For the tenth consecutive day, the Israeli occupation forces have continued their assault on southern Lebanon and the Bekaa region, extending their attacks to the southern suburbs of Beirut.
These raids have resulted in the deaths of hundreds and injuries to over 2,000 people.
An Israeli air raid on a civilian building housing a medical center in Al-Bachoura area, Beirut, left five martyrs and 11 injuries, according to the health ministry.
In Beirut’s southern suburb, Hezbollah’s media relations official, Mohammad Afif, led a tour for journalists on Wednesday to witness the devastation caused by Israeli airstrikes overnight and into the early hours of the day.
The strikes targeted various locations, including a recently evacuated civil defense center in Shiyah, buildings near the Jamous-Sfeir intersection, and areas surrounding Choueifat, Hadath, the American neighborhood, the Mujtaba Complex, and the Semaan Gallery. Additionally, the Five Wings Complex in Choueifat-Al-Amrousieh was also hit.
At midnight on Tuesday, Israeli warplanes launched multiple strikes on residential areas in the southern suburbs of Beirut, hitting Al-Ruwais, Al-Jamous, Al-Amrousieh, Al-Shiyah, Choueifat, and the Hadath and Semaan Gallery areas, as well as the American neighborhood.
In Beirut, Israeli warplanes attacked the Silver Tower residential building near Al-Zahraa Hospital in the southern suburbs and targeted an apartment near the Gondoline roundabout, close to the Kuwaiti embassy.
The Israeli raids extended to the south of Lebanon, where Arnoun in the Nabatieh district, the city of Nabatieh, Sanya in Jezzine, and the Rayhan heights were all targeted.
Further south, Israeli strikes on Burj Qalawaih in the morning martyred two people and wounded another. Eight additional raids targeted the Litani River and Khardali road, and airstrikes hit the town of Khiyam. Meanwhile, Israeli artillery shelled the towns of Taybeh and Deir Siryan.
The Lebanese Army reported that a soldier was injured in an Israeli drone strike while an army unit was clearing the Marjeyoun-Hasbaya road to facilitate the movement of civilians.
Later in the day, a massacre was reported in Aitaroun, where Israeli airstrikes martyred six people, including paramedics from the Islamic Health Society, with one person still missing. The airstrikes destroyed both the Islamic Health Society center and its clinic in Aitaroun, and while rescue teams were conducting relief efforts, they were targeted by an Israeli drone.
Another massacre occurred at dawn in Debel, Bint Jbeil district, when an Israeli airstrike destroyed a house, killing three people. Israeli planes also bombed the Civil Defense Center of the Islamic Health Authority in Ainata, Bint Jbeil district.
Throughout the evening, Israeli artillery shelled the towns of Yaroun, Maroun, Aitaroun, Blida, Bint Jbeil, Al-Tayri, and Kounine.
In the Bekaa region, Israeli enemy airstrikes hit large areas, including Baalbek and Hermel.
According to an Al-Manar correspondent, Israeli aircraft conducted 18 airstrikes targeting Douris, Al-Karak, Rayak, Harat Al-Fikani, Tamnin Al-Tahta, Ali Al-Nahri, Halbata, Kfardan, Boudai, Wadi Fara, Wadi Al-Nira, Al-Maaysara, Al-Bazaliya, and Hermel.
A strike on a house in Janta on the eastern slopes of the Lebanon Mountains resulted in the martyrdom of five civilians and multiple injuries.
A separate airstrike on Mashghara in western Bekaa claimed another life.
The Ministry of Public Health’s Emergency Operations Center announced that Israeli raids over the past 24 hours in southern Lebanon, Nabatieh, the Bekaa, Baalbek-Hermel, and Mount Lebanon have left 55 people martyred and 156 others wounded.
Source: Al-Manar English Website