At least 51 people were killed and another 223 wounded on Wednesday in Israeli bombardments on several areas in southern and eastern Lebanon, as Israel continues to carry out intense airstrikes for the third day in a row.
The Chief of the Israeli General Staff, Herzi Halevisaid on Wednesday that the air strikes on Lebanon are preparing the ground for a possible Israeli ground invasion against Hezbollah, after the army called up two brigades to carry out “missions” in the north. In this way, the Israeli army, after the invasion and occupation of the Gaza Strip, opens the door to a similar scenario in Lebanon.
“You can hear the planes there, we are attacking all day long. Both to prepare the ground for the possibility of your entry and to continue to harm Hezbollah,” the official said during a military exercise on the border.
Halevi outlined that the possible Israeli “maneuver” would involve invading towns in southern Lebanon that the Shiite group has “converted into a large military base,” in order to destroy the group’s infrastructure in the area.
At least 51 people were killed and another 223 wounded on Wednesday in a series of Israeli bombardments on several areas in southern and eastern Lebanon, as Israel continued to carry out intense airstrikes for the third day in a row.
Only so far today there have been air strikes against southern and eastern regions Bekaa Valleymainly Baalbek and Hermel, have already left more than fifty dead and 223 wounded, Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad announced at a press conference.
As part of the measures to address the situation, his department will draw up a daily list of health centres assigned to care for displaced persons with medical needs in different parts of the country, while a specific crisis cell has been activated for displaced persons.
According to Abiad, some 310 medical centers and mobile clinics are already available for this purpose, more than 20 of them in the south, and in the coming days they hope to increase this number, in addition to assigning at least one of them to each shelter for displaced people.
Israel began bombing on Monday intensely targeting Hezbollah’s southern and eastern strongholds, while already launching attacks on areas beyond them, such as those that took place in the region on Wednesday Keserwannorth of Beirut.
The campaign of aggression has caused an unprecedented number of casualties, including many civilians, since the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) and forced tens of thousands of people Unpleasant leave their homes in the affected areas.
Specifically, more than 90,000 people have been forced to leave their homes over the past six days, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports.
The UN agency has counted 90,530 new displaced people since publishing its last count last Thursday, of which nearly 40,000 affected people have been housed in some 283 shelters set up by authorities in different parts of the country.
In this way, in just under a week, almost as many displacements have taken place as in an entire year, as from the outbreak of the conflict until Thursday approximately 111,000 displaced people on the Lebanese side.
Source: EITB
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