Israeli air strikes around Tyre
In the past few minutes, there have been several Israeli air strikes around Tyre. The air strikes have been hitting several villages and towns around the city and this is part of the relentless Israeli military campaign.
Right now, strikes are targeting the residential neighbourhood of al-Hosh in the eastern suburb of Tyre. We can see plumes of smoke rising. We don’t know what the target was and if there are civilians there.
Smoke billows over southern Lebanon following an Israeli strike, as seen from Tyre, Lebanon
Israeli strike hits mountain town north of Beirut
We earlier reported the Israeli military is carrying out “extensive” air strikes in south Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley.
It’s now being reported that a strike hit the Lebanese town of Maaysrah, according to state media, referring to a place in the mountains of the Christian-majority Keserwan region.
Three killed, 9 wounded in Israeli attack on Keserwan
Three people have been killed and nine wounded in an Israeli air strike in the mountains of the Keserwan region, north of Beirut. The initial casualty toll issued by Lebanon’s Health Ministry comes after reports of an air raid targeting the town of Maaysrah.
Cameraman killed by Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon
Al-Manar TV cameraman Kamel Karaki has been killed in an Israeli air raid on Qantara town in south Lebanon, local media reports say. Al Jazeera correspondent Ali Hashem, reporting from Tyre, said Karaki was well-known within the journalist community.
“I’ve known him for the past 22 years,” Hashem said. “It shows how this wave of strikes has been indiscriminate.”
Another journalist, Hadi al-Sayed, who worked for the Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadeen, was killed on Monday in an Israeli air raid on his home in southern Lebanon.
Karaki is the fifth journalist to be killed in Lebanon since October 7. The International Federation of Journalists documented the death of four more journalists, including Reuters’s Issam Abdallah, who was killed as an Israeli tank fired at a group of journalists in Alma el-Shaab on October 13.
Three killed, 13 injured in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon
At least three people have been killed and 13 injured in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon’s Ain Qana, in the Nabatieh governorate.
Smoke rises from Israeli air strikes in the southern village of Soujod, seen from Marjayoun, south Lebanon
‘Disastrous failure’: How Biden emboldened Israel to attack Lebanon
A week before the Israeli government unleashed a barrage of attacks on Lebanon – killing nearly 500 people in a single day – the US sent a diplomat to Israel with the stated goal of promoting de-escalation.
Amos Hochstein, US President Joe Biden’s envoy, landed in the region on September 16 with the aim of preventing daily exchanges of fire at the Israel-Lebanon border between Lebanese group Hezbollah and Israeli forces from leading to all-out war.
But a day after Hochstein’s arrival, booby-trapped communication devices linked to Hezbollah were detonated across Lebanon, killing and injuring thousands in an attack widely believed to have been carried out by Israel. Further assaults would follow.
