The Lebanese health ministry has confirmed that the number of people who died as a result of attacks across Lebanon has risen to 356 people.
The ministry said 24 children and 42 women are among the dead, adding that at least 1,246 people wounded in the attack.
The National News Agency reports that several people have been killed and wounded in an Israeli air attack on Hadath, a village in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon.
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Meanwhile, Israel’s army says it has struck 1,100 targets with more than 1,400 types of ammunition across southern and eastern Lebanon in the past 24 hours.
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Israeli warplanes and drones carried out about 650 attacks, it said, targeting buildings, vehicles and infrastructure,” Aljazeera media network reports.
Israeli forces continue to carry out raids on “hundreds of targets in Lebanon”, it added.
These attacks have so far killed more than 356 people today, among them children.
In another development, Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has said that senior leader Ali Karaki, the head of the southern front, is alive and moved to a safe place, following an Israeli air raid on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
“Regarding the Zionist enemy’s claims that it assassinated Ali Karaki, we confirm that the leader is well and in good heath, and he moved to a safe place,” the group said in a statement on Telegram.
Israel said earlier it had targeted Karaki in its attack on the Dahieh neighbourhood.
Source: Aljazeera