At the least 40 individuals have been killed in Israeli air strikes in japanese Lebanon, together with the primary metropolis of Baalbek, with rescuers nonetheless in search of survivors underneath the rubble.
“The collection of Israeli enemy strikes on the Bekaa Valley and Baalbek” killed “40 individuals and injured 53”, the Ministry of Public Well being stated of Wednesday’s assaults.
The demise toll contains 11 individuals killed in Baalbek, 9 of them within the Shikan district, a densely packed Sunni neighbourhood within the Shia-majority metropolis.
An Israeli assault additionally killed 16 individuals within the village of Nasriyah, the ministry stated.
“Rescue and rubble elimination operations are nonetheless ongoing in the hunt for lacking individuals,” it added.
The assaults passed off shortly after Hezbollah’s new secretary-general, Naim Qassem, stated he didn’t imagine that political motion would carry an finish to Israel’s offensive. He stated there may very well be a street to oblique negotiations, nevertheless, if Israel stopped its bombardment of Lebanon.
At the least 3,050 individuals have been killed and 13,658 wounded in Israeli assaults because the warfare on Gaza started, based on Well being Ministry figures.
