Schools were closed on Monday in Beirut, the day after Israeli attacks targeted the city, killing the media head of Hezbollah, a movement against which Israel has been at open war since the end of September. This country also suffered new deaths in Gaza
The Israeli army, fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon and against its Palestinian ally Hamas in the Gaza Strip, has carried out new attacks on these two fronts since the night. Eight people were killed in bombings early Monday on the center and south of the besieged Palestinian territory, according to Gaza Civil Defense.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah announced the death of four members of its media team along with its spokesperson. “Public and private schools and private higher education institutions which provide face-to-face classes” will remain closed until Tuesday inclusive, according to the Ministry of Education. Many schools in the country have already been transformed into reception centers for residents displaced by the conflict.
Hezbollah leadership decimated
The closure of establishments in the capital comes the day after two Israeli bombings in the center of Beirut, which left at least six dead, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, and one of which cost the life of the main spokesperson of Hezbollah, Mohammad Afif.
The Israeli army, whose massive air raids since September 23 have largely decimated the movement’s leadership, confirmed Sunday evening the death of this official, whom it described as “head of propaganda” of the Shiite militia.
A member of Hezbollah since the early 1980s, he was part of the close circle of the movement’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, killed by Israeli aircraft at the end of September in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah.
Store destroyed
Israel also began ground operations in southern Lebanon on September 30, after a year of cross-border violence initiated by the armed movement in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas, which displaced tens of thousands of residents of border areas in both countries.
In one of the attacks on Sunday in the center of Beirut, “a projectile entered our shop and exploded here”, lamented Monday morning Choukri Fouad, one of the traders on Mar Elias Street, where charred cars rub shoulders with rubble. .
“The oil tanks” where residents store fuel “exploded”, causing a fire, he added to AFP: “in a quarter of an hour, the work of a lifetime was lost”.
Even weakened, Hezbollah claims daily fire on Israel, whose troops it claims to push back into the south. The Israeli army reported on Monday about 30 projectiles fired from Lebanon.
Nearly 3,500 dead in Lebanon
In 13 months of hostilities, more than 3,480 people have been killed in Lebanon according to the Ministry of Health, the majority since September 23. On the Israeli side, 45 civilians and 78 soldiers were killed.
Last week, Lebanon said it was considering a proposed US truce in the war between Israel and Hezbollah, while Hamas said it was ready for a ceasefire in Gaza. However, the two wars have so far shown no sign of abating.
Four members of a family killed in Gaza
The Israeli army continues its deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the Hamas attack on its soil on October 7, 2023.
According to Civil Defense, among the eight deaths recorded in the morning, four were members of the same family, killed in an Israeli strike on a tent in the Al-Mawasi displaced persons camp, near Khan Younes (south).
Nearly 44,000 dead in Gaza
When the cold arrived, dozens of other tents were destroyed, a witness, Said Al-Burai, described to AFP. “The powerful explosion caused a fire, plunging the area into chaos,” to the screams of “women and children,” he relates.
Israeli attacks carried out relentlessly for more than a year in the besieged territory plagued by a humanitarian disaster left at least 60 dead there on Sunday, more than half of them in Beit Lahia, in the north, according to Civil Defense.
The Israeli army launched a major ground operation in the area on October 6, forcing hundreds of thousands of Gazans to flee, according to it to prevent Hamas from reconstituting its forces there.
The war in the Gaza Strip, which has displaced almost the entire population of some 2.4 million people, has left at least 43,922 dead, mostly civilians, according to the Hamas health ministry. , whose data is considered reliable by the UN.
This article was automatically published. Sources: ats / afp
