Israel says 50 projectiles launched from Lebanon into Upper Galilee region
Israel’s military said “about 50 launches” have been detected crossing from Lebanon into northern Israel.
According to the military, “some” of the launches, which can include rockets, attack drones and other projectiles, were intercepted by Israeli aerial defence systems while “crashes were detected in the region”.
The Israeli military did not report on casualties or damage to infrastructure resulting from the attack.
An Israeli patrol on the Israel-Lebanon border near Dovev in the Upper Galilee region of northern Israel
UNRWA says some Lebanon shelters at ‘full capacity’
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says it is operating 11 emergency shelters across Lebanon, several of which are at full capacity.
UNRWA added that humanitarian access has been “severely restricted” in the south of Lebanon, where the agency’s work in three Palestinian refugee camps has been limited to providing sanitation and water services.
Lebanon is home to at least 500,000 Palestinian refugees according to the most recent figures from UNRWA.
Fear and defiance as Israeli missiles target Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley
Israel has intensified it bombing campaign in eastern Lebanon with the Bekaa Valley experiencing multiple air attacks that hit residential areas near Baalbek city on Tuesday.
Dr Ghassan al-Bazzal of the Al Mortada Hospital recounted how an Israeli air strike hit so close that the medical facility was damaged.
“The strike hit just 100 metres [328 ft] away. We sustained a lot of damage. The upper sections were severely damaged: The windows, the glass, the solar panels, the x-ray room, the labs,” al-Bazzal told Al Jazeera. “We had patients who were being treated because of previous air strikes. We had to transfer them to another hospital,” he said.
Baalbek resident Yunus Ramadan said all homes within 500 metres of the site attacked had been damaged. Despite the danger, Ramadan said he would not leave his home.
“Everything has been damaged. Of course, I am afraid. If you are not afraid, then you are not human. If you had been here when the missile hit, then you also would have been afraid. I’m never going to leave though. Even if my house collapses on my head,” he told Al Jazeera.
People walk past a destroyed building following an Israeli air strike in the village of Douris southeast of Baalbek in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley on October 15
Damage and debris outside the entrance of Al Mortada Hospital in the village of Douris, after an Israeli air strike, southeast of Baalbek City in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley on October 15
