Despite international efforts to broker a ceasefire in Lebanon, Israel continues to escalate airstrikes across that nation. Today, one of those strikes hit the northern village of Almat, killing at least 23 people, seven of them identified as children by Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
Rescue workers are still in the area looking for more survivors, and the toll has not been finalized. At least six survivors were reported as wounded. Almat is in a region that is strongly majority Maronite Christian, but the village’s own population is majority Shi’ite Muslim.
Israel has yet to comment on the strike on the village, but security officials reported to the AFP that an unnamed Hezbollah member was visiting one of the attacked homes. He apparently died of his wounds, along with a lot of other people.
Locals, including a man whose home was destroyed today, said civilians displaced from the Baalbek Province had relocated to Almat. It isn’t clear where the displaced will go now, or where the dozens of residents who lost homes in today’s attack will relocate.
The Israeli attacks on Sunday have killed at least 38 people in Lebanon. In addition to the 23 killed in Almat, at least 12 were reported killed in the latest strikes on Baalbek. Thus far three were reported slain in smaller strikes elsewhere.
The death toll is soaring across Lebanon as the war picks up. On Saturday, the Lebanon Health Ministry reported 53 people killed and 99 wounded nationwide. A number of children were reported slain and wounded.
The peace president will shock a lot of voters next year.
Mr. "finish the job" Trump will not "shock" folks like me.
Ukraine and Russia? Mr. Putin may not trust him. It was Mr. Trump that withdrew the U.S. from two treaties that kept us (and the Russians) safe: Open Skies, INF.
He may not have Pompeo in his administration, but he will stock it with billionaires and neocons.
He owes Mrs. Adelson some credits too.
His grand idea to round up undocumented immigrants, use prison excess space to house them, separate their children from their parents (as he did during his previous time in the WH), then ship them out, including children who have known only this country.
So much to do, to wreck. Social Security underpins upended. All programs that promote the general welfare ( a term from what President Bush call a GD piece of paper, the one he swore to preserve and protect as a part time F-102 pilot protecting Texas and as POTUS).
"Shock"? I think not for many of us.
You are perhaps an astute observer of his past actions. But some here had a flicker of hope.
How much more rope will the world give Israel to hang itself?
There seems to be plenty of rope available, as per usual…
The "world" does not give a rat's *ss or something would have been done by now.
Blame Hez.
For over a year,Hez has fired missiles into Israel,terrorizing peaceful villages.Now these war criminals are being eliminated. Blam Hez for all the innoccent Lebanese killed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/where/syria/
”Let it be, let it be… Let it be, let it be! There will be an answer… Let it be…”
Israel fell in a similar trap in Lebanon as it did in Gaza. The Israelis are secretly looking for a way out. Again their objectives failed in Lebanon. They are losing men and equipment. The Arab collaborator regimes are backhandedly putting pressure on Israel because the continued carnage is liable to destabilize their own countries. The world is slowly losing patience and mobilizing against Israel politically, economically, civilly and academically.