Seven civilians killed in rocket hearth from Lebanon as Israeli forces conduct lethal air raids on Beirut.
4 Thai agricultural staff have been killed in Hezbollah rocket assaults on northern Israel, because the Israeli army hit Lebanon’s capital with a number of air strikes.
Posting on social media platform X on Friday, Thai International Minister Maris Sangiampongsa stated he was “deeply saddened” by the deaths near the city of Metula on Thursday, including that one other Thai citizen was injured.
“Thailand continues to strongly urge all events to return to the trail of peace, within the title of the harmless civilians gravely impacted by this extended and deepening battle,” Maris added.
Israeli medics stated late on Thursday that three Israeli civilians had been additionally killed within the rocket barrages from Lebanon, the deadliest cross-border assaults for the reason that battle between Israel and Hezbollah escalated in August.
An estimated 30,000 Thai nationals stay in Israel, the place salaries are a lot increased than within the Southeast Asian nation.
Thai nationals in Israel have been hit for the reason that begin of Israel’s warfare in Gaza final October. Greater than two dozen Thais had been believed to have been captured throughout the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel that month, and 23 had been launched from captivity throughout a short truce in November 2023.
The Israeli military had stated two different Thai nationals died in captivity in Gaza in Could.
Whereas there have been near-daily cross-border assaults between Israel and Hezbollah for the reason that Gaza warfare began, Israel intensified its air assaults and killings of Hezbollah leaders because the warfare entered its second yr.
In Lebanon, not less than 2,865 folks have been killed and 13,047 wounded in Israeli assaults for the reason that warfare on Gaza started, with 45 folks killed throughout the nation up to now 24 hours, in accordance with Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Well being.
On Friday, Lebanon’s Nationwide Information Company (NNA) reported that Israeli fighter jets hit not less than 10 targets in a number of neighbourhoods south of the capital Beirut, leading to casualties.
“The raids left huge destruction within the focused areas, as dozens of buildings had been levelled to the bottom, along with the outbreak of fires,” NNA stated.
Lebanese media stated not less than two folks had been killed and 4 injured within the Israeli assaults.
Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr stated the strikes adopted one other “failed diplomatic try” to finish the preventing, as high United States officers Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk had been in Israel on Thursday for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Often, after they maintain talks in Israel, they go to Beirut afterwards. This time they didn’t, which is mostly a clear indication that there isn’t any progress or breakthrough,” Khodr stated.
The Israeli army has continued to problem compelled displacement orders in Lebanon, together with for all the metropolis of Baalbek within the east, rendering tens of hundreds of individuals homeless.
“It’s a technique – displacement. It’s a type of stress, identical to these air strikes,” Khodr stated.
