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Casualties in Lebanon (April 8 Strikes)
Comparison of casualties reported by different agencies following the intense Israeli airstrikes.
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Hezbollah fires rockets at northern Israel, citing ceasefire ... - RAPPLER
Lebanon’s Hezbollah said early on Thursday, April 9, it fired rockets at northern Israel in its first attack against the country since the United States reached a two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran. Hezbollah said in a statement that its attack came in response to what it described as Israeli ceasefire violations, after Israel launched its biggest attack on Lebanon in this war on Wednesday, April 8. The Israel strikes killed more than 250 people. The strikes raised questions about regional truce efforts, with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian saying a ceasefire in Lebanon was an essential condition of his country’s agreement with the US. On Wednesday afternoon, at least five consecutive strikes rocked the capital Beirut, sending columns of smoke into the sky as Israel’s military said it had launched the largest coordinated strike of the war. More than 100 Hezbollah command centers and military sites were targeted in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon within ten minutes, it said. A