While officials are saying they see “a shot” at an Israeli ceasefire in Lebanon, there is no sign of the airstrikes against Lebanese territory slowing down. Over 100 airstrikes have been reported against Lebanon in the past 24 hours.
The death toll, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry is at least 78 people were killed nationwide in the airstrikes, and 122 others were wounded. A substantial number of women and children were among the casualties.
The biggest single strike was against a refugee shelter in the village of Joun. Joun is south of Beirut and northwest of Sidon. With people displaced from both areas, there were a substantial number of refugees flocking to the village to escape Israeli attacks. The toll has been steadily rising, and locals are reporting at least 15 were killed and 12 wounded. The killed included eight women and four children.
Not far away, another airstrike in the mountainous Aley region killed at least eight other people, according to the Health Ministry. That attack too was reported to be on a house where displaced people had taken refuge.
Other strikes were reported further south, in Tefahta and Tyre, and more deadly strikes were reported in the eastern Bekaa Valley. Both of those areas are under daily attack with multiple strikes across the country.
Despite over a month of invasion, the Israel war on Hezbollah has not halted the rocket fire headed into Israeli territory. Today, a rocket reportedly scored a “direct hit” on a warehouse in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, killing two men. Nahariya is the northernmost coastal city in Israel, and only about 6 miles from the Lebanese border.
