Ahlulbayt News Agency: The Israeli regime’s warplanes have conducted extensive airstrikes against towns and villages across Lebanon, killing at least 300 people.
Lebanon’s health minister Firass Abiad announced the death toll on Monday, saying martyrs included 21 children, 39 women and two medics.
The health minister said at least 1024 others had also been wounded in the attacks that targeted the areas earlier in the day.
The casualties included “children, women, and emergency workers,” according to the health ministry added.
Abiad said that the health ministry is working to ensure those injured in Israeli strikes are getting the health care they need.
The health minister said he had asked hospitals to stop taking regular, light cases to make space for the wounded from the south.
“We working on directives for the first-aid centres to be turned into places that can receive the wounded. The displaced people who have cancer, kidney failure and other chronic diseases, we have the plan to continue their treatment in different medical centers,” he said.
The country’s media outlets said the aircraft had bombed all the towns and villages lying on the southern border as well as their surroundings.
Israeli warplanes also reportedly targeted eastern Lebanese areas, including the Bekaa Valley.
Lebanese sources said the airstrikes had targeted a total of more than 40 areas in Lebanon during the attacks.
Israeli media outlets, meanwhile, alleged that the attacks had hit locations lying as far as 125 kilometers (77 miles) inside the Lebanese territory.
Israeli military spokesman Danieh Hagari said the regime "will engage in [more] extensive and precise strikes” against Lebanon, adding that the attacks would "go on for the near future.”
The regime has markedly intensified its attacks against the country since October 7, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has responded with numerous strikes against the occupied Palestinian territories as a means of both retaliating against the regime and displaying support for the war-hit Gazans.
On Sunday, the group staged its farthest-reaching strikes against the territories since October, firing scores of rockets against the Ramat David Airbase, 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of the city of Haifa, and the Rafael weapons manufacturing facility in the Zevulun area north of the city.
It described the strike against the facility as its “initial response” to the regime’s detonation of thousands of booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkie radios that killed at least 39 people and wounded 3,000 others across Lebanon over Tuesday and Wednesday.
Also on Sunday, Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said the movement was in a "new phase" in its battle against the regime.
"Threats will not stop us... We are ready to face all military possibilities,” he noted.
Qassem made the remarks while attending the funeral of Ibrahim Aqil, one of the group’s senior commanders.
Aqil had been martyred alongside 37 others, including three children and seven women, during an Israeli attack on a residential building in a southern suburb of Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Friday.
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Lebanon’s health minister Firass Abiad announced the death toll on Monday, saying martyrs included 21 children, 39 women and two medics.
The health minister said at least 1024 others had also been wounded in the attacks that targeted the areas earlier in the day.
The casualties included “children, women, and emergency workers,” according to the health ministry added.
Abiad said that the health ministry is working to ensure those injured in Israeli strikes are getting the health care they need.
The health minister said he had asked hospitals to stop taking regular, light cases to make space for the wounded from the south.
“We working on directives for the first-aid centres to be turned into places that can receive the wounded. The displaced people who have cancer, kidney failure and other chronic diseases, we have the plan to continue their treatment in different medical centers,” he said.
The country’s media outlets said the aircraft had bombed all the towns and villages lying on the southern border as well as their surroundings.
Israeli warplanes also reportedly targeted eastern Lebanese areas, including the Bekaa Valley.
Lebanese sources said the airstrikes had targeted a total of more than 40 areas in Lebanon during the attacks.
Israeli media outlets, meanwhile, alleged that the attacks had hit locations lying as far as 125 kilometers (77 miles) inside the Lebanese territory.
Israeli military spokesman Danieh Hagari said the regime "will engage in [more] extensive and precise strikes” against Lebanon, adding that the attacks would "go on for the near future.”
The regime has markedly intensified its attacks against the country since October 7, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has responded with numerous strikes against the occupied Palestinian territories as a means of both retaliating against the regime and displaying support for the war-hit Gazans.
On Sunday, the group staged its farthest-reaching strikes against the territories since October, firing scores of rockets against the Ramat David Airbase, 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of the city of Haifa, and the Rafael weapons manufacturing facility in the Zevulun area north of the city.
It described the strike against the facility as its “initial response” to the regime’s detonation of thousands of booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkie radios that killed at least 39 people and wounded 3,000 others across Lebanon over Tuesday and Wednesday.
Also on Sunday, Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said the movement was in a "new phase" in its battle against the regime.
"Threats will not stop us... We are ready to face all military possibilities,” he noted.
Qassem made the remarks while attending the funeral of Ibrahim Aqil, one of the group’s senior commanders.
Aqil had been martyred alongside 37 others, including three children and seven women, during an Israeli attack on a residential building in a southern suburb of Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Friday.
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