► Strikes on the suburbs of Beirut, including one near the airport
Violent Israeli strikes targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut during the night, including one near the international airport, which however continues to operate normally, the Lebanese Minister of Transport assured Thursday, November 7.
The Minister of Transport, Ali Hamié, assured on X that “the airport was operating normally”. “Planes take off and land” without problem, he said.
Earlier, Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee asked residents in four southern Beirut neighborhoods to evacuate, including a site near Beirut International Airport.
The Israeli army is also continuing its strikes against Hezbollah in the south and east of Lebanon where it has indicated that it has targeted dozens of targets and eliminated one “sixty terrorists” of the Shiite movement “in several strikes in Baalbek (east) and north of the Litani River”located about thirty km from the Israeli border.
► A car targeted near Beirut
An Israeli drone targeted a car on a major road linking Beirut to the Bekaa plain and Syria, the official National News Agency (ANI) said.
“An enemy drone targeted a car in Araya”the agency said, adding that the road had been cut. Last week, two vehicles were targeted by Israeli strikes on the same road, including a van loaded with Hezbollah ammunition.
► At least 40 dead on Wednesday in eastern Lebanon
At least 40 people were killed Wednesday evening by Israeli strikes on eastern Lebanon, notably the town of Baalbek, where rescuers are still looking for survivors in the rubble, the health ministry announced in the evening.
“The series of strikes by the Israeli enemy on the Bekaa Valley and Baalbek” have killed “40 people and injured 53”, the ministry said in a press release, specifying that this was a provisional assessment.
The toll includes eleven people killed in the city of Baalbek, including nine in the Shikan district, a highly populated Sunni district of the Shiite-majority city, where the Iran-backed Hezbollah group holds the upper hand.
The city’s famous Palmyra Hotel was also damaged by the nearby strikes and the health ministry said two people were killed there.
► Gaza: 230 patients evacuated
The Israeli body overseeing civil affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Cogat) and the WHO announced on Wednesday the evacuation of around 230 patients and their relatives from the Gaza Strip to the United Arab Emirates and Romania.
The patients left Gaza by bus through the Kerem Shalom crossing point in the southeast of the territory and were transported to Ramon airport near the Red Sea, said Cogat, an organization dependent on Israeli Ministry of Defense.
