At least thirteen people have been killed, including a child, and another 57 wounded in an Israeli bombardment overnight in the vicinity of a public hospital in the south of the Lebanese capital, which Israel has been attacking for a month.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health has reported in a statement that Israeli aircraft launched an attack in the vicinity of the Rafic Hariri hospital, killing 13 people and wounding almost 60, of whom seven are in serious condition, according to the Ministry. Furthermore, the attack “caused significant damage to the hospital,” one of the most important in Beirut.
Israel resumed bombing on Monday on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, especially against neighborhoods such as Haret Hreik, Al Ruwais and Al Ghobeiry, as well as an area near the Beirut International Airport. The southern suburbs are considered strongholds of the Shiite group Hezbollah, against which Israel is launching an intense air campaign throughout Lebanon, in addition to ground operations in the south of the country, which it invaded in early October.
In a statement this Tuesday, the Israeli Army indicated that it attacked some 230 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon during the day on Monday. For its part, Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for three attacks with “qualitative missile barrages” against an Israeli Intelligence headquarters and a military base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, as well as a naval base located northwest of Haifa, in northern Israel. .
Yesterday, Monday, the American mediator Amos Hochstein returned to Lebanon to try to find a negotiated solution to the conflict, based on the UN Security Council resolution that ended the last war between Israel and Hezbollah, in 2006. The envoy has warned that this time additional guarantees are needed for that resolution to be respected.
This Tuesday, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, arrived in Tel Aviv to meet with the authorities with the aim of resuming negotiations between Israel and Hamas for the release of the Israeli hostages who remain in the hands of the group and the ceasefire in Gaza.
After the assassination by Israeli troops of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on October 16, both Washington and other international actors have urged to resume talks and take advantage of this opportunity to reach an agreement, since Sinwar was supposedly opposed. to that pact, according to Israel and the US.
“Secretary Blinken will speak about the importance of ending the war in Gaza, achieving the release of all hostages, and alleviating the suffering of the Palestinian people,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.
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