No less than 14 individuals have been reported killed and 15 others injured following an Israeli air strike in town of Ain Yaaqoub within the far north of Lebanon.
The Israeli missile that hit a constructing on Monday the place 30 individuals have been residing, together with Syrian refugees, marked the northernmost level in Lebanon attacked to date by Israeli forces since combating started in October 2023.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Well being (MoPH) initially stated eight individuals have been killed and 14 others have been injured, which Ain Yaaqoub’s Mayor Majed Drbes later revised to 14 and 15, respectively.
“Displaced individuals lived within the two-storey home,” Rony al-Hage, an area official, informed the AFP information company.
“Rescue and rubble-removing operations are nonetheless ongoing,” al-Hage stated.
Earlier on Monday, an Israeli raid on Saksakiyeh in Sidon District in southern Lebanon killed a minimum of seven individuals and injured seven extra, in line with the MoPH, which additionally reported {that a} whole of 54 individuals have been killed in Israeli assaults and 56 injured throughout the nation on Sunday.
So far, 3,243 individuals have now been killed in Israeli assaults on Lebanon and 14,134 injured since October 2023.
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford, reporting from the Lebanese capital Beirut, stated Syrian refugees and displaced individuals from different components of Lebanon had fled to Ain Yaaqoub, about 10km (6.2 miles) from the Syrian border.
“There are such a lot of Syrian refugees in that space who’ve been sheltering there for years,” Stratford stated.
“We additionally perceive it’s an space that’s sheltering Lebanese individuals who have been compelled to flee their houses from southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut and areas within the Bekaa Valley within the east of the nation amid Israel’s ongoing bombing marketing campaign,” he stated.
“What’s attention-grabbing is that this space shouldn’t be a Hezbollah stronghold and it’s the second consecutive day that we’ve got seen a strike in such an space,” he added.
Commenting on the Ain Yaaqoub assault, Israel’s army stated its forces focused a “army construction with a terrorist inside” and had taken measures to minimise civilian hurt, claiming that experiences of quite a few casualties have been exaggerated.
The Israeli army additionally reported on Monday that Hezbollah had fired about 165 rockets into the north of Israel.
In response to Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service, a complete of six individuals have been injured because of the assaults, together with a one-year-old baby, in northern Israel.
Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s main newspaper, reported on Monday that Israel and Lebanon had exchanged drafts of a proposed ceasefire via United States envoy Amos Hochstein, which signalled progress in efforts to succeed in an settlement.
A Hezbollah official additionally acknowledged that diplomatic efforts to succeed in a ceasefire had intensified, however stated neither the Lebanese group nor the federal government had obtained any new proposal.
“There’s a nice motion between Washington and Moscow and Tehran and a variety of capitals,” Mohammad Afif, the top of Hezbollah’s media workplace, stated in a televised information convention on Monday.
“I consider that we’re nonetheless within the part of testing the waters and presenting preliminary concepts and proactive discussions, however to date, there’s nothing precise but.”
