Eighteen people died in an Israeli attack on a town in northern Lebanonreported the local Red Cross, while the Ministry of Health announced that rescue tasks are continuing.
This was the first time that Aito, a town in a mountainous region with a Christian majority, was the target of an attack since the start of the Israeli military campaign against the movement. Hezbollahon September 23rd. The attack targeted an apartment, according to the Lebanese national news agency YEARS.
A photographer from AFP saw human remains in front of the building, located at the entrance to the village and which was completely destroyed.
The Lebanese Army surrounded the site, where a fire was declared.
An Israeli bombing attack on a location north of Beirutalso on the outskirts of Hezbollah strongholds, left 16 dead on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health.
Another six people died outside areas usually considered strongholds of the pro-Iranian militia, including two in a house in Deir Bella “where there were displaced people from the south” of the country, a stronghold of Hezbollah, according to the YEARS.
After having weakened the Hamas In Gaza, Israel has moved most of its operations to Lebanon and claims that the objective is to allow the return of around 60,000 Israelis displaced from the north of the country by the Islamist group’s projectile fire.
The operations, which began on September 23, have since left more than 1,300 people dead in Lebanon, according to a count by AFPand around 700,000 displaced people, according to the UN.
