Lebanon’s Health Ministry has reported that Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Monday killed at least 95 people as the relentless bombing campaign continues.
“The Israeli enemy’s raids in the past twenty-four hours on towns and villages in southern Lebanon, Nabatieh, Bekaa, Baalbek-Hermel, and the capital Beirut resulted in a total death toll of ninety-five people and 172 injuries,” the ministry wrote on X early Tuesday.
Since Israel dramatically escalated its bombing campaign last week, Israeli strikes have killed over 1,000 people in Lebanon. Many civilians have been killed, and the Health Ministry said nearly a quarter of the dead are women and children.
Reuters reported on Monday that an Israeli airstrike on September 25 hit two houses in Maaysrah, a village north of Beirut in the Keserwan mountains. Displaced families gathered in the houses because the village had never been attacked by Israel in previous wars.
But on September 25, Israeli bombs struck two houses in Maaysrah, killing 16 people, including 14 women and children. Thirty people were wounded in the strike, about half of them children.
Local officials told Reuters that one house was the residence of a Hezbollah fighter who was killed in battle in August, and a former fighter who had lost a leg in battle was there at the time, but no active combatants were present.
Residential homes were Israel’s primary target when its escalation began last week. Israeli officials claimed homes were being used to store Hezbollah weapons but offered no actual evidence for the claim. As a result of the strategy, Lebanese Health Minister Dr. Firass Abiad said the “overwhelming majority, if not all,” of the 558 people killed by Israeli airstrikes on September 23 were civilians.
Photo: A view shows houses destroyed in an Israeli strike that used to host displaced people from three families and their local relatives in Maaysrah, north of Beirut, Lebanon, September 26, 2024 © Reuters / Louisa Gouliamaki.
Source: AntiWar.
