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Israel’s war on Lebanon enters day 22

Monday 14-October-2024

BEIRUT, (PIC)

The Israeli army has continued on Monday its aggression and escalated its military operations in Lebanon for the 22nd day, bombing inhabited homes and attempting to advance in its ground incursion in the country, amid fierce confrontation from the Islamic resistance at the border areas.

Israeli warplanes launched three airstrikes on separate areas of Lebanon and towards the border areas in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon on Monday morning, destroying nine Lebanese homes according to local sources.

The Israeli raids led to a number of injuries among Lebanese civilians in the Sidon area in southern Lebanon, according to the official Lebanese News Agency.

The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon launched a series of suicide drones on an Israeli military training camp of the Golani Brigade in Binyamina, south of Haifa in 1948 Occupied Palestine, killing at least four soldiers, and injuring 67, according to Israeli media sources.

The Islamic resistance said in a statement that these operations come in support of the steadfast Palestinian people and its valiant resistance in the Gaza Strip, and in defense of Lebanon.

On Sunday, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that the death toll of the Israeli attacks which targeted several areas of the country over the past 24 hours surged to 51 martyrs and 174 injured.

The health ministry said in a statement that the total number of victims since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon on October 8, 2023, reached 2,306 martyrs and 10,698 wounded, calling on the international community to immediately intervene to stop the attacks and provide the necessary assistance to the injured and displaced.

On Saturday, the Lebanese government emergency committee registered 78 air strikes, noting that the total number of attacks since October 8, 2023, surged to 9,666 attacks, 524 of which were carried out over the past week.

Earlier on Sunday, five Lebanese citizens were martyred in Israeli bombing of a house in the Nabatiyeh area, in southern Lebanon.

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