The Lebanese Health Ministry has said Israel’s bombing campaign in Lebanon killed 95 people and wounded 156 as Israeli strikes continue to hit targets across the country.
“The Israeli enemy’s raids in the past twenty-four hours on towns and villages in southern Lebanon, Nabatieh, Bekaa, Baalbek-Hermel, and Mount Lebanon resulted in a total death toll of 55 people and the injury of 156,” the ministry wrote on X on Wednesday, just after midnight Beirut time.
According to AFP, Lebanon’s disaster agency said earlier that Israeli operations in Lebanon have killed 1,873 people since October 8, 2023. Over 1,000 have been killed, including many civilians, since Israel dramatically ramped up its bombing campaign on September 23.
Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday continued to target the capital, Beirut. According to Middle East Eye, Israel targeted a residential building in Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh and a building near Kuwait’s embassy in the city.
The airstrikes came as the Israeli military said its forces were carrying out limited ground raids in southern Lebanon, although both Hezbollah and the Lebanese military denied Israeli troops entered the country.
Israel told people in southern Lebanon to evacuate an area that stretches to 36 miles from the Israeli border, adding to the massive displacement crisis caused by the Israeli military operations. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said earlier this week that one million people may have been displaced.
Photo: The destruction at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on October 1, 2024 © Photo by Fadel Itani / NurPhoto via Reuters Connect.
Source: AntiWar.
