Israeli attack kills 17 members of a family in Lebanon’s Bekaa
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that at least 17 members of one family were killed in an Israeli air strike that hit the town of Zboud in the country’s northern Bekaa Valley.
The search for survivors under the rubble is still ongoing, NNA said.
Hezbollah says senior commander also killed in Friday’s Israeli attack
Hezbollah confirms that one of its senior commanders, Ali Karaki, was killed in the Israeli air strike on Friday that killed its leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Earlier on Sunday, Israel announced it killed another Hezbollah senior commander, Nabil Kaouk, but the group has yet to comment.
Hezbollah’s latest operations
Hezbollah says its fighters carried out three operations today:
- Firing a series of Fadi 1 rockets at the Ofek military base in northern Israel.
- An attack on Israeli soldiers in Manara, opposite the Lebanese village of Hula.
- Targeting Israel’s Sa’ar settlement with multiple rocket strikes.
New Israeli strikes target Beirut’s southern suburbs
The Israeli military has carried out new attacks on Lebanon, including Dahiyeh, the southern suburb of the capital, Beirut. It also claimed to target Hezbollah’s weapons storage facilities and infrastructure sites in the country.
A Lebanese security official confirmed the Beirut strike to AFP, with a loud explosion heard and smoke seen billowing from the area.
‘Same story complete’: Foreign volunteer doctor compares Lebanon with Gaza
The type of injuries from Israeli attacks on Lebanon is reminiscent of those in Gaza, particularly at the start of Israel’s war there last year, says Ghassan Abu Sittah, a foreign doctor currently in Beirut.
“Having worked in Gaza during the first two months of the genocide there, it’s the same story complete,” Abu Sittah told Al Jazeera from the Lebanese capital.
He said victims had almost “identical” patterns of injuries due to blasts and being pulled from under rubble. Multiple members of the same family were also being killed in Lebanon, just as in Gaza, he added.
“Children constitute a large part of the wounded,” Abu Sittah said, noting these young victims were largely injured inside their homes after coming under attack.
“We have been receiving children who needed paediatric intensive care and because of the shortage of paediatric intensive care beds, they’ve had to be sent from front-line hospitals in the south all the way back to Beirut.”
Many coming into hospitals also have no homes to go back to because those were destroyed in the attacks, the doctor said.
Israeli attacks kill 14 medics in Lebanon in two days
Fourteen medics have been killed over the course of two days of Israeli strikes across Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry has said in a statement.
“The Israeli occupation forces have accumulated their attacks on paramedics and health centres in recent days. This series of attacks led to the martyrdom of fourteen paramedics in two days,” it said in the statement.
“The Ministry of Public Health condemns in the strongest terms the repeated attacks by the Israeli enemy on health centres, which flout international laws and norms, especially the Geneva Convention, which stresses the need to neutralise health centres and health workers to allow them to carry out their humanitarian duty.
“Does Israel want blood to flow without stopping? Where is the international community and its responsibility to put an end to this escalating genocide?”
More than 1,600 people killed in Lebanon since last October
The Lebanese Government Emergency Committee has just shared these statistics:
- Since October 8, 1,640 people, including 104 children and 194 women, have been killed and 8,408 wounded.
- There have been 216 air attacks in the past 24 hours across Lebanon.
- Right now, there are 116,100 displaced people in the 777 accredited shelters.
- About 36,188 Syrians and 41,307 Lebanese have crossed the border into Syrian territory since September 23.
