Smoke rises from the positioning of an Israeli airstrike that focused Lebanon’s japanese metropolis of Baalbek, within the Bekaa Valley, on October 30, 2024
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Israeli airstrikes pounded the japanese Lebanese metropolis of Baalbek on Wednesday (October 30, 2024), killing a minimum of 19 folks, in accordance with Lebanon’s Well being Ministry and state-run information company.

Hours earlier, the Israeli navy issued an evacuation warning for residents in the whole metropolis — together with its historical Roman temple complicated inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage web site. Israel stated it was focusing on websites linked to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Some 1.2 million folks have been displaced by the battle in Lebanon, in accordance with authorities estimates. Lebanon’s Well being Ministry stated greater than 2,800 folks have been killed and 12,900 wounded since October 8, 2023, when Hezbollah started firing rockets into Israel, drawing retaliation. Israeli floor forces invaded southern Lebanon at the start of October.

The dying toll from greater than a 12 months of the Israel-Hamas battle in Gaza has handed 43,000, Palestinian officers reported Monday (October 28, 2024), with out distinguishing between civilians and combatants. The Israel-Hamas battle started after Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 folks — principally civilians — and abducting 250 others.