The Ministry of Health said in a statement: “The death toll since the start of the Israeli attacks on… Lebanon It rose to 2,119, and more than 10,019 were injured.”
The ministry had said in a previous statement that “36 people were killed and more than 150 wounded in the Israeli attacks on Lebanon during the past 24 hours (Monday).”
On Tuesday, the Lebanese official media reported an attack Southern suburb Beirut, the main stronghold of Hezbollah, was subjected to a series of Israeli raids that led to “massive destruction,” after it was Israel It warned residents of the targeted neighborhoods that they must evacuate.
The official Lebanese National News Agency reported on Tuesday evening, “The southern suburb of Beirut is still being subjected to a series of raids, the last of which was at Nazlat al-Kafa’at, and they caused massive destruction, especially in Borj el-Barajneh Al-Kafa’at and Al-Laylaki, areas reported in previous statements to have been subjected to Israeli raids, while the aerial bombardment campaign, which Israel says targets infrastructure and facilities, has continued since September 23. For Hezbollah.
The agency later indicated that “four adjacent residential buildings collapsed in the Burj al-Barajneh area following the recent Israeli raid,” without clarifying whether there were casualties as a result of the attack.
Last week, Israel assassinated the Secretary-General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah In a bombing on Haret Hreik in the suburb Beirut Southern, a densely populated area, a large portion of whose population fled due to intense Israeli bombing.
Since then, the region has witnessed violent Israeli raids that reverberate throughout the Lebanese capital.