At least 11 people are killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Friday including a mother, father and their three kids in a home as rescue workers called off their search for survivors a day following Israeli strike on a civil defence centre killed 14 emergency workers and volunteers.
The airstrikes come as Lebanon’s prime minister urged Iran to convince the Hezbollah militant group to agree to a cease-fire deal with Israel, which could require the group to pull back from the Israel-Lebanon border. Since late September, Israel escalated its bombardment of Lebanon, promising to cripple Hezbollah and end its barrages in Israel.
More than 3,400 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli fire 80 % of them in the past month says Lebanon’s Health Ministry. The Israel-Hamas war started after Palestinian militants stormed into Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people mostly civilians and abducting 250 others.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group began firing into Israel on October 8, 2023, in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza. Israel’s blistering 13-month war in Gaza has killed over 43,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to local health officials who do not distinguish between civilians and combatants. The fighting has left some 76 people dead in Israel, including 31 soldiers.
Israeli strikes kill 11 in Lebanon, including parents and their 3 kids Beirut: An Israeli airstrike killed five members of the same family in a home in Ain Qana in the southern province of Nabatiyeh, according to the media reoorts. The report said a mother, father and their three children were killed but didn’t provide their ages. Three other Israeli strikes killed six people and wounded 32 in different parts of Tyre province on Friday, also in south Lebanon, the report said.
Around 24 hours after an Israeli airstrike destroyed a centre for Lebanese emergency workers, officials said they were stopping efforts to find any more survivors beneath the rubble. The Lebanese civil defence service said in a statement that 14 rescue workers and volunteers were killed Thursday in Douris, near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon. Human remains that require DNA identification were also recovered.
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