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On Monday, Israel’s military announced that it had carried out a precise attack in Beirut. According to security sources, the strike struck the southern neighborhoods of the city, targeting a high-ranking Hezbollah leader. Nasser Yassin, the Lebanese minister in charge of crisis response, reported that tens of thousands of individuals are leaving southern Lebanon because of “Israeli atrocities.”
Israel launched its most widespread wave of air strikes against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, simultaneously targeting the country’s south, its easternBekaa valley and northern region near Syria as well as the suspected location of senior Hezbollah leader Ali Karaki in a southern suburb of Beirut. The Israeli military said late Monday that its air strikes in Lebanon hit more than 1,300 Hezbollah targets in the previous 24 hours.
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Lebanon’s health ministry said that the Israeli air strikes across the country on Monday killed at least 356 people, including 24 children, and wounded at least 1,246 others.
The Israeli military called on people in Lebanon to move away from Hezbollah targets and said it was carrying out “extensive and precise” strikes against the group. Thousands of people fled southern Lebanon, jamming highways, including the main route to Beirut.
Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Qassem said on Sunday that the group was ready for all “military possibilities”, adding that the confrontation with Israel had become an “open-ended battle of reckoning”.
More than 100 rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon early Sunday, the Israeli army said, with some landing near the northern city of Haifa. Hezbollah earlier claimed it attacked Israeli military production sites in response to blasts earlier this week targeting the group’s communications devices.
Israeli forces raid and shut down Al Jazeera’s bureau in the West Bank amid a widening campaign targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster that covers the ongoing war in Gaza.
