As the expanding Mideast war nears a one-year milestone, Israel launched targeted strikes in Lebanon overnight, where the conflict pushed further north.
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on Oct. 6, 2024. Israel unleashed intense strikes targeting Hezbollah on Sunday almost a year since the attack by Palestinian Hamas militants that sparked the war in Gaza.Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images/AFP
Meanwhile, just days after sending soldiers into southern Lebanon, the Israeli military has struck buildings and other targets it links to Hezbollah across Lebanon overnight. More Israeli troops are being moved to the border with Gaza to protect one-year commemoration ceremonies in communities affected by Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks last year that killed some 1,200 people and saw more than 200 hostages taken into Gaza.
Israel says its latest strikes targeted"weapons storage facilities and infrastructure sites,” but in the past two weeks similar strikes have also killed civilians, including children. The total death toll in Lebanon has now topped 1,000, and the Israeli assault has displaced more than a million people — around a fifth of the country's population.
“There is no safe place” Riqad said Saturday."The Israelis are bombing everywhere.” As he spoke, two young children in his family asked an adult relative if the bombs would reach them at the hotel where a politician affiliated with Hezbollah had granted shelter to them and other displaced families.
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