets hit sit between several UNESCO heritage sites,including some associated with Phoenicians and Crusaders.
Hezbollah has taken responsibility for the weekend attack,but images of the daring move only just cleared Israeli censors.
At least 15 branches of the bank-like institution Al-Qard Al-Hasan have been hit in southern Beirut.
Meanwhile in Gaza rescuers are still recovering people from the rubble after an Israeli attack that killed dozens.
The Israeli government said a drone targeted the prime minister’s house in northern Israel on Saturday.
World leaders had expressed hopes for a ceasefire after Hamas militant leader Yahya Sinwar’s death. Israel,Hamas and Hezbollah have all said they will continue fighting.
Matthew Knott and Kate Geraghty have spent eight days in Beirut,where bullet-holes in palm trees among the glitzy restaurants tell the tale of a broken city.
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Israel “intentionally targeted a meeting of the municipal council to discuss the city’s service and relief situation”.
The escalation of hostilities in the Middle East that is alarming global leaders is working in Netanyahu’s political favour at home.
As the world looks on in horror at events unfolding in the Middle East,Herald journalists Kate Geraghty and Matthew Knott,who have just arrived in Israel,talk about what it’s like to fly into a conflict zone.
Matthew Knott and Kate Geraghty visit the north Lebanon village of Aitou,where at least 22 people were killed by a strike far from the Hezbollah strongholds.