Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT

Relentless Israeli Strikes Kill Eleven in Lebanon


(MENAFN) At least 11 people were killed and several others wounded across southern Lebanon on Tuesday as Israeli forces pressed ahead with a widening military campaign against the Arab nation, Lebanese media reported.

Lebanon's state-run outlet, reported that two people were killed and a woman sustained injuries when an Israeli strike hit a residential home in the town of Arabsalim.

In a separate pre-dawn assault, three members of a single family were killed and one person wounded after a strike struck the town of Sahmar in the western Bekaa region, the agency reported. Hours earlier, another strike on the coastal town of Adloun claimed three additional lives.

The bloodshed continued when a strike on the town of Shebriha killed one person and left three others injured, the outlet reported. Two further fatalities were recorded after an Israeli drone struck a vehicle traveling along the Msayleh-Nabatieh road late at night.

Injuries were also confirmed in strikes hitting the towns of Mahmoudiyeh, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Jabal al-Botm, Mansouri, Adloun, and Deir Antar. In the Tyre district, Israeli forces struck the area between Ain Baal and Aaitit, while illumination flares were fired over the city and the sea, according to the agency.

Lebanese media additionally reported attacks on more than 10 private homes across the country's south, though no casualty figures were immediately available for those incidents.

The escalation marks a continued expansion of Israel's air and ground offensive across Lebanon — a campaign that has intensified since a cross-border attack launched by Hezbollah on March 2, in open defiance of a ceasefire agreement that entered into force in November 2024.

Lebanese health authorities report that the Israeli assault has now killed at least 2,089 people and wounded 6,762 others since hostilities resumed. Israel currently occupies swaths of southern Lebanese territory — some portions held for decades, others seized during the previous conflict that raged between October 2023 and November 2024.

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