Beirut / Anatolia

Since dawn on Saturday, Israeli warplanes have launched brutal and intense attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon, and Tire in the south, resulting in 7 deaths.

The official Lebanese News Agency reported that “Israeli warplanes had launched 12 attacks on the southern outskirts of Beirut.”

He said the raids targeted “the Al-Qaim Mosque area, the Burj Al-Barajneh area, near the Sayyid Al-Shuhada Center in Haret Hreik, and the areas of Al-Ruwais, Al-Abyad Neighborhood, and Al. – Shuweifat.”

Anadolu journalist said on Saturday afternoon that 4 Israeli missiles were aimed at Burj al-Barajneh – Ain al-Sikka in the southern suburb of Beirut, and the raid of Israeli violence continued on a residential street in the Burj area.

He pointed out that the Israeli attack targeted the Hreik-Al-Jamous neighborhood in the southern capital.

Members of the Civil Defense are also working to put out fires in several places near the outskirts due to several Israeli attacks, according to a statement by the General Directorate of Civil Defense of Lebanon on Facebook.

– 3 dead in the Bekaa

In the Bekaa region, the group said that a person was killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house in the plain of the village of Saad Nayel, in the eastern part of the country.

Israeli aircraft also attacked, at dawn on Saturday, the house of the director of Al-Abrar School in the town of Al-Rafid in the Rashaya Al-Wadi district, resulting in his death.

The group said that a female citizen died today from her wounds, after she was injured as a result of the attack on the town of Al-Ain in the north of Bekaa, on Friday.

She explained that the deceased “works within the team of the Lebanese Red Cross,” although no statement has been issued by the latter so far.

In Baalbek, in the east of the country, the group reported that Israeli aircraft targeted a house near the main road in the town of Al-Hafeer, west of the government, while there is no information No loss of life has come to light so far.

— 4 dead and one wounded in Tyre

To the south, in the town of Qana in the district of Tire, aircraft targeted a house without causing casualties, according to the group.

In the same area, the General Directorate of Civil Defense of Lebanon reported, in the same statement, that after an Israeli attack that targeted a house in the town of Joya, 4 dead bodies were found and one wounded person was rescued.

She explained that the agency’s special search and rescue teams carried out search and rescue operations and an extensive investigation at the site of the attack.

Since September 23 last year, Israel has launched the “most violent and extensive” attack on Lebanon since the start of the conflicts with Hezbollah about a year ago, resulting, at the end of Thursday, at 1,156 dead and 3,191 wounded, including a large number of women and children, and the displacement of more than one million and 200 thousand, according to Anatolia’s analysis of official Lebanese data.

While Israel in Lebanon killed 2,011 people and wounded another 9,535 since fighting with Lebanese and Palestinian groups, especially Hezbollah, began on October 8, 2023, according to the same study.

On the other hand, sirens continue to sound at an unprecedented level across Israel, following Hezbollah’s heavy fire of missiles, drones and artillery shells targeting military sites and settlements, amid a tight Israeli blackout on human casualties and materials, according to observers.

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