At least 100 people were killed and more than 400 were injured in Israeli attacks on Lebanon, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said.
According to reports, there are women, children and health workers among the dead and injured.
A previous preliminary report stated that at least 50 people were killed and more than 300 wounded in the Israeli attacks.
Israel today launched its most widespread wave of airstrikes against what it said were hundreds of Hezbollah targets. According to Lebanese reports, at least 100 people were killed in the attacks. Israel has warned citizens to evacuate from areas where it claims the armed group has stockpiled weapons.
The latest attacks come amid some of the heaviest cross-border exchanges of fire in nearly a year of conflict, as Israel shifts focus to its northern border, where Hezbollah fires rockets into Israel in support of its ally Hamas, which is fighting a war with Israel in Gaza.
“We are deepening our attacks in Lebanon, the actions will continue until we achieve our goal of returning the residents of the north safely to their homes. These are the days when the Israeli public will have to show restraint,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said in a video that his office announced today.
He said this after the Israeli military targeted Iran-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the eastern Bekaa Valley and the northern region near Syria.
Lebanon’s health ministry said at least 100 people were killed, including women, children and medics, and more than 400 were injured in today’s Israeli attacks.
An Israeli army spokesman announced on the social network X that more than 300 Hezbollah targets had been hit so far, following an earlier warning that “airstrikes on houses in Lebanon where Hezbollah has hidden weapons are imminent.”
In response, Hezbollah said today that it launched rockets at Israeli military positions.
The airstrikes added pressure on Hezbollah, which suffered an attack last week that its secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, called “unprecedented in the history” of the group, after thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by its members exploded.
