Israeli strikes caused numerous victims on Sunday, November 10, in several countries involved in the violence that has been tearing the Middle East apart for many months. In Lebanon and Syria, they targeted buildings housing members of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, an ally of Iran and Palestinian Hamas, causing civilian victims in both cases, according to local authorities.
Bombings continued in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian territory relentlessly shelled by the Israeli army, which has set itself the objective of'”eliminate” the Islamist group, in retaliation for the terrorist attacks carried out on its soil on October 7, 2023. Here is what you should remember from this day.
Israeli strikes kill at least 38 people in Lebanon
At least 38 people killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, announced the Lebanese Minister of Health. Among them, 23 people died in a raid targeting a locality north of Beirut, “including seven children and six injured”according to the ministry, which adds in anticipation of a probable increase in this toll, that “human remains” were removed from the rubble ofa house. It was struck shortly after the arrival of a Hezbollah member who came to visit displaced people there, according to a security source at AFP.
Separately, at least 12 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the Baalbeck region in eastern Lebanon, as well as three rescuers affiliated with Hezbollah, killed in an Israeli strike on their center in the town of Adloun, in the south of the country, according to the ministry.
Banyamin Netanyahu authorized the pager attack against Hezbollah in September
Nearly two months after the events, Benjamin Netanyahu admitted for the first time to having given the green light to the pager attack against Hezbollah. During the weekly Council of Ministers, the Israeli Prime Minister declared that he had authorized this operation, announced his spokesperson, Omer Dostri. On September 17, at 3:30 p.m., beepers carried by members of Hezbollah exploded throughout Lebanon, almost simultaneously. After the explosion the next day of walkie-talkies belonging to the pro-Iran Shiite group, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced a toll of 39 dead and around 3,000 injured.
Unprecedented in its scale and its method, the beeper attack had never been openly claimed or commented on by Israel, although specialists from the intelligence services quickly assured that they recognized the mark of the Israeli Mossad.
At least 30 dead in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip
The Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza announced the death of at least 30 people, killed in two Israeli airstrikes on two separate houses in the Gaza Strip. The first strike made “at least”25 dead, including 13 children, in a family home in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, and “more than 30 injured” early in the morning, Civil Defense said. The bombing occurred around 6 a.m. “at a time when people here wake up and have breakfast”, testified a member of the family, Abdallah al-Najjar, quoted by AFP. “The house served as a refuge for people during intense bombings”he added. “They are all dead. There is no one left, only my mother and me.”
For its part, the Israeli army assured that it had targeted a site in an area of Jabalia “where terrorists were operating”, representing “a threat” to its troops.
Another house was hit, this time in the al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, killing at least five people, according to thePalestinian relief. “A number of civilians are still under the rubble”they clarified.
Israeli strikes kill at least seven people in Syria
“Israeli strike left at least seven dead and 14 injured, including women and children [dans le secteur de] Sayeda Zeinab”,south of Damas,declared to AFP the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), Rami Abdel Rahmane. The official Syrian press agency Sana announced the death of “seven civilians, including children and women” as well as around twenty injuredduring this strike on “a residential building”. The attack “targeted Hezbollah members in the building where Lebanese families and members of the movement live” pro-Iranian, said the director of the OSDH, an observatory based in the United Kingdom which has a vast network of sources in the country at war.
This sector of Sayyeda Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital, is home to an important Shiite sanctuary defended by pro-Iranian groups, including Hezbollah.
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