Attack on Lebanon.
At least 11 people were killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Friday. This included a mother, father and their three children living in one house. Because one day after the Israeli attack on a civilian, rescuers stopped searching for survivors. 14 emergency workers and volunteers died at the defense center.
The airstrikes come as Lebanon’s prime minister apparently urged Iran to persuade the militant group Hezbollah to accept a ceasefire deal with Israel that could require the group to withdraw from the Israel-Lebanon border.
Since late September, Israel has dramatically increased its bombing of Lebanon, vowing to paralyze Hezbollah and end its blockade of Israel. Lebanon’s Health Ministry says more than 3,400 people have died in Lebanon due to Israeli gunfire. 80 percent of them have died in the last month.
The war between Israel and Hamas began when Palestinian militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping another 250. The Lebanese group Hezbollah began shooting at Israel on October 8, 2023, in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza.
Israel’s brutal 13-month war in Gaza has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to local health officials. Some 76 people, including 31 soldiers, have been killed in the fighting in Israel.
Israeli strikes kill 11 people in Lebanon, including parents and their three children. Lebanese state media said an Israeli airstrike killed five members of a family in a house in Ain Qana, in the southern province of Nabatieh. The report said a mother, father and their three children were killed, but their ages were not provided.
Six people were killed and 32 wounded in three other Israeli attacks in different parts of Tire province on Friday, the report said. Nearly 24 hours after an Israeli airstrike destroyed a center for Lebanese emergency workers, authorities said they were pausing efforts to search for more survivors under the rubble.
The Lebanese Civil Defense Service said in a statement that 14 rescuers and volunteers died on Thursday in Douris, near Baalbek, in eastern Lebanon. Human remains requiring DNA identification were also recovered. In an earlier statement on Friday, the Directorate General of Civil Protection condemned the attack, expressed its deep regret and reaffirmed its commitment to its humanitarian mission despite the challenges and sacrifices.
The UN humanitarian agency expressed concern over the growing number of Israeli airstrikes against densely populated areas of Lebanon, calling the casualties and displacement disappointing. In three waves of new attacks on Friday, Israeli forces attacked more buildings in the southern suburbs of Beirut, causing explosions in an area called Dahiyah.
In a warning notice on Twitter, an Israeli military spokesman said the airstrikes targeted Hezbollah facilities and interests, without giving further details. In a post on Twitter, the UN humanitarian agency (OCHA) said indiscriminate attacks are prohibited under international law and stressed the importance of avoiding disproportionate harm to civilians.
The visit by Ali Larijani, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, comes amid US-led efforts to end the 13-month war that has spread to southern and eastern Lebanon, as well as the suburbs. south of Beirut in September. Media reported that the US ambassador to Lebanon presented a draft of a proposed agreement to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
13 people were killed in an airstrike in the eastern Lebanese city. Beirut Rescuers searched for missing people in the rubble near the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, where an Israeli attack the night before targeted a civil defense center. According to the Lebanese Civil Defense, 13 bodies were recovered, all of them emergency services staff and volunteers. Some other remains have also been recovered that will require DNA testing, according to a statement.
