beirut: At least 25 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes in Lebanon. These attacks also included a bombing in a southern city, which killed more than a dozen people. Another attack in the south of Lebanon also killed the city’s mayor. Lebanese officials said on Wednesday that the attack targeted a meeting held to coordinate relief efforts. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the attacks late Tuesday in the southern city of Qana, where 15 people were killed. Have been killed. Lebanon’s acting Prime Minister Najib Mikati accused Israel of deliberately targeting a city council meeting to discuss relief efforts and said the international community has been deliberately silent about Israeli attacks that have killed civilians. . He asked what solution can be expected in this reality.
Israel targeted residential buildings
The Israeli military said, without providing evidence, that it targeted Hezbollah command centers and weapons stores in the civilian areas of Nabatieh in Wednesday’s strikes. Israel also resumed bombing the southern suburbs of Beirut after a six-day pause, targeting a weapons warehouse located beneath an apartment building. The military had warned residents to evacuate their homes before the attack and there were no reports of any injuries.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army on the attacks on the southern city of Kana late Tuesday night. Associated Press photos and video from the scene show many buildings razed to the ground and some with their upper floors collapsed. In 1996, Israeli shelling on a UN compound in Qana housing hundreds of displaced people killed at least 100 civilians and wounded four UN peacekeepers.
Israel attacked after a pause of a few days
An Israeli attack on a residential building during the 2006 war killed 36 people, a third of whom were children. Israel had said at that time that it had carried out this attack by targeting a rocket launcher of Hezbollah. Hezbollah fired more than 90 shells toward Israel on Wednesday, wounding four civilians, according to Israel Rescue Services.
Israel resumed attacks on Beirut after a pause of a few days. The attacks were the first on south Beirut in six days and Lebanon’s acting Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, said the US had assured him that Israel would halt its attacks on the capital. Hezbollah has a significant presence in southern Beirut.
11 lakh people displaced in Lebanon
More than half a dozen attacks hit the city and surrounding areas in Nabatieh, killing at least six people and wounding 43 others, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. Provincial governor Huvaida Turk told The Associated Press that the city’s mayor, Ahmed Kahil, was among those killed. UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said on Khalil’s death in Hamzay that the attack follows other incidents in which civilians and infrastructure have been targeted in Lebanon.
Nearly 2,300 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon since October last year, more than three-quarters of them in the last month, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. About 1.1 million people have been displaced in Lebanon due to this fighting.