100 Israeli Warplanes Strike Lebanon
Israeli bombing in southern Lebanon, Aug. 25, 2024. Photo: X/ @geekonline
August 25, 2024 Hour: 7:58 am
Lebanon’s Health Ministry confirmed that the attacks resulted in the deaths of three people and the injury of two citizens.
In the early hours of Sunday, some 100 Israeli warplanes attacked southern Lebanon causing serious damage to property, crops and infrastructure, especially electricity and water systems, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
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The Emergency Operations Center of Lebanon’s Health Ministry said two people were killed in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Al Tiri, while another person was hit by Israeli drones while traveling in his car in the Lebanese municipality of Khiam.
The Lebanese ministry said two other people were wounded by the Israeli strikes: a Lebanese man whose injuries are light and a Syrian citizen who had to be admitted to a hospital for treatment.
On Sunday, the Lebanese Islamic resistance movement Hezbollah announced the start of a “large-scale” retaliatory operation against the Israeli regime for the assassination of its commander Fuad Shokr.
“As part of the initial response to the brutal Zionist aggression Beirut’s southern suburbs, which led to the death of the great leader of the jihad, Fuad Shukr, our forces began a large-scale airstrike towards the Zionist entity and towards a specific Israeli military target to be announced in the future,” it said.
At a meeting of the Emergency Ministerial Committee convened this morning to address the situation, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said he was “holding a series of calls with Lebanon’s friends to stop the escalation” between Zionist forces and Hezbollah.
However, he considered that “what is required is to first stop the Israeli aggression” against southern Lebanon that began on October 8, when Hezbollah attacked military targets in northern Israel in response to the Zionist offensive against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Speaking on this subject, Mikati confirmed Lebanon’s support for international efforts to reach a truce in Gaza, just as negotiations to agree a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave are scheduled to resume in Cairo. The Emergency Ministerial Committee also discussed the preparation of emergency cells in various areas of Lebanon in anticipation of an escalation of Zionist violence.
The Zionist bombardment of Lebanon today is the largest since the one launched in 2006, in which more than 1,000 Lebanese were killed. The attacks came amid escalating tensions in the region, including cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah since October 7, 2023, as well as ongoing efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, with the aim of preventing a wider conflict in the Middle East.
teleSUR/ JF Sources: Xinhua – EFE
