The death toll from an Israeli attack on a Beirut suburb has risen to 45

Wassim Saif Al-Din/Anatolia

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that the death toll from the Israeli attack on the south bank of Beirut on Friday had increased from 37 to 45, including children and women.

The ministry said in a statement, reported by Anatolia, that “the number of martyrs as a result of the Israeli attack on Beirut has increased to forty-five people. “

She confirmed that the work to remove the debris continues for the third day in a row, “coordination has been made with the security services, and forensic evidence is in the General Directorate of the Side Security Forces inside started taking samples from the bodies of martyrs. in hospitals whose identity has not yet been confirmed, to carry out DNA tests and confirm the identity of their owners.”

On Saturday, the ministry said in a statement that the death toll from the Israeli attack on a building in the suburb of Beirut had reached 37, in addition to 68 wounded.

The Israeli army previously said in a statement that they killed the famous Hezbollah army chief, Ibrahim Aqeel, and other leaders (he did not name them), which the party later confirmed.

After the attack, Hezbollah mourned 16 of its members, including two prominent military leaders: Aqeel, the party’s second-ranking military officer, after Fouad Shukr, who was assassinated by Israel in July -last year, and Ahmed Wehbe, “responsible for the main training unit. “

This is the third attack that Israel has launched on the south bank of Beirut, Hezbollah’s main stronghold in Lebanon, since the current wave of conflict began almost a year ago, as was the previous assassination, on January 2, the deputy chief. the head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, Saleh Al-Arouri, before her assassination, Fouad Shukr.

This week, the war between Hezbollah and Israel escalated after the explosion of communications devices across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, which left 37 dead and more than 3,250 injured, as well as the attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut .

Since October 8 last year, Lebanese and Palestinian groups in Lebanon, especially Hezbollah, have exchanged daily bombs with the Israeli army across the dividing “Blue Line”, resulting in hundreds of killed and wounded, most of them on the Lebanese side.

These groups want an end to the war waged by Israel, with American support, on the Gaza Strip since October 7, which has left more than 136,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid great destruction and deadly famine.

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