Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
At least 30 people were killed on October 31 when a series of violent Israeli strikes targeted the Lebanese region of Baalbek.
Baalbek is located in the Bekaa Valley, close to the border with Syria. The heavily populated region is known to be a stronghold of Hezbollah.
Prior to the strikes, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) issued evacuation orders for the whole of Baalbek city and the neighboring towns of Ain Bourday and Douris, warning that it would “act forcefully against Hezbollah interests”. Tens of thousands of people fled from the region within a few hours.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported that the Ras al-Ain Hills, Amshki, al-Asira, al-Kayyal Road areas were hit, and the northern and southern entrances to Baalbek. The strikes also targeted Ain Bourday and Douris, including fuel tanks in its vicinity, it said.
Later, the Lebanese health ministry said that 11 people, including three women, were killed in a strike on Salibi Farm in Baalbek. Eight others, including five women, were killed in another strike in Bednayel, it added.
The ministry separately said that an additional 11 people were killed in Israeli strikes in the town of Sohmor, in the southern Bekaa Valley.
Following the strikes, the IDF said in a statement that it had conducted “intelligence-based strikes on fuel depots located inside military compounds belonging to Hezbollah’s Logistical Reinforcement Unit 4400 in the Bekaa Valley”. The unit was responsible for transferring weapons from Iran, it added.
A later statement by the IDF said that Israeli warplanes had “struck command-and-control centers and terrorist infrastructure” in Baalbek.
The clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, with Hezbollah launching attacks in support of the Palestinian enclave. Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanon starting from September 17 and on September 27 it assassinated the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nassrallah.
The IDF officially announced the launch of a limited ground operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on September 30.
The deadly strikes on Baalbek show how the IDF is working to further expand its operations in Lebanon. So far, Israeli strikes on the country have claimed the lives of more than 2,800 people and left more than 12,000 others wounded. Many of the victims were women and children.
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zionist cowards are liars and only good at killing women and children. in over a years holocaust of palestine and now lebanon, the zionist psychopaths have only managed to kill unarmed starving palestinian women and children by dropping us made bombs from us made aircraft. these zionist subhumans are pathetic wretches.
i need my messiah hitler coming back from the death armed with gazprom gas.
and of course the russian federation will continue to turn a blind eye to all of it since october 7, and the devastation of aleppo that spilled russian blood 8 years ago -supporting i$rael’s “right to exist”?!!!… question for “pootie -poot”… when do the disgruntled russian j**$ leave haifa and tel aviv for their new homes in ukraine that you promised them?!!!
israel strikes seem always alleged, what, are they guessing targets?
contrary to zionist claims that they targeted hezbollah weapons depots, the casualty reports sound like, as usual, they are bombing civilians.
do israeli pilots do selfies in women’s lingerie like their commando counterparts? i guess it wouldn’t be quite the same since it wouldn’t belong to their victims. what a bunch of sickos.