More than 182 people killed, 400 wounded in deadliest Israeli strikes on Lebanon
At least 182 people, including women and children were killed Monday and around 400 were injured in the deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
The strikes come after wave of attacks since last week where Israel and Lebanon traded heavy fire.
“So far more than 300 Hezbollah sites have been targeted” since Monday morning, the Israel’s military said in a statement. It earlier said more than 150 air strikes were carried out within just one hour, between 6:30 am and 7:30 am.
Israeli warplanes targeted several southern towns for the first time since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched its offensive against Gaza strip following an unprecedented attack by Hamas militants.
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The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health issued a second update on the outcome of the continued Israeli enemy raids on the southern towns and villages since this morning, stating that these raids have led, until the issuance of this statement,” Lebanon Health Ministry said.
Earlier, Lebanon’s health ministry said, Israeli strikes on the south killed 100 people and wounded more than 400 others on Monday, the deadliest day in the cross-border clashes since October 7.
The health ministry said Israeli strikes on the south killed 100 people and wounded more than 400 others on Monday, the worst toll in nearly a year of cross-border clashes.
“Enemy raids on southern towns and villages since this morning… killed 100 and injured more than 400,” the health ministry said in a statement updating earlier figures, adding that “children, women and paramedics” were among the casualties.
An official from the Israeli military said the strikes are aimed at curbing Hezbollah’s ability to launch more strikes into Israel, Naharnet reported.
Hospitals in south and east Lebanon have been asked to halt all non-urgent surgeries to make vacancies for wounded in intense Israeli strikes while schools in Beirut’s southern suburb and south and east Lebanon halted classes and evacuated students.
The ministry “asks all hospitals” in south and east Lebanon districts “to stop all non-essential surgery in order to make space to treat the wounded due to the expanding Israeli aggression on Lebanon”, statement from Lebanon’s health ministry said.
Caretaker Education Minister Abbas Halabi on Monday said schools in Lebanon’s east and south as well as in Beirut’s southern suburbs would shut for two days as Israeli strikes intensified.
In a statement, Halabi “announced the closure of public and private schools” Monday and Tuesday in the areas due to “security and military situations” that “pose a danger to the movement of students
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