ISRAEL bombed Beirut overnight after Lebanon’s health ministry reported 40 people killed and 53 wounded in a massive Israeli aerial bombardment of areas in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and Baalbek city.
The UN’s humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya has warned that Palestinian civilians held under “near-total brutal siege” by Israeli forces in northern Gaza are “starving while the world watches”.
Hezbollah said that swarms of attack drones have targeted the Israeli military’s Bilu base south of Tel Aviv for the first time, while a naval base in Israel’s northern port city of Haifa was attacked again.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,391 Palestinians and injured 102,347 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
In Lebanon, at least 3,050 people have been killed and 13,658 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.
Israeli air strikes on around 20 targets in northeastern Lebanon’s Baalbek region and other areas north of the Litani river have killed around 60 “Hezbollah operatives”, the Israeli military has said.
Providing a breakdown of its recent operations in Lebanon, the Israeli military also said it had struck “dozens more Hezbollah targets” over the past day, including a “rocket launcher used in an attack on central Israel, weapon depots, and other infrastructure”.
It continued that troops from the 91st and 36th divisions “continue to operate in southern Lebanon”, where they have demolished sites belonging to the Lebanese group, including a “military warehouse and a rocket launcher”.