The highways around Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut are heavily crowded today after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered major attacks against Beirut’s southern suburb, Dahiyeh.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz cited the continued Hezbollah resistance in southern Lebanon as the reason Beirut would be attacked, saying if there is no calm in northern Israel, there will be no calm in Beirut.
While much focus is being paid to the impending attacks on Beirut, Israel continues to pound southern Lebanon as well, having killed at least 12 people in strikes around the region so far on Monday, and wounded several others, including at least one paramedic.
Cars flood the streets of Dahiyeh as locals flee an imminent Israeli attack | Image from X
The paramedic was wounded during an attack against a vehicle on the road to Nabatieh, and there was no word of any medical workers being injured in an Israeli attack on the town of Toul, which killed a Syrian man who was near the town’s hospital.
The largest death toll was reported in Kfar Sir, where overnight strikes killed at least five people. Kfar Sir is in Nabatieh District, near the Litani River, and has been a target several times in recent weeks. Israel also claimed to have killed a Hezbollah missile commander in the Nabatieh area.
Hezbollah, for its part, launched a drone strike on an Israeli troop position in the town of Yohmor, killing one soldier and wounding three others overnight. One of the wounded soldiers was described as seriously wounded, while the other two lightly so.
