Eight wounded after Israeli strike on Lebanon’s Nabatieh
We have been reporting throughout the evening on an Israeli air strike hitting the main commercial market street of Nabaiteh, a major city in southern Lebanon.
Now, the country’s Health Ministry said at least eight people have been wounded there while rescue teams are still working to extinguish fires and remove the rubble that resulted from the strike.
Two people were injured in a separate Israeli air raid in Aitat, in the southern Tyre district, the ministry added.
The ministry added that four people were injured in Temnine, a village in the eastern Baalbek region as Israeli air strikes damaged three hospitals in the area. “For the third consecutive time today, the aggressive Israeli enemy has targeted the area surrounding the hospital,” an official from the Temnine General Hospital was quoted as saying by the Anadolu news agency.
The strikes “resulted in significant and severe damage to the hospital, in addition to injuring many patients present in the hospital due to flying glass and shrapnel”, Anadolu added.
Israeli army says 40 rockets fired from Lebanon
The military added that some of them were intercepted while the rest fell into open areas. This follows Israeli media reports on the activation of air raid sirens in the Upper Galilee region of Israel.
Air strikes in Lebanon south, east
We are getting reports of an Israeli air strike on the town of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.
In a separate attack, an Israeli salvo targeted the town of Younin in the eastern Bekaa region, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent.
‘Apocalyptic scenes’ as Israel bombs market area in south Lebanon’s Nabatieh
The last update we had was from the Lebanese Red Cross and they said they were battling against a big blaze trying to get into that marketplace in Nabatieh to see if there were any survivors and trying to pull out those injured.
They said they pulled out two casualties so far. They haven’t given an update since as to whether this huge blaze is still ongoing.
Many people have taken to social media. They’ve been sending videos of what almost seems like apocalyptic scenes. Entire streets destroyed. We just don’t know the extent of the damage yet. We will have to wait to see in the light of day.
But what’s important to say is that this only about five kilometres north of the Litani River. Israel’s intended aim from the beginning was to push Hezbollah up past the Litani River.
But they seem to be extending far beyond that now. We’ve seen the map of strikes taking place now, not just on the southern border where they have been fighting Hezbollah but really across the country. Even strikes in the centre of Beirut, where we are here.
A rescuer searches for survivors at the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on October 12
