Insgesamt sind den Angaben zufolge im Libanon durch israelische Angriffe 3.386 Menschen getötet und 14.417 verletzt worden. Unter den Todesopfern waren demnach auch 658 Frauen.
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Lebanon death toll reaches 3,445
On Thursday alone, 59 people were killed, the ministry said.
Israel launches air strikes on Dahieh in southern Beirut
The Israeli Air Force on Friday said it carried out „intelligence-based“ air strikes on what it describes as Hezbollah „infrastructure“ in Dahieh, in southern Beirut.
Israeli strikes target Damascus suburb
“Israeli aggression targets Mazzeh area in Damascus,” the official Sana news agency‘s newsflash read.
The attack follows a deadly wave of strikes in and around the Syrian capital on Thursday which killed 23 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.
U.N. to bolster UNIFIL for post-truce support in Lebanon, peacekeeping chief says
The United Nations intends to bolster its peacekeeping mission in Lebanon to better support the Lebanese army once a truce is agreed but would not directly enforce a ceasefire, U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said on Thursday.
Israeli attacks kill 21 more people in Lebanon as death toll nears 3,400
At least 21 people were killed in Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 3,386, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Thursday.
Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs as death toll rises in Lebanon
Baalbek-Al-Hermel Governor Bashir Al-Khodr confirmed that rescuers pulled 12 bodies from the rubble, all for paramedics, after an Israeli airstrike hit a civil defense center in Baalbek, where over 20 people were sheltering.
The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that an airstrike on the Shaab neighborhood in Baalbek killed eight people, including five women, and left 27 others wounded.
The ministry added that four other people were killed in attacks on several locations in eastern Lebanon.
Israeli strike on Lebanon‘s Baalbek kills 15 rescuers
The death toll from Israel‘s strike on Baalbek, eastern Lebanon has risen to 15 civil defence members, Baalbek governor Bachir Khodr said on X.
Khodr adds that 10 bodies were identified, while the remaining five were recovered in pieces, requiring DNA testing.
„Mercy to the heroic martyrs and patience to their families,“ he said.
At least 16 people killed by Israel strikes across Lebanon
At least 16 people were killed and 18 wounded on Wednesday by Israeli strikes on Lebanon, the country‘s health ministry said.
The total casualty toll since 8 October 2023 now stands at 3,386 killed and 14,417 injured.
The ministry said 220 children were among the casualties.
Nearly 100,000 homes damaged in year of Hezbollah-Israel fighting in Lebanon: World Bank
More than a year of clashes that escalated into war in September have cost Lebanon more than $5 billion in economic losses and damaged nearly 100,000 housing units, the World Bank said Thursday.
The World Bank report provided estimates for damage between October 8, 2023, and October 27, 2024, saying „the conflict has caused $5.1 billion in economic losses“ and that it „damaged an estimated 99,209 housing units“ — mainly in Lebanon‘s war-torn south.
15 civilians martyred, 16 others injured in Israeli aggression on Damascus
Damascus, SANA-15 civilians were martyred and 16 others got injured in Israeli aggression on Mazzeh and Qudsaya areas in Damascus.
“At about 15:20 p.m. on Thursday, Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of residential buildings in Mazzeh neighborhood in Damascus and Qudsaya area in Damascus countryside, resulting in the martyrdom of 15 people and the injury of 16 others, including women and children, ” a military source said.
Russia asks Israel to avoid air strikes near Syrian base
Russia has asked Israel to avoid launching aerial strikes near one of Moscow‘s bases in Syria, a top official said on Wednesday.
US carried out strikes against Iranian linked targets in Syria
(November 11, 2024)
The U.S. military said on Monday it had carried out strikes against nine targets associated with Iranian groups in Syria.
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The U.S. has 900 troops in Syria, and 2,500 more in neighboring Iraq, on a mission to advise and assist local forces trying to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State, which in 2014 seized large swathes of both countries but was later defeated.
Israeli drones shooting children in Gaza deliberately ‚day after day‘, UK surgeon tells MPs
A retired NHS surgeon who recently returned from working at a hospital in Gaza said he treated children „day after day after day“ who had been deliberately targeted by Israeli drones following bomb attacks.
In harrowing testimony to British MPs on Tuesday, Nizam Mamode said of all the conflicts he had worked in, including the genocide in Rwanda, he and other experienced colleagues in Gaza had „never seen anything on this scale ever“.
He said at least once or twice daily, there were „mass casualty incidents,“ meaning that 10 to 20 people were killed and up to 40 seriously injured. He estimated that at least 60 percent of the people treated at these times were women and children.
Death toll in Lebanon rises to 3,287
The ministry said 44 people were killed and 88 wounded on Monday.
Seven civilians martyred, 20 others injured in Israeli aggression on Damascus countryside
“Nearly at 17:00 today, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial act of aggression from the direction of occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a residential building in Sayyidah Zaynab area of Damascus Countryside, which led to the martyrdom of seven civilians, including children and women, and the injury of twenty others, in addition to causing material damage to private properties” a military source said.
Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill 19 more, taking death toll to 3,136
(November 9, 2024)
The attacks have forced more than 1 million people to flee their homes, and they are in need of humanitarian aid.
UNESCO Calls Emergency Session for Lebanese Heritage Sites Imperiled by Israeli Bombing
UNESCO’s Special Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property will hold an emergency session on November 18 dedicated to heritage sites in Lebanon as Israel intensifies its bombing of Baalbek, a historic city in eastern Lebanon home to one of the world’s best-preserved Roman ruins.
At least 40 killed in Israeli strikes on eastern Lebanon
At least 3,050 people have been killed and 13,658 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began, according to Health Ministry figures.
Democrats Ignored Gaza and Brought Down Their Party
Over the past year, Israel’s slaughter and starvation of Palestinians — funded by U.S. taxpayers and live-streamed on social media — has triggered one of the greatest surges in progressive activism in a generation. Many Americans roused to action by their government’s complicity in Gaza’s destruction have no personal connection to Palestine or Israel. Like many Americans who protested South African apartheid or the Vietnam War, their motive is not ethnic or religious. It is moral.
Israel Bombs Refugee Camps After Inking $5.2 Billion Deal for US F-15 Fighter Jets
The agreement, part of a broader military aid package approved by the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress earlier this year, was finalized hours after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election to Republican nominee Donald Trump following a campaign in which she resisted calls to support an arms embargo against Israel.
85 thousand tons of bombs dropped by Israel on the Gaza Strip
(November 6, 2024)
According to a statement by the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority today, Wednesday, over 85,000 tons of bombs have been deployed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the conflict on October 7, 2023.
Amount of Israeli bombs dropped on Gaza surpasses that of World War II
(June 4, 2024)
Israel dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza Strip since last October, exceeding World War II bombings in Dresden, Hamburg, London combined, according to rights monitor
Erasing ‚Any Sign of Life,‘ Israeli Demolition Teams Razing Entire Villages in Lebanon
Satellite photos examined by The Washington Post, Reuters, and the Financial Times showed vast destruction caused by Israeli bombing and controlled demolitions of towns and villages, many of whose residents are among the more than 1.2 million people forcibly displaced by the war. (…)
„We‘re a family of artists, my father is well-known, and our home was a known cultural home,“ Lebanon Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Lubnan Baalbaki told Reuters after viewing satellite images confirming the destruction of his family home.
„If you have such high-level intelligence that you can target specific military figures, then you know what‘s in that house,“ Baalbaki added. „It was an art house. We are all artists. The aim is to erase any sign of life.“
Strikes in Gaza, Lebanon, as aid teams support ‘overwhelmed’ burns centre
Victims from airstrikes in Lebanon “overwhelmed the hospital”, the WHO official explained, insisting that it was critical to continue supporting “the only burns centre that’s available in the country. Off the 40 burns patients treated so far “25 per cent of them are children”, he said.
Initially equipped with 10 beds, the Geitaoui Hospital burns centre has had to expand to 25 beds, providing critical care to severely injured patients.
There are enough new trauma kits to treat 50 patients twice; each kit has two modules, one containing medications and other supplies, the other specialist burns treatments and dressings.
Expressing solidarity with Lebanon’s health professionals, the top UN aid coordinator in the country condemned ongoing military targeting of medical personnel and infrastructure, including ambulances which are “very much under attack”.
“We need to be supporting them with supplies, we need to be supporting them also need with advocacy,” said Imran Riza, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon. “There have been great violations of international humanitarian law that we are seeing. So, we need to make sure these are not happening, that health care workers can do what they‘re there for, helping people and saving lives.”
Hospital remains open in evacuated Lebanese city amid Israeli attacks | BBC News
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 3,000 people since October last year.
As Israel continues its intense bombardment, one of Lebanon’s main cities in the south, Nabatieh, is now largely empty.
Israel ordered the entire city to evacuate in early October.
Despite this, the city’s main hospital remains open, and emergency services are still operating for the approximately 200 families who remain there.
Israel destroys 37 towns, over 40,000 houses in deadly onslaught on Lebanon
The Israeli army has erased 37 towns and destroyed more than 40,000 housing units since the start of its deadly offensive on Lebanon last year, local media said on Tuesday.
The state news agency NNA said the destruction is concentrated in an area extending three kilometers deep from Naqoura to the outskirts of Khiam in southern Lebanon.
Israel’s path of destruction in southern Lebanon raises fears of an attempt to create a buffer zone
(November 1, 2024)
Israeli warplanes and ground forces have blasted a trail of destruction through southern Lebanon the past month. The aim, Israel says, is to debilitate the Hezbollah militant group, push it away from the border and end more than a year of Hezbollah fire into northern Israel.
Even United Nations peacekeepers and Lebanese troops in the south have come under fire from Israeli forces, raising questions over whether they can remain in place.
