More than 80 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, northern Gaza and Syria since Saturday night (9), according to reports.
The National News Agency (NNA) reported airstrikes in the city of Almat, in central Lebanon, on Sunday (10). Lebanon’s Health Ministry said 20 people had died, including three children. Video from the scene shows that at least one building was destroyed, with heavy machinery trying to remove the rubble.
Local MP Simon Abi Ramia said: “The house that was hit belongs to one of the area’s best-known residents and it is possible that it hosted homeless people.”
Three more people were killed in an attack on Mashghara, a city in south-central Lebanon, and an airstrike was carried out on the city of Debaal in the Tire district of southern Lebanon, the agency added, while “intermittent shelling of Israeli artillery continues to the city of Khiam.”
At least 2,513 people have been killed and 11,719 injured in Lebanon since September 16, when Israel intensified its campaign against Hezbollah, according to a survey by the CNN statements from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
The latest bombings come after attacks on more than a dozen different locations in Lebanon since Saturday night.
The largest number of casualties occurred in an airstrike on what the NNA said was a civil defense center affiliated with the Al-Rissala Islamic Scout Association in the city of Deir Qanoun.
Seventeen people died in the attack, the NNA said, adding that rescuers were continuing search operations in the rubble. Video from the city showed extensive destruction.
Five people were killed in an airstrike in the city of Hanawaih and there were attacks on buildings in nearly a dozen other locations. Additionally, artillery shelling hit the cities of Majdal Zoun, Tair Harfa, al-Dhaira and other places.
The Israeli military said on Saturday that airstrikes were carried out in the areas of Tire and further north in Baalbek.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday night that the air force had “eliminated dozens of Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon over the past day.”
The IDF also said on Sunday that rockets continued to be fired from southern Lebanon. “Approximately ten projectiles were identified crossing Lebanon into Israeli territory. Some of the projectiles were intercepted and the rest fell in open areas,” he said. Nobody was injured.
In northern Gaza, at least 41 people died when Israeli strikes hit two homes on Sunday morning, according to the director general of the enclave’s Ministry of Health.
Dr. Muneer Alboursh said one of the houses was in Jabalia, while the other was in Gaza City. He added that
The international NGO Save the Children said in a post on X that parents, children and grandchildren were among those killed in the Israeli attacks on Jabalia’s home.
The Israel Defense Forces said it had struck “a terrorist infrastructure site in the Jabalia area” in response to Israel’s request for comment. CNN.
“These terrorists posed a threat to IDF troops operating in the area. Details are under review,” the Israeli military said, adding that “numerous measures were taken to mitigate the risk of harm to civilians, including the use of aerial surveillance and accurate intelligence” before Sunday’s attack.
A CNN contacted the IDF for comment on the alleged attack on the house in Gaza City.
Hossam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, said the hospital received “many distressed calls from people, including those who were still trapped under the rubble and whom we were unable to help.”
“Catastrophic conditions continue at Kamal Adwan Hospital in besieged northern Gaza,” Safiya said in a video recorded on Sunday and posted to X by Alboursh.
The reported attacks in Gaza come as the United States’ deadline for Israel to improve humanitarian conditions in the enclave approaches.
Last month, the Biden administration called on Israel to take “urgent and sustained action” to get more aid into the pipeline within the next 30 days, or risk violating U.S. laws governing foreign military assistance.
A World Health Organization report on food availability in Gaza concluded on Friday that there was “a strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas in the north of the Gaza Strip,” where many of the recent Israeli operations.
The report cited UN data that the number of aid shipments to the Gaza Strip was now lower than at any time in the last year.
A saying that such reports in the past “have been systematically based on organizations with vested interests and partial and inaccurate knowledge.”
In Syria, at least seven civilians were killed and 20 injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the Sayyida Zainab area of rural Damascus, Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Sunday, citing a Syrian regime military source. .
SANA said women and children were among the dead and that private property was damaged.
A CNN contacted the FDI for comment but did not receive a response.
Verified social media videos CNN show damaged buildings in Sayyida Zainab, with rubble scattered across the street. Video shot from a building shows damage to one of the upper floors of a structure across the street. The video then reveals damage and debris on the ground floor of the building from which it was filmed.
The Sayyida Zainab area, south of the city of Damascus, is known to have a Hezbollah presence and has been attacked by Israel in the past. On November 4, SANA reported Israeli strikes on Sayyida Zainab on the same day that the IDF said Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck Hezbollah intelligence infrastructure in the Damascus area.
