More than 270 people have been killed and 1,000 injured in intense Israeli air strikes across Lebanon, the country’s health minister says, after Israel warned it was “deepening” its attacks on the armed group Hezbollah.
Thousands of people also fled their homes as the Israeli military said it struck more than 800 Hezbollah targets and told civilians to evacuate areas near the Iran-backed group’s positions.
Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets into northern Israel following the strikes. Israeli paramedics said one person was injured by shrapnel.
It is the deadliest day in almost a year of escalating cross-border fighting that has heightened fears of all-out war.
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Three religious figures with ties to the Lebanon-based Shiite party Hezbollah have been killed in Israeli air strikes on residential areas in the country’s south, Al Hadath reported, citing sources.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the TV channel, two influential clerics, Abdul Moneim Mahna and Amin Saad, were killed. Saad died during the shelling attack on the town of Bint Jbeil in south Lebanon. Another senior cleric killed, Ali Aburia, was well-known in the Beqaa Region.
Jordan has suspended flights operated by Jordanian carriers to Beirut until further notice, the country's Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission said on Monday.
ReplyDeleteLebanese health ministry announced that the preliminary death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on several Lebanese villages and towns has risen to 182 with other 727 injured since Monday morning.
ReplyDeleteThe United States is sending a "small number" of additional troops to the Middle East in response to rising tensions in the region, the Pentagon said on Monday, giving few further details.
ReplyDeleteIsraeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has announced an expansion of strikes on military facilities, missile depots and command staff of the Shiite Hezbollah movement across Lebanon.
ReplyDeleteUN Secretary General António Guterres said on Sunday that he feared such a conflict could turn Lebanon into “another Gaza”.
ReplyDeleteBiden says 'working to de-escalate' in Lebanon
ReplyDeleteIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israelis that the country is facing "difficult days" as the Israeli Air Force pounds Hezbollah sites in Lebanon.
ReplyDeleteResidents of the northern Israeli city of Haifa ran for shelter as sirens rang out this evening, an AFP journalist reported.
ReplyDelete"Sirens sounded in the city of Haifa and surrounding areas, northern Israel," the Israeli army said in a statement.
The Israeli military is preparing for the next stage of its operation in Lebanon after launching a wave of air strikes against Hezbollah targets on Monday morning, the military chief of the general staff Herzi Halevi said.
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