Israeli occupation army intensifies its airstrikes on Lebanon

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Flames and smoke rise in an area targeted by an Israeli air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, October 6, 2024. Official Lebanese media said five Israeli strikes hit south Beirut and its outskirts during the night of Octobre 5, 2024, four of them "very violent", after the Israeli army called residents to evacuate the Hezbollah bastion. (Photo by Fadel ITANI / AFP)

The Israeli occupation army continued its aggression on Lebanon, intensifying airstrikes and artillery attacks across multiple regions, leaving a heavy toll on civilian, according to Al-Mayadeen.

According to the latest report from the Lebanese Ministry of Health, the death toll has risen to 3,117 with 13,888 injured since the start of the aggression.

In southern Lebanon, the occupation forces carried out airstrikes on the town of Shebaa, while artillery shelling struck the village of Kfar Shouba.

Other areas, including Kfar Tibnit and Qaaqaiyat al-Jisr, also sustained damage from Israeli bombardments.

Four civilians were reportedly martyred in the village of Ghandourieh due to Israeli airstrikes, as per the National News Agency (NNA).

Further escalations targeted Beirut’s Southern Suburb with air raids striking residential areas in Haret Hreik, Burj el-Barajneh, and Hadath, with 11 violent raids reported by NNA as of 11:50 pm.

Less than 10 minutes after the Israeli occupation army posted its so-called “evacuation orders” for different areas in Beirut’s Southern Suburb on X, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported the first Israeli raid on the region.

The occupation army’s orders included neighborhoods like Haret Hreik, Hadath, Roueiss, and Burj al-Barajneh. Despite Israeli claims that their strikes target buildings affiliated with the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, emerging footage documenting the aftermath of these airstrikes continues to prove otherwise.

The strikes caused significant destruction, with smoke and dust billowing over the targeted areas, including buildings near the Lebanese University campus in Lailaki.

Israeli drones were also reported flying at low altitudes over Beirut, heightening public alarm as “Israel” threatened to bomb additional residential buildings in the area.

In the eastern Bekaa Valley, Israeli jets launched airstrikes on the rugged outskirts of Hermel.

The NNA confirmed that another strike hit a house in the border town of Hosh al-Sayyed Ali, north of Hermel, close to the Syrian border.

The assault on the Bekaa region has left at least 782 dead since the escalation, with residents continuing to bear the brunt of the Israeli war’s expansion into rural and residential areas.

In addition to the above areas, Israeli forces targeted the towns of Jmaijmeh, Souaneh, Majdal Selem, Hanine, Shaqra, al-Teiri, and Kawnin with heavy air raids.

In Tyre, airstrikes hit an apartment in the al-Madrasa neighborhood, causing fatalities and injuries, while other raids were reported on the towns of Zawtar al-Sharqiah, Kfar Rumman, and the highlands of al-Rihan, where dozens were injured.

A source in the Civil Defense in Tyre told Al Mayadeen that nine were killed and 34 were wounded in three raids that targeted the city of Tyre, adding that operations to remove rubble to search for missing persons have stopped and will resume in the morning.