This Sunday, an Israeli strike targeted a house in Baalbeck, the main city in eastern Lebanon, without a prior call from Israel to evacuate, state media reported.
“Enemy planes launched a strike on a house in the al-Lakkis neighborhood” of the city, the National News Agency (Ani) reported.
Already more than thirty dead this Saturday
Earlier, Ani reported an unusual Israeli strike north of Beirut, on the Shiite village of Aalmat, located in a predominantly Christian region.
During the night and morning of Sunday, Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on villages and towns in southern and eastern Lebanon, where the Hezbollah movement is well established, Ani added.
On Saturday, Israeli strikes killed at least twenty people in the east and thirteen in the south, including seven rescue workers affiliated with Hezbollah and its Shiite ally Amal, according to Health Ministry figures.
2,700 people killed, mostly civilians, killed since the end of September
Israel has intensified its air campaign in neighboring Lebanon since September 23 and launched a ground offensive on September 30 in the south of the country, after a year of cross-border clashes between its army and Hezbollah.
The pro-Iranian movement opened a front against Israel to support Hamas, its ally, the day after the October 7, 2023 attack carried out by the Palestinian Islamist movement against Israel, which sparked the war in Gaza.
Israel says it wants to neutralize Hezbollah in the border regions of southern Lebanon to allow the return of 60,000 inhabitants to the north of its territory, displaced by incessant rocket fire since the start of the war in Gaza.
More than 2,700 people have been killed in Lebanon since September 23, the majority civilians, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
