Toll from Israeli attacks has crossed 3,000, says Lebanon
The conflict between the two sides, which started in October 2023, has displaced nearly 1.2 million persons.
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More than 3,000 persons have been killed in Lebanon in the past 13 months, AP quoted the Lebanese health ministry as saying on Monday.
This toll is more than double the number of deaths that took place during the previous major conflict between Israel and Lebanon two decades ago, according to AP.
Israel has said it is conducting new military operations to target the infrastructure of militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets into northern Israel.
Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged near-daily strikes for over 10 months amid Tel Aviv’s war on the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza.
The conflict escalated in September with intense Israeli air strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon. This included the southern suburbs of Beirut. Hundreds of persons were killed and about 1.2 million people have been displaced, AP reported.
On October 1, the Israeli military launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, claiming that it was targeting Hezbollah weapons, command centres and a tunnel system near the border.
The Lebanese Health Ministry reported on Sunday that Israeli attacks had killed 16 more persons and injured 90 others, which took the overall toll in the country to 3,002. More than 13,490 persons have been injured so far.
The health ministry did not provide details of how many...
