This was one of the heaviest attacks in Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah began last month.
A total of 254 people died this Wednesday (08) in Lebanon after Israeli attacks, which took place even as attacks stopped under a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran. This was one of the heaviest attacks in Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah began last month.. More than 1,100 were injured, the country’s civil defense service said.
The highest death toll was in Beirut, where 91 people died. The Ministry of Health released a death toll of 182 across the country and said this was not a definitive number. On Wednesday afternoon, at least five consecutive attacks rocked the capital Beirut, sending plumes of smoke into the sky, as Israel’s military said it had launched the largest coordinated attack of the war.
More than 100 Hezbollah command centers and military installations were targeted in Beirutin the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon within ten minutes, they reported. The attacks raised questions about regional truce efforts, with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian saying a ceasefire in Lebanon was an essential condition of his country’s deal with the United States.
“The scale of the killing and destruction in Lebanon today is nothing short of horrific,” said UN human rights chief Volker Türk. “Such carnage, just hours after the ceasefire agreement with Iran, defies belief.”
*Reuters
