BEIRUT, Lebanon
The death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon since Oct. 8, 2023, reached 2,672, while injuries increased to 12,468, said the Lebanese Health Ministry on Sunday.
The report added that the
total number of deaths from Israeli airstrikes on Saturday was 19, with
injuries reported at 108.
Meanwhile, 11 people,
including a Hezbollah security official, were killed and 25 others wounded on
Sunday in Israeli airstrikes targeting southern Lebanon, according to official
and military sources.
The military sources, who
spoke anonymously, told Xinhua that an Israeli drone targeted with two
air-to-ground missiles an apartment in a building in the Saida neighborhood in
Sidon city, killing Hezbollah official Hussein Fneish and seven of his family members
while wounding 25 others.
In a separate incident, an
Israeli airstrike on a center for the Al Risala Association for Health Care
killed three paramedics, bringing the number of paramedics killed by Israel to
167, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
Since September 23, the
Israeli army has conducted intensive attacks on Lebanon in an escalation with
Hezbollah. Earlier this month, Israel initiated a ground operation across its
northern border into Lebanon.
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