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The death toll from the Israeli raid on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday has risen to 37, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
A statement issued by the Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health, Saturday afternoon, in a new update on the death toll from the Israeli raid on the southern suburbs of Beirut yesterday, said that the death toll had risen to thirty-seven people.
The rubble removal work is still ongoing until now.
Earlier today, Saturday, the Lebanese caretaker Health Minister, Firas Al-Abyad, announced that 31 people, including three children and seven women, had been killed so far as a result of the Israeli raid on the southern suburb yesterday, Friday.
Al-Abyad said, in a press conference today, that there are 68 wounded people who were transferred to 12 hospitals.
Al-Abyad revealed that the death toll from the last three Israeli attacks on Tuesday, Wednesday and yesterday in different areas of Lebanon reached 70.
Al-Abyad stressed that “the Israeli attacks on Lebanon are a clear war crime.”
An Israeli warplane launched a raid yesterday afternoon, Friday, targeting the “Al-Jamous” area in the southern suburb.
