A bombing wave carried out by Israel against the Baalbek-Hermel region, in eastern Lebanon, causes at least 30 dead and 35 injured in one of the most violent days against this area since the beginning of the Israeli air campaign a little over a month ago.
“Today, 20 air raids against the province of Baalbek-Hermel They caused 30 deaths and 35 injuries.“, the governor of the region has denounced in his X account, Bachir Khodrwithout providing more details about the towns attacked during the day on Wednesday.
According to the Lebanese National News Agency (ANN), a bombardment against the Al Shaiqan neighborhood of the historic city of Baalbek, a town that the Israeli army has ordered evacuations on multiple occasions in recent days, has caused the death of at least five people.
The state media has also indicated that seven other people were killed in the border town with Syria Mishrifa, north of Hermel (Lebanon), where rescue teams have also recorded “several injuries” and continue with the debris removal work, so the number of fatalities could increase.
Furthermore, an early morning air attack against the city of Al Ain, in the eastern Bekaa Valley (Lebanon), has caused another seven dead, two injured and the “complete destruction of a house”according to the ANN.
In recent weeks, Israel has intensified its bombing against eastern Lebanon and against border areas with Syria – also in Syrian territory – since the Army of the Jewish State alleges that the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah stores weapons and ammunition in that eastern region of the country of the cedars.
More than 3,000 people have been killed and another 1.2 million have been displaced only in Lebanon since the beginning of the clashes between Israel and Hezbollah on October 8, 2023one day after outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip.
However, it is estimated that around 2,000 people have died since September 23 alonewhen the Israeli Army launched a massive bombing campaign against different parts of Lebanon and, a week later, began the ground invasion in the south.
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