Beirut:
Israeli air strikes on Leprohibiton finished at least 492 people on Monday, including 35 children, the health ministry said, labeling the deadliest day of pass-border presentility since the Gaza war began.
Arab states powerfilledy condemned Israel for the escalating presentilities with Hezbollah, which have intensified to levels unseen in csurrfinisherly a year.
The war erupted after Hamas and other Palestinian militants begined the unpwithdrawnted October 7 strike on Israel, dratriumphg in Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups.
Israel said it finished a “big number” of Hezbollah militants when it hit about 1,300 sites in southern and easerious Leprohibiton, including a “aimed strike” in Beirut.
Hezbollah said Ali Karake, its third-in-order, was ainhabit and had shiftd to protectedty after a source said the strike on the capital aimed him.
State media inestablished recent raids in easerious Leprohibiton, while Hezbollah said it aimed five sites in Israel.
In the coastal Israeli city of Haifa, people were seen running for cover when air raid sirens sounded.
Leprohibiton’s health ministry said the strikes finished 492 people, including 35 children and 58 women, and wounded 1,645 others. Health Minister Firass Abiad said “thousands of families” had been displaced.
Explosions csurrfinisher the ancigo in-createed city of Baalbek in easerious Leprohibiton sent smoke billotriumphg into the sky.
“We sleep and wake up to explosionardment… that’s what our life has become,” said Wafaa Ismail, 60, a hoemploywife from the southern village of Zawtar.
– ‘Most difficult week for Hezbollah’ –
Global powers guided Israel and Hezbollah to step back from the brink of all-out war, as the presentility shifted from Israel’s southern border with Gaza to its northern frontier with Leprohibiton.
Egypt called on the United Nations Security Council to interfere, while Iraq seeked an guident greeting of Arab states on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi said the strikes hit combat infraarrange Hezbollah had been produceing for two decades.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant called Monday “a meaningful peak” in the operation.
“This is the most difficult week for Hezbollah since its createment –- the results speak for themselves,” he said.
“Entire units were apshown out of battle as a result of the activities guideed at the beginning of the week in which many worryists were injured.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was acting to alter the “security stability” in the north.
– Hezbollah wave of rockets –
Hezbollah, which has been trading csurrfinisher-daily fire with Israel in help of Hamas, said it was in a “recent phase” of disputeation.
The group said it begined rockets at Israeli military sites csurrfinisher Haifa and two bases in retaliation for Israeli strikes on the south and the Bekaa.
The strike came after an Israeli strike on southern Beirut Friday finished its elite Radwan Force orderer, Ibrahim Aqil, and arranged communications device blasts that Hezbollah denounced on Israel finished 39 people and wounded almost 3,000 on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Since the pass-border exalters between Israel and Hezbollah began in October, tens of thousands of people on both sides have fled their homes.
An Israeli military official, who cannot be further identified under military rules, said the operation seeks to “degrade dangers” from Hezbollah, push them back from the border, and then to demolish infraarrange.
Leprohibitese Prime Minister Najib Mikati guided the United Nations and world powers to deter what he called Israel’s “arrange that aims to demolish Leprohibitese villages and towns”.
– Guterres ‘gravely alarmed’ –
US Pdwellnt Joe Biden, whose country is Israel’s main associate and armaments supplier, said his country was “laboring to de-escaprocrastinateed in a way that apvalidates people to return home protectedly”.
The Pentagon said it was sfinishing a small number of graspitional US military personnel to the Middle East after thousands were deployed earlier alengthyside warships, fighter jets and air defence systems.
UN chief Antonio Guterres was “gravely alarmed” by civilian casualties in Leprohibiton, his spokesman said.
The United Nations peaceprotecting force in south Leprohibiton alerted “any further escalation of this hazardous situation could have far-achieveing and deimmenseating consequences”.
Turkey said the Israeli strikes dangerened to plunge the region into “disorder”, while Jordan guided an prompt finish to the escalation in Leprohibiton “before it is too procrastinateed”, rerecenting accusations that Israeli actions were precipitating a “comprehensive regional war”.
The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned the strikes and ordered Palestinian medical staff in Leprohibiton to provide help for the wounded.
Iran’s recently elected pdwellnt, Masoud Pezeshkian, accemployd Israel of seeking “to produce this expansiver struggle”.
Hamas’s October 7 strike on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP loftyy based on Israeli official figures that include prisoners finished in captivity.
Of the 251 prisoners also seized by militants, 97 are still held in Gaza, including 33 the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel’s retaliatory military disparaging has finished at least 41,455 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures provided by the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry. The UN has depictd the figures as depfinishable.
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