At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded last night in an operation in Ghana, in the south of the country, in Israeli attacks on Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Civil Defense.
In another action, at least 16 people were killed and 52 wounded in Israeli bombardment today in several parts of the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh, official sources said.
Instead, the Israeli military announced today that as of 4:00 pm local time (2:00 pm in Lisbon) about 90 rockets had been fired by Hezbollah against Israel.
An Iranian-backed Lebanese group fired rockets at the northern Israeli city of Safed for the third time in 24 hours.
Earlier, Hezbollah said it was engaged in close-quarters and automatic weapons fighting with the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, saying it had targeted one of its tanks with a guided missile.
Also today, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (FINUL) said an Israeli tank fired at its position near Kafar Kela in the south of the country, in an incident linked to earlier similar reports.
An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Merkava model tank fired at a UNIFIL position, destroying two surveillance cameras and damaging a tower, the international mission described in a statement, referring to the incident as “live visuals and apparently”. Deliberately against the United Nations troop position”
The Lebanese Council of Ministers described in its daily report that today’s attacks brought 190,698 displaced people registered in 1,076 reception centers in different parts of the country, especially in Mount Lebanon and Beirut governorates.
He also highlighted that the National Committee for the Coordination of Crisis Response Operations is working with all relevant ministries to obtain additional shelters in several provinces to receive more than 1.2 million displaced people, according to Lebanese officials. In many cases, homeless people sleep on the streets of the Lebanese capital.
At least 2,367 people have been killed and 11,088 injured since the war between Israel and Hezbollah began in October 2023, although the majority of victims were related to the 23rd year, the report also published data from the Ministry of Public Health. In September, Israeli forces intensified their attacks.
From September 23 to October 16 this year, 331,834 Syrian citizens and 129,338 Lebanese citizens crossed the border into Syria, the document noted, the General Secretariat of the Supreme Security Council.
In the last 24 hours, the Civil Defense carried out 81 operations, mainly to extinguish fires, and the Lebanese Red Cross carried out 422 operations, in which 23,401 batches of prepared food were distributed.
Faced with this situation, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati warned that his government cannot fulfill the basic needs of the people alone and highlighted the humanitarian assistance provided by many countries and international organizations and the United Nations. “Of great importance”.
The most recent hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah began on October 8, 2023, a day after the war in the Gaza Strip began, and have been limited to firefights along the Israel-Lebanon border for nearly a year.
However, in late September, Israel began a broad bombing campaign that focused on southern and eastern Lebanon, but also on the outskirts of Hezbollah’s stronghold of Beirut, where its leader, Nasrallah, was killed along with other senior officers of the Iranian-backed Lebanese Armed Forces.