Israeli strikes in Lebanon's Bekaa kill at least 60 in one day

Israeli strikes killed at least 60 people and wounded 58 more in various locations in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley amid a surge of intensified airstrikes Monday, Lebanese state media reported.

The highest death toll was in the town of Sahl Allak in the Baalbek province, where 16 people were killed, according to the National News Agency, which listed deaths in 12 different locations in the Bekaa.

In Ramm, also in Baalbek, an Israeli airstrike killed nine people, including a mother and her four children, and left one other person wounded, according to NNA.

Baalbek’s Mayor Bachir Khodr described the strikes as “the most violent day in Baalbek since the beginning of the aggression,” in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. He said people remained trapped under the rubble.

Israeli bombardment of the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, as well as of southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs, has intensified over the past several weeks as part of an offensive against the Hezbollah militant group that has also killed hundreds of civilians.