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5 people killed in Israeli attack on Wardaniyeh
Israel has continued its assault on Lebanon overnight, with five people killed and 12 wounded in an attack on the town of Wardaniyeh.
The Lebanese Civil Defense has said five paramedics were also killed following an Israeli raid in Tyre district, while four people were killed in an attack in Baalbek region.
Medics in Lebanon say Israel is deliberately targeting them
Over 100 medics have been killed in Lebanon since hostilities broke out and it’s having an effect.
Hospitals here in southern Lebanon and frontline medical centres have been shut down. At least 40 of them since October 8 – simply because Israeli air strikes are coming too close into their compounds for the doctors and the front-line staff to say that they can operate here safely.
So they’ve shut them down. That’s at least 40 out of 137 hospitals across this 120km border. The front-line emergency services are incredibly stretched and this is all just putting more pressure on them. Medical staff say they feel that they are being deliberately targeted and that it’s exactly like what the Israelis have done to medical facilities in Gaza.
Israel claims killing two Hezbollah commanders
The Israeli military said it has killed two Hezbollah commanders in air attacks in southern Lebanon. They are Ahmed Mustafa Allhaj Ali, who the Israeli military said was responsible for firing hundreds of rockets and antitank missiles at the city of Kiryat Shmona, and Muhammad Ali Hamdan, who it said was responsible for launching missile attacks on northern Israel.
The Israeli military also said it bombed weapons warehouses in Beirut and other military infrastructure in southern Lebanon overnight.
There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.
Lebanese accuse Israel of collective punishment as bombardment continues
Israeli strikes on Lebanon are continuing. In the town of Khiam, which is about 14 kilometres from where I am, we’ve been hearing intense Israeli air strikes. We’ve counted at least nine of them so far, and there were at least 16 in that area yesterday.
And overnight, there were attacks on Wardaniyeh, which killed at least five people. This is a town in central Lebanon, in the Mount Lebanon Governorate.
That’s far away from southern Lebanon and from the southern suburbs of Beirut and that’s very concerning to the Lebanese because it shows the Israeli air campaign is widening across the country.
And there were two key strikes in Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight.
A lot of people here feel that this is just collective punishment. The Dahiyeh suburb is actually a vibrant neighbourhood. It gets called a Hezbollah stronghold in the media, which makes it sound like a garrison town. It’s not. It’s just a regular neighbourhood in Beirut. And Beirut’s a lively capital.
So people are just wondering what is left for the Israelis to bomb and they feel that this now is just either collective punishment or straight-up vengeance.
