Lebanon’s health minister said 274 people had been killed, including 21 children and 39 women, and 1024 wounded.
Lebanon says 274 people killed, including 21 children and 39 womenLebanese residents receive calls to move away from Hezbollah postsIsrael said it had launched airstrikes against hundreds of Hezbollah targets on Monday, killing 274 people in Lebanon’s deadliest day in decades according to authorities, as it ramped up a nearly year-long conflict with its Iran-backed enemy.
He said 89 temporary shelters in schools and the like had been activated, with capacity for more than 26,000 people so far. Israeli Iron Dome air defence system fires to intercept rockets that were launched from Lebanon on Monday.After almost a year of war against Hamas in Gaza on its southern border, Israel is shifting its focus to the northern frontier, where Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel in support of Hamas, also backed by Iran. One Lebanese official said it was Lebanon’s highest daily death toll from violence since the 1975-1990 civil war.
Earlier, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the campaign would continue until “we achieve our goal to return the northern residents safely to their homes”. Hezbollah for its part has vowed to fight on until there is a ceasefire in Gaza. In response to the strikes, Hezbollah said it had launched dozens of missiles at a military base in northern Israel.
“In every house we are attacking there are weapons. Rockets, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles that were meant for and aimed at killing Israeli civilians.”The strikes have redoubled the pressure on Hezbollah, which last week suffered heavy losses when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by its membersIn another major blow, an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb on Friday struck senior Hezbollah commanders, killing 45 people, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
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