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Three killed as Israeli forces continue to pound Lebanon
Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting that Israeli forces bombed a house in the town of Maydoun in Bekaa, killing three people and destroying the house.
The killings came as Israeli forces continued to pound Lebanon, bombing shops selling electrical appliances in the southern city of Tyre and carrying out air raids on the towns of Shamshtar in eastern Baalbek and Roumine in southern Nabatieh.
Earlier in the evening, Israeli forces bombed the northern town of Ain Yaaqoub, killing at least 14 people. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said Israeli attacks killed at least 54 people across the country on Monday.
‘Do they want to hurt our children? We are not what they are looking for’
At the burns centre in Beirut’s Lebanon Hospital Geitaoui, about a fifth of newly admitted patients are children, according to the AP.
Among them is Ivana Skakye, who suffered third-degree burns over 40 percent of her body following an Israeli attack on her home on September 23. The girl, who turned two last week, remains wrapped in gauze around her head, arms and lower body.
Fatima Zayoun, her mother, told the AP that the Israeli attack damaged their house and caused a fire.
Ivana and her sister were playing on the terrace at the time of the strike. Zayoun said she found the two children covered in black ash. Ivana was unrecognisable. Her hair had burned away.
The child could be discharged in the coming days, but Zayoun said the family has no home to return to. She’s worried that Ivana could suffer infections in the crowded shelters for the war-displaced.
“What do they want from us? Do they want to hurt our children? We are not what they are looking for,” Zayoun told the AP.
According to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health, Israeli attacks have killed 201 children in Lebanon since October 2023, and injured 1,272.
Israel’s attacks traumatising another generation in Lebanon, doctor says
Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have left hundreds of children struggling with physical and emotional wounds, according to the AP.
Among them is four-year-old Hussein Mikdad who, along with his father, was the only survivor from their family following an Israeli attack on their home in Beirut last month. That attack killed 18 people including Hussein’s mother, his two sisters and his brother.
Hussein suffered a fractured thigh and torn tendons in his arm.
Doctors at the American University of Beirut Medical Center say he should be able to walk again soon, albeit with a limp, but the prognosis for his invisible wounds is harder. Hussein is back in diapers and has begun wetting his bed. He hardly speaks and has not asked about his mother and siblings, his father said.
British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah, who is treating Hussein, told the AP that Israel’s attacks were leaving “a generation” of physically and psychologically wounded children.
‘Picture of life in Lebanon remains grim’: UN humanitarian coordinator
The UN humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon Imran Riza says there is “an alarming level of human costs and humanitarian consequences of conflict in Lebanon”.
In a statement, he shared the following figures:
- In the past week, at least 241 people have been killed and 642 injured due to Israeli air attacks, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
- On Sunday, air raids reportedly killed 23 people, including seven children, in the village of Almat in Mount Lebanon.
- On the same day, an air strike in the city of Tyre killed five siblings from the same family, all of whom had special needs.
- In the past month, more than 185,000 people have fled their homes in search of safety within the country.
- There are currently more than 870,000 people internally displaced.
“The current picture of life in Lebanon remains grim,” Riza said, calling for the violence to stop and for international humanitarian law to be respected.
