Israel launched hundreds of air attacks in southern and jap Lebanon on Monday, killing more than 274 people, because the Israeli navy known as on residents to right away evacuate locations the place it claimed that Hezbollah shops weapons.
1000’s of individuals fled southern Lebanon, jamming the primary freeway to Beirut. At the very least 1,024 individuals had been injured within the assaults, the Well being Ministry stated.
The Israeli navy stated it hit 300 targets linked to Hezbollah weapons websites on Monday. It stated it was increasing the operation to incorporate areas of the Bekaa Valley, alongside Lebanon’s jap border.
Residents of various villages in southern Lebanon posted photographs on social media that they stated confirmed their cities being struck.
The wave of air assaults got here a day after Hezbollah fired greater than 100 rockets into northern Israel, with some touchdown close to the town of Haifa.
Hezbollah’s rockets had been in response to an Israeli air strike on a Beirut suburb on Friday that killed a top Hezbollah military commander and greater than a dozen of the group’s members, together with civilians together with ladies and kids.
Final week, hundreds of communications gadgets, used primarily by Hezbollah members, exploded in numerous elements of Lebanon, killing 39 individuals and wounding almost 3,000. Lebanon blamed the assaults on Israel, however Israel didn’t verify or deny its accountability.