Israel strikes Dahieh, says 5 soldiers killed in south Lebanon
Israeli strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs onvernight, shortly after Israel issued evacuation warnings.
Israeli warplanes launched strikes on Choueifat, Hadath, Haret Hreik, and Borj al-Barajneh.
- Five Israel soldiers killed in south Lebanon -
The Israeli army said on Friday that five soldiers were killed and two others seriously wounded in fighting in southern Lebanon.
The soldiers "fell during combat in southern Lebanon" the previous day, the army said in a statement, bringing the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon to 32 since the start of the ground operation on September 30.
- 3 injured in Israel's Majd Al-Krum -
Shrapnel from a rocket attack from Lebanon critically injured three people in Israel Friday, Israeli rescue services said.
The three — two 21-year-old men and a 35-year-old woman — were injured in Majd Al-Krum, a predominantly Arab town in the country’s north, rescue services said. It said six others were injured, including an 80-year-old man in serious condition.
Israel’s military said the rocket barrage hit a gym in the town.
Militants in Lebanon fired 45 projectiles into Israel Friday, including some which were intercepted by Israel’s air defenses and others that fell in open areas, the military said.
- 3 children among 12 killed in Israeli strikes on east -
Three children were among 12 people killed in Israeli strikes on Thursday on two villages in the country's east, one month into the Israel-Hezbollah war.
"The Israeli enemy strike on Al-Khodr in the Baalbek-Hermel region killed seven people including three children," the ministry said, adding that another Israeli attack in the same area "killed five people".
- 163 rescuers, health workers killed in year of Israeli strikes -
Caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad said Friday that Israel has carried out attacks on 55 hospitals — 36 of which were directly hit — leaving 12 people dead and 60 wounded.
Abiad told reporters that eight hospitals have been closed while seven are still partially functioning.
He said that paramedic groups have been targeted in different areas, killing 151 people and wounding 272. Of the paramedics killed, eight remain in their ambulances in south Lebanon with Israel’s military preventing anyone from reaching them, he said.
"Attacks against the medical and paramedic sectors in Lebanon are direct and intentional aggressions," Abiad said, adding that Israel’s military claims to have intelligence information on what is happening in Lebanon, thus cannot say that these attacks happened by mistake.
"This is a war crime," Abiad said.
- Israeli strike closes Lebanon-Syria crossing -
An Israeli airstrike in northeast Lebanon has closed another border crossing with neighboring Syria, Lebanon’s state news agency said Friday.
The airstrike on the outskirts of the village of Qaa brings the number of border crossings between the two countries that have been struck by Israel’s military to three. That leaves three functioning border crossings.
An Israeli airstrike on Oct. 5 blocked a highway and left a giant crater near the Lebanese side of the crossing, known as Masnaa, about 50 kilometers from Beirut. Masnaa is the busiest border crossing between the two countries.
In late September, an Israeli airstrike struck the border crossing of Matraba in Lebanon’s northeast, forcing it to close.
Source: Agence France Presse
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