Recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 40 people and injured more than 50 in the last 24 hours. Israeli bombing has focused on the Lebanese capital since October.
The Israeli airstrikes caused the Death of at least 40 people and 52 injured. in the Baalbeck area of eastern Lebanon, according to a new report from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
A first report of Thursday’s attacks against the Bekaa Valley, also published by the ministry, indicates 22 deaths, including four members of the same family in a village.
According to official data published by the Emergency Operations Center of the Lebanese Ministry of Health on social networks, the cities of Barha and Falawi were the most affected, with 11 and ten fatalities, respectively.
Six people died in Maqna, five in Yunine and three in Al Zahra. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also shelled the municipalities of Brital and Amashki, where four people were killed, and in Al Rafaqa, where one died.
The ministry further announced that at least seven people were killed and 24 wounded in IDF attacks on ten towns in southern Lebanon’s Nabatiye province.
Additionally, the Israeli army attacked the southern province of Lebanon, where at least five people were killed and 26 wounded in nine municipalities. Israel also launched four attacks against Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Israeli bombing has been concentrated in this area of the Lebanese capital since the beginning of October, when troops began the Israeli ground invasion in the south of the country.
The new attacks came on a day when the US special envoy to Lebanon, Amos Hochstein, met in Tel Aviv with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz to insist on a halt. the fire between Tel Aviv and the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.
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Hezbollah claimed on Thursday to have carried out seven attacks against Israeli soldiers in and around Khiam, and official Lebanese media reported that the Israeli army was dynamiting homes and buildings in this southern Lebanese city near the Israeli border.
On Wednesday, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health reported the total number of victims since the start of the war with Israel, more than a year ago, and counted 3,558 dead and 15,123 wounded, most of them civilians.
On the Israeli side, 78 people were killed in attacks launched from Lebanon, of which 47 were civilians (six of them foreigners). In addition, 46 soldiers and a researcher died in combat in the south of the neighboring country.
Source: Observadora