The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that six soldiers had been killed in southern Lebanon, bringing to 47 the death toll of soldiers killed in the ongoing battles against Hezbollah since the ground offensive on Lebanese soil began. on September 30.
The army published the names of five soldiers who died in these battles, and the name of the sixth soldier is still waiting for permission to be distributed, according to the army statement. This is the highest death toll suffered by the Israeli army in a single conflict since the start of ground operations in southern Lebanon.
A year after Lebanon’s Hezbollah opened a cross-border front in support of the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, on September 23, the Israeli state intensified its raids on the party’s strongholds in southern and eastern Lebanon and sub- the southern cities of Beirut. On August 30, they announced the start of “limited” ground operations.
Beirut’s southern suburbs were subjected to a new wave of Israeli raids on Wednesday, the third in 24 hours, and at least eight people were killed in another attack targeting the Aramoun district south of Beirut, according to the Health Ministry. Lebanon. .
The suburb, in which between 600 and 800 thousand people lived before the war, according to estimates, most of the residents have left since Israel began to launch intensive raids on it at the end of the September. But many of them return in the morning hours to check on their homes and shops.
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2024-11-13 23:50:00
