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More than 200,000 people have fled Lebanon into Syria: UN commissioner
More than 200,000 Lebanese and Syrian nationals have crossed the border into Syria to flee the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, according to the UN high commissioner for refugees.
Filippo Grandi wrote in a post on X that authorities, the Syrian Red Crescent and his agency are providing assistance to the displaced along the border.
More than 200,000 people — Lebanese citizens and Syrians living in Lebanon — have now fled the country and crossed the Syrian border as a result of Israeli airstrikes. Relief efforts by the authorities, @SYRedCrescent, UNHCR and other organisations continue in border locations.
— Filippo Grandi (@FilippoGrandi) October 5, 2024
Volunteers risk lives to retrieve pets from south Beirut
After Israeli bombardments forced them to flee their homes in haste, displaced Lebanese have been asking volunteers to enter their bombed-out neighbourhoods to retrieve their pets.
Maggie Shaarawi, vice president of the Animals Lebanon charity, is one of the rescuers. “A lot of people had to evacuate their homes in a hurry. In most cases, cats stressed by bombing hide,” making it impossible to scoop them up quickly, she said.
“Our goal is to just enter, rescue and leave.”
Multiple casualties in Israeli air strikes across Lebanon
A female volunteer with the Red Cross from a town in eastern Lebanon’s Baalbek has died of a head wound sustained in an Israeli air strike, according to the National News Agency (NNA).
It reported that an Israeli drone carried out another strike this afternoon targeting a house in the eastern town of Zawtar with initial information indicating three people were killed.
The NNA said two people were killed after a bomb hit Nabatieh in southern Lebanon and a raid in Majdal Silm in Tyre resulted in at least one person being killed and another wounded.
The agency also reported the Israeli military is carrying out more attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
More Israeli air strikes on southern Beirut
We’re getting reports of more Israeli air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs targeting the areas of Hara Harik and Burj al-Barajneh.
There have also been attacks on the Dahiyeh region today.
More Israeli attacks hit the suburbs of Beirut, target paramedics
There have been several airstrikes across the southern suburb of Beirut in the past few minutes.
In the past hours, one strike hit near the airport, and we understand another missile hit near a paramedic team to prevent them from getting to the scene of the bigger strike.
Multiple attacks hit the Burj al-Barajneh area, which is inside the southern suburb. There’s clearly a grey layer of smoke above this area now.
There is increasing destruction and it’s clear that complete blocks are being destroyed one after another.
Yesterday, during the night alone there were 13 attacks. Since this morning, there have been at least three air strikes and two drone strikes. We’re not sure about the number of casualties because it’s not safe to get in and paramedics are being prevented from getting to the hit areas.
The sound of the drones is becoming part of the environment.
Israeli military says two Hamas fighters killed in Lebanon
The Israeli forces say it had killed two fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas operating in Lebanon.
The Israeli military named Muhammad Hussein Ali al-Mahmoud, who it said served as the group’s executive authority in Lebanon, as being killed in an Israeli air strike. Said Alaa Naif Ali, a member of Hamas’s military wing in Lebanon, was also killed in an Israeli operation overnight on Saturday, it said.
The Qassam Brigades confirmed the deaths of two of its fighters following Israeli air strikes in Lebanon, but provided different names for them: Mohammed Hussein al-Louise and Saeed Attallah Ali.
