JERUSALEM The Lebanese Minister of Public Health, Firas Abiad, raised this Saturday to 31 the number of people killed in the Israeli bombing that hit a residential building on the outskirts of Beirut yesterday, and which also left 68 injured.
Israel hit a suburb of Beirut, capital of Lebanon, with an airstrike on Friday, not long after Hezbollah hit northern Israel with 140 rockets after the militant group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, vowed to retaliate against Israel. by massive explosions, reported the Israeli military forces and the Lebanese rebel group.
In a press conference, the head of the government department explained that three of the 31 dead were children and another seven were women, and added that “there are still unidentified remains.”
Of these 31 killed in yesterday’s bombing, at least 16 were members of the Shi-Leban group Hizbul, as confirmed by the movement in several statements in which it included the death of two senior officials, commander Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wahbi, leader of the body. of elite Radwan Forces.
Israeli military forces said they had carried out a targeted attack in Beirut.
Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen television reported that a drone launched several missiles at a heavily populated area known as Dahiyeh.
A member of Hezbollah, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, confirmed to The Associated Press that an airstrike had hit the area, without providing further details.
The attack came after Hezbollah hit Israel with 140 rockets, which the Israeli military said came in three waves and targeted sites along the devastated border with Lebanon.
After the attacks, Israeli military forces said they had hit areas in southern Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah infrastructure, but did not give details about the damage.
Hezbollah said its strikes had hit several sites along the border with Katyusha rockets, including several air defense bases as well as the headquarters of an Israeli armored brigade that it said it struck for the first time.
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The Israeli military forces reported that 120 missiles were launched at areas of the Golan Heights, Safed and northern Galilee, some of which were intercepted. Fire crews were working to extinguish fires caused by missile fragments that fell in several areas, according to the military.
They did not say whether any missiles had hit targets or caused casualties.
Another 20 missiles were launched at the Mern and Netu’a areas and most fell in open spaces, the military said, adding that no injuries had been reported.
Hezbollah noted that the rockets were in retaliation for Israeli attacks on towns and homes in southern Lebanon, not for the two days of attacks that were widely attributed to Israel, in which thousands of the militant group’s peacocks and walkie-talkies exploded.
On Thursday, Israel said its army had attacked hundreds of rocket launchers in southern Lebanon, saying they were ready to be used in the immediate future to fire into Israeli territory.
The army also ordered residents in some areas of the Golan Heights and northern Israel to avoid public gatherings, minimize travel and stay close to shelters in anticipation of the rocket launch that finally occurred on Friday.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging attacks almost daily since October 8, a day after the Hamas attack in southern Israel that sparked the war in the Gaza Strip. However, Friday’s rocket barrage was more intense than normal.