Seven civilians killed in rocket hearth from Lebanon as Israeli forces conduct lethal air raids on Beirut.
4 Thai agricultural employees have been killed in Hezbollah rocket assaults on northern Israel, because the Israeli military hit Lebanon’s capital with a number of air strikes.
Posting on social media platform X on Friday, Thai Overseas Minister Maris Sangiampongsa mentioned he was “deeply saddened” by the deaths near the city of Metula on Thursday, including that one other Thai citizen was injured.
“Thailand continues to strongly urge all events to return to the trail of peace, within the identify of the harmless civilians gravely impacted by this extended and deepening battle,” Maris added.
Israeli medics mentioned late on Thursday that three Israeli civilians had been additionally killed within the rocket barrages from Lebanon, the deadliest cross-border assaults for the reason that battle between Israel and Hezbollah escalated in August.
An estimated 30,000 Thai nationals reside in Israel, the place salaries are a lot larger than within the Southeast Asian nation.
Thai nationals in Israel have been hit for the reason that begin of Israel’s battle in Gaza final October. More than two dozen Thais had been believed to have been captured throughout the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel that month, and 23 had been launched from captivity throughout a short truce in November 2023.
The Israeli military had mentioned two different Thai nationals died in captivity in Gaza in Could.
Whereas there have been near-daily cross-border assaults between Israel and Hezbollah for the reason that Gaza battle began, Israel intensified its air assaults and killings of Hezbollah leaders because the battle entered its second 12 months.
In Lebanon, at the least 2,865 individuals have been killed and 13,047 wounded in Israeli assaults for the reason that battle on Gaza started, with 45 individuals killed throughout the nation previously 24 hours, in response to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Well being.
On Friday, Lebanon’s Nationwide Information Company (NNA) reported that Israeli fighter jets hit at the least 10 targets in a number of neighbourhoods south of the capital Beirut, leading to casualties.
“The raids left huge destruction within the focused areas, as dozens of buildings had been levelled to the bottom, along with the outbreak of fires,” NNA mentioned.
Lebanese media mentioned at the least two individuals had been killed and 4 injured within the Israeli assaults.
Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr mentioned the strikes adopted one other “failed diplomatic try” to finish the combating, as prime United States officers Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk had been in Israel on Thursday for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Often, after they maintain talks in Israel, they go to Beirut afterwards. This time they didn’t, which is known as a clear indication that there isn’t a progress or breakthrough,” Khodr mentioned.
The Israeli navy has continued to difficulty compelled displacement orders in Lebanon, together with for the whole metropolis of Baalbek within the east, rendering tens of hundreds of individuals homeless.
“It’s a technique – displacement. It’s a type of stress, identical to these air strikes,” Khodr mentioned.
