Beirut: Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon killed 40 people near the eastern city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday, the country’s health ministry reported. Additional strikes targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs at dusk.
For over a year, Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been exchanging fire alongside the ongoing Gaza conflict. However, tensions have sharply escalated since late September, with Israel ramping up bombings in southern and eastern Lebanon and conducting ground incursions into border villages.
The Lebanese health ministry stated that 40 people were killed and 53 injured in the strikes on Baalbek and surrounding areas in the Bekaa Valley. The Israeli military has not issued a statement on the attack.
In the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, Israel has continued to launch heavy strikes. On Wednesday, the Israeli military ordered evacuations from several locations in the area. Two rounds of airstrikes followed, one on Wednesday evening and another in the early hours of Thursday.
With inputs from Reuters…
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