Humanitarian situation in Lebanon worse than during 2006 war, UN says
The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) said that “the humanitarian situation in Lebanon has reached levels that exceed the severity” of the last war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, with many more now killed and displaced.
The statement came as the Lebanese Health Ministry updated the death toll from Israeli attacks on the country to at least 2,968 people. Another 13,319 have been wounded.
The Lebanese government says some 1.2 million people have been displaced, while the International Organization for Migration said its count shows at least 842,648 people have been forced to flee their homes.
The 2006 war killed 1,191 people in Lebanon, while more than 900,000 fled their homes, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The situation has escalated anew, due to Israel’s forced displacement orders for the residents of eastern Baalbek and southern Nabatieh, OCHA said. The toll on the population has been exacerbated by the destruction of critical infrastructure, including healthcare, it added.
Soldiers stand near a damaged building in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on November 2
Israeli attacks killed 85 on-duty medics in Lebanon over two months, UN says
The UN’s humanitarian agency, citing figures from the WHO, said there had been 36 Israeli attacks on healthcare facilities since the escalation with Hezbollah in September. It said 85 health workers have been killed and 51 others wounded while they were on duty between September 17 and October 31.
It said medical first responders continued to operate in “highly dangerous situations”, noting that Israeli attacks had killed at least six of them in southern Lebanon on October 31.
Israel says it killed 2 Hezbollah commanders in Lebanon, PIJ fighter in Gaza
The Israeli military said it has killed two “key” Hezbollah fighters in the southern Lebanese town of Khiam. It named them as Farouk Amin Alashi, a Hezbollah commander in Khiam, and Yosef Ahmed Nun, platoon commander in the elite Radwan force in the southern town.
It accused Alashi of being “responsible for the execution of many anti-tank and anti-tank missile fire plans towards the settlements of the Galilee Finger, and Metula in particular” and said Nun had issued “anti-tank fire” towards Israeli settlements and forces in the Galilee region.
In Gaza, the Israeli military said it killed Rafat Ebrahim Mahmoud Akadih, who it said was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fighter who had served as “assistant to the head of the Nukhaba of the Khan Younis Brigade” and “raided Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7”.
Israel says about 10 rockets fired from Lebanon
The Israeli military said about 10 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory after air raid sirens were sounded in the Haifa Bay and Galilee areas. In a statement on Telegram, the military said some of the rockets were intercepted while the rest fell into open areas.
