LEBANON – The toll has increased. At least 30 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry said, as the open war between Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel enters its third month.
In the east, where Hezbollah is active, at least 16 people were killed, including four children, according to the ministry. In the south, another Hezbollah stronghold, at least 14 people died, including five in the coastal city of Tyre, according to the same source. At the start of the day, the report showed ten deaths.
“The capital Beirut woke up to a terrifying massacre, with Israeli aircraft completely destroying an eight-story residential building using five missiles on Maamoun Street in the Basta neighborhood”indicated the National Information Agency Ani this Saturday morning.
A day of bombing
AFP journalists across Beirut and surrounding areas heard at least three loud explosions, followed by a pungent smell, after a day of intense bombing in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of pro-Iranian Hezbollah, in open war against Israel.
The strike damaged several nearby buildings and several ambulances rushed to the site of the targeted building, which turned into a pile of rubble, in this popular and densely populated district of Basta, according to AFPTV images.
Rescuers have been working since this morning to clear the rubble using excavators, as shown in the video at the top of the article. The rescuers cited by Ani reported a “ large number of dead and injured.
Israel wants continue to act with determination »
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz told his American counterpart Lloyd Austin on Saturday that Israel “will continue to act with determination” against the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, its spokesperson said in a statement.
In a telephone conversation between the two men, Israel Katz repeated his country’s commitment to “target Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure and eliminate terrorist leaders” to allow the population of northern Israel, displaced by the movement’s rocket fire, to return home safely.
These strikes come as the WHO said on Friday that nearly 230 health workers had been killed in Lebanon since October 7, 2023, deploring “ an extremely worrying figure”.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.fr
