Israeli hits multiple buildings in Lebanon’s Qana
A healthcare centre was hit and rescue workers are digging through the rubble at the moment. We know the death count is about 10 people – but that number could well go up – and around 15 people injured. There are also fires breaking out in some of those homes, so it’s very much an active scene at the moment.
We do know that there have been many warnings against Israel hitting healthcare workers. Dozens of them have died since the beginning of this conflict.
The World Health Organization also warned just a couple of weeks ago that Israel is continuously hitting not only healthcare centres, but they seem to be targeting healthcare workers, and this is affecting the mass trauma management that’s needed in these areas of conflict, especially in the South of Lebanon and in the Bekaa Valley.
The other thing you need to know about Qana is it is strategically and symbolically important. There was a massacre there in 1996: Israeli shelling killed at least 116 people, many of whom were sheltering there away from fighting. Again, in 2006, more shelling killed more than 50 people.
Two Hezbollah drones breach Israeli airspace
Two drones were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israel following sirens that sounded in the Upper Galilee, the Israeli military said in a statement, adding that no injuries were reported.
Fallen targets were identified in the area, the army said, which did not say that the drones had been intercepted by air defences.
41 killed in Lebanon as total number of Israeli attacks passes 10,000, Lebanese authorities say
Vehicles lie among the ruins of a house that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Aitou, Lebanon, on Tuesday.
At least 41 people have been killed and 124 injured by Israeli attacks in Lebanon over the past day, Lebanese authorities said Tuesday, as a government report said the total number of attacks on the country had passed 10,000.
There were 146 Israeli attacks on Lebanon in the past 24 hours alone, according to a report released Tuesday by the Lebanese government’s emergency committee, which said there had been a total of 10,012 raids since the onset of “Israeli aggression.” It did not specify the date it was referring to for the onset of attacks.
Here’s more details in the report from Dr. Nasser Yassin, the committee’s coordinator and the environment minister:
- The 146 strikes primarily targeted the southern regions and Nabatiyeh.
- Of the 1,067 centers established to shelter displaced people, 881 were now at full capacity. (The number of displaced people has reached 188,652, according to the National Operations Room.)
- Lebanese authorities recorded 329,386 Syrian citizens and 126,842 Lebanese citizens crossing from Lebanon into Syrian territory between September 23 and October 15.
- About 77% of public schools are unable to operate, either because they are serving as shelters or are in areas directly affected by the violence.
- The directly affected areas include 40% of public technical education and vocational training students, 57% of Lebanese university students and 32% of private higher education institutions.
