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About five hundred people died in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, including thirty-five children, according to the health ministry.
Malay Mail reports that the strikes on Hezbollah strongholds marked the deadliest day of cross-border violence since the Gaza war began.
Arab states have strongly criticized Israel for the escalating hostilities with Hezbollah. The war started after Hamas and other Palestinian militants launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7.
Israel claimed it killed a “large number” of Hezbollah militants when it hit about 1,000 sites in southern and eastern Lebanon.
Hezbollah said Ali Karake, its third-in-command, was alive and had moved to safety after a source said the strike on the capital targeted him.
While state media reported new raids in eastern Lebanon, Hezbollah said it targeted five sites in Israel. In the coastal Israel city of Haifa, people ran for cover when air raid sirens sounded.
According to Lebanon’s health ministry, the strikes killed 492 people, including 35 children and 58 women. It also wounded 1,645 others.
Global powers have urged Israel and Hezbollah to avoid an impending all-out war, as the violence has shifted from Israel’s southern border with Gaza to its northern frontier with Lebanon.
