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Israeli attack on Lebanon refugee site kills 32; Sunday’s death toll at 109

Monday, 30 September 2024 7:21 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 30 September 2024 8:09 AM ]

The photo shows the moment of Israeli attack on a refugee building in Ain al-Delb, east of Sidon, southern Lebanon, on September 29, 2024.

Israel has stepped up its aerial assaults on Lebanon, killing at least 109 people and wounding 364 others in the past 24 hours.

The Lebanese Public Health Ministry announced the casualties late on Sunday as the occupying regime continues to pound homes across the country and target commanders of the Hezbollah resistance movement.

According to the ministry, 32 of the 109 victims lost their lives in the Israeli airstrike that flattened a residential tower sheltering displaced families in the Ain al-Delb area, near Sidon in southern Lebanon.

Prime Minister Najib Mikati warned on Sunday that up to a million people in Lebanon may currently be displaced by Israel’s bloody attacks.

On Friday, Israel assassinated Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an air raid on the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh.

Reports said the terrorist act had been carried out by a squadron of Israeli F-15I jets equipped with US-supplied bunker-busting bombs.

Hezbollah confirms assassination of leader Nasrallah on Israeli strike on Beirut

The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance group has confirmed the assassination of its leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in massive airstrikes against Beirut on Friday evening.

It took place at the culmination of Israel’s intensified acts of terror and aggression in Lebanon since September 17-18, when the regime detonated near-simultaneously thousands of booby-trapped telecommunication devices belonging to Hezbollah members in public places.

Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging deadly fire since early October, shortly after the regime launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Over the past year, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,640 Lebanese people, including women and children, and injured 8,408 others.

Following Nasrallah’s assassination, Hezbollah vowed in a statement that it will “continue its fight to confront the enemy in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defense of Lebanon and its steadfast and honorable people.”

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