Analysts say it's Israel's largest aerial strikes against Hezbollah since 2006. Lebanon's Health Ministry say dozens of women and children are among the casualties.
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese village of Khiam, near the Lebanon-Israel border, on Monday.BEIRUT — Fighting has escalated at the Israeli-Lebanese border, as Israeli strikes killed nearly 500 people largely in southern Lebanon on Monday, according to Lebanese health authorities.Lebanon's Health Ministry has raised the death toll to 492, including 35 children, as well as 1,645 people injured in the Israeli attacks.
The Israeli military says it is fighting Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, to prevent an assault in northern Israel similar to the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel. Israel says it wants to degrade Hezbollah's rocket-launching capabilities, push Hezbollah fighters away from the border and allow Israeli families who evacuated the northern region to return home, as NPR's Daniel Estrin reported onThe Israeli military spokesman, Rear Adm.
Early Friday, the Israeli military spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, warned people living in southern and eastern Lebanon to leave their homes, as the air campaign against Hezbollah's fighters and positions increased and widened. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later called for people in Lebanon to heed Israel's warning if they received a message to evacuate their homes. “Please get out of harm’s way now,” Netanyahuit has “grave concern for the safety of civilians in southern Lebanon amidst the most intense Israeli bombing campaign since last October.” The group called for aTheir remarks came as world leaders gather in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly.
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