Lebanon Death Toll Passes 3,000 in Israel-Hezbollah War: Lebanese Officials
The death toll in Lebanon has grown to over 3,000, the country‘s health ministry said this week amid ongoing fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
On Monday, Lebanon‘s Health Ministry reported its new death toll from 13 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, noting that at least 13,492 others have been wounded.
Lebanon: UN condemns increasing loss of life and civilian suffering
Since October of last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that 110 healthcare workers have been killed in the line of duty in Lebanon. There have been at least 60 attacks on healthcare facilities over the past 13 months.
Death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon reaches 2,897
In the past 24 hours alone, 30 people were killed and 183 injured.
Mindestens 52 Todesopfer nach israelischen Angriffen auf Osten Libanons
Bei israelischen Angriffen auf den Osten des Libanons sind nach offiziellen Angaben mindestens 52 Menschen getötet worden. Das libanesische Gesundheitsministerium teilte am späten Abend mit, weitere mindestens 72 Personen seien verletzt worden. Zunächst war von zehn Toten die Rede gewesen. Aus libanesischen Sicherheitskreisen hatte es geheißen, es habe rund 16 israelische Luftangriffe auf mehrere Orte im Gouvernement Baalbek-Hermel im Nordosten gegeben. Laut der Mitteilung des Ministeriums gab es in 14 Ortschaften von Baalbek-Hermel Verletzte und Tote.
Israel strikes Beirut area; U.N. warns conditions in northern Gaza ‘apocalyptic’
The Israeli military on Friday carried out overnight strikes on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital for the first time in days, while U.N. leaders warned that the conditions in northern Gaza are “apocalyptic.”
Lebanese death toll from Israeli attacks climbs to 2,865
The dead included 178 medical staff and first-aid personnel, said the report.
The Lebanese government has set up 1,130 refugee centers to accommodate the displaced, of which 948 are at capacity. Currently, there are 189,174 displaced people staying in official refugee centers.
Israel has damaged or destroyed nearly a quarter of buildings in Lebanon’s south
Nearly a quarter of all buildings in 25 Lebanese municipalities near the Israeli border had been damaged or destroyed as of Saturday, according to an analysis of satellite data by The Washington Post — illustrating the far-reaching toll of Israel’s land and air war against Hezbollah.
Across the borderlands, at least 5,868 buildings have been damaged or destroyed, including nearly half of structures in the two hardest-hit areas, Ayta al-Shab and Kfar Kila. The vast majority of the damage — almost 80 percent — has occurred since Oct. 2, the day after Israel launched its ground invasion.
Lebanon death toll surpasses 2,700
(29.10.2024)
Over the last day alone, 82 people were killed, and 180 others injured, the ministry said.
“Save Us from Ourselves”: 3,000+ Israelis Call for Int’l Help to Pressure Israel to Back Ceasefire
Neve Gordon, welcome back to Democracy Now! Can you start off actually by talking about what this letter says? And the number of people is — the last time we looked, it was 2,000 Israelis who have signed it. Now it’s over 3,000, Professor Gordon.
NEVE GORDON: There’s a feeling among Israelis that the change cannot come from within. We do not have enough power from within to change the course of actions that Netanyahu and his government have put in place. And the only way to stop the violence, to stop the genocidal violence in Gaza, to stop the violence in Lebanon, and to stop future attacks and geopolitical war in the region is that leaders in Europe and leaders in North America, particularly the United States, put their leg down and say enough is enough and threaten Israel that if there is no ceasefire, they will sanction Israel, they will stop arms trade with Israel, they’ll stop sending Israel money, and ultimately stop trading with Israel. So, our belief is, to save the populations that inhabit this region, we need such an action.
«Citoyens israéliens, nous appelons à une pression internationale pour qu’Israël cesse le massacre»
Nous, citoyennes et citoyens israéliens, résidant en Israël et ailleurs, appelons la communauté internationale – l’Organisation des Nations unies et ses institutions, les Etats-Unis, l’Union européenne, la Ligue arabe, ainsi que tous les pays du monde – à intervenir immédiatement en appliquant contre Israël toute sanction possible afin d’obtenir un cessez-le-feu immédiat entre Israël et ses voisins. Et cela, pour l’avenir des peuples vivant en Israël Palestine et dans la région, et afin de garantir leur droit à la sécurité et à la vie. Mercredi, le chef du Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, a été tué par l’armée israélienne. Or, on craint que cette mort, qui a été annoncée comme la fin de l’offensive israélienne, ne soit qu’une étape de ce chemin meurtrier vers l’abîme.
Israelis are begging the world to save them from themselves!
The lack of true international pressure, the continuation of arms supplies to Israel, economic and security partnerships and scientific and cultural collaborations, bring most Israelis to believe that Israel’s policies enjoy international support. The leaders of many countries make repeated statements about the horror they feel and verbally denounce Israel’s operations, but these condemnations are not backed by practical actions. We are replete with empty words and declarations.
Please, for our futures and the futures of all of the residents of Israel and the region, save us from ourselves and use real pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire.