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Israel pounded Beirut's southern suburbs with a series of powerful airstrikes early yesterday morning after issuing evacuation orders to residents, in the first such strikes in days targeting the dense urban area, Reuters witnesses said.
The Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah facilities and assets, an assertion that it has repeated over the course of dozens of strikes over more than a month in the neighbourhood where the Iran-backed group holds sway.
Thousands of Lebanese fled the southern suburbs after fresh Israeli evacuation orders. The strikes followed a renewed but as yet of fruitless bout of US-led diplomacy aimed at getting a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon to stop over a year of fighting between Israel and Iran-backed groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
Strikes suggest Israel's 'rejection' of truce: Lebanon
Death toll in Lebanon rises to 1,829
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that Israel and Lebanon were moving toward understandings on what is required for implementing a long-violated UN resolution, 1701, that would be the basis for ending the current conflict.
But Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati yesterday criticised Israel's "expansion" of its attacks on his country, saying they indicated a rejection of efforts to broker a truce after more than a month of war.
Four Thai nationals were killed and one was injured by rocket fire near the town of Metula, close to the border between Lebanon and Israel, Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa posted on the social media platform X yesterday.
Since fighting in Lebanon escalated on September 23, after tit-for-tat cross-border exchanges which Hezbollah said were in support of Hamas, the war has killed at least 1,829 people in Lebanon, according to the health ministry figures.
The United Nations children's agency Unicef said Thursday that the war has caused the death of a least one child per day and wounded an average of 10 daily since October 4. Israel's military says 37 soldiers have been killed in Lebanon since ground operations began on September 30.
Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said the Israeli army carried out strikes on east Lebanon's main city of Baalbek on Thursday, two hours after it issued an evacuation order.
The Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah facilities and assets, an assertion that it has repeated over the course of dozens of strikes over more than a month in the neighbourhood where the Iran-backed group holds sway.
Thousands of Lebanese fled the southern suburbs after fresh Israeli evacuation orders. The strikes followed a renewed but as yet of fruitless bout of US-led diplomacy aimed at getting a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon to stop over a year of fighting between Israel and Iran-backed groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
Strikes suggest Israel's 'rejection' of truce: Lebanon
Death toll in Lebanon rises to 1,829
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that Israel and Lebanon were moving toward understandings on what is required for implementing a long-violated UN resolution, 1701, that would be the basis for ending the current conflict.
But Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati yesterday criticised Israel's "expansion" of its attacks on his country, saying they indicated a rejection of efforts to broker a truce after more than a month of war.
Four Thai nationals were killed and one was injured by rocket fire near the town of Metula, close to the border between Lebanon and Israel, Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa posted on the social media platform X yesterday.
Since fighting in Lebanon escalated on September 23, after tit-for-tat cross-border exchanges which Hezbollah said were in support of Hamas, the war has killed at least 1,829 people in Lebanon, according to the health ministry figures.
The United Nations children's agency Unicef said Thursday that the war has caused the death of a least one child per day and wounded an average of 10 daily since October 4. Israel's military says 37 soldiers have been killed in Lebanon since ground operations began on September 30.
Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said the Israeli army carried out strikes on east Lebanon's main city of Baalbek on Thursday, two hours after it issued an evacuation order.