In addition, the Israeli bombings last Thursday caused 81 injuries. These attacks have already resulted in the displacement of more than 90,000 people. Thousands of Lebanese and Syrians are fleeing Lebanon for Syria. On Thursday, Israel bombed several crossings along that border.
This Thursday, Israel launched a total of 115 airstrikes, killing at least 60 people in various parts of southern and eastern Lebanon, as well as bombing Beirut’s southern neighborhoods known as Dahye.
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahuresponded to the information about the possibility of a ceasefire and stressed that he has ordered the army to continue operations against Lebanon “with all its strength”.
Israel’s attack campaign has left about 700 dead since Monday, an unprecedented number of casualties since the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990).
Environment Minister and coordinator of Lebanon’s National Emergency Plan, Nasser Yassin, said in a report that “today approximately 115 attacks have been registered in various areas of Lebanon, resulting in 60 martyrs and 81 injuries,” according to a count by the Ministry of the public health of the Mediterranean country.
The Israeli army claims to have killed the commander of Hezbollah’s air unit, which it identified Mohammed Hosein Sarurin an airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut. The attack on the Lebanese capital is the fourth in less than seven days and the sixth since October last year.
Exodus and flight
These bombings have led to the displacement of tens of thousands of people, including at least 77,100, who have registered in shelters set up by the government in recent days.
A report of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported the day before that more than 90,000 people had been forced to leave their homes due to the wave of attacks carried out by Israel on various parts of Lebanon in recent days.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has also warned that thousands of Lebanese and Syrians are fleeing Lebanon towards Syria, leaving hundreds of vehicles waiting to cross the border into the neighboring country.
Yassin has indicated that in recent days authorities have recorded “the crossing of 15,600 Syrian citizens and another 16,130 Lebanese citizens into Syrian territory,” while indicating that “thousands have traveled by air” to other countries, thus “the real number ”. of displaced people “is probably much higher.”
The Israeli army bombed several on Thursday border crossings between Lebanon and Syriaarguing that it is acting to prevent “the transfer of weapons” to Hezbollah from Syrian territory.
For its part, the Lebanese Shiite group claimed the launch on Thursday barrage of projectiles and drones against several settler settlements and military targets in northern Israel.
Source: EITB
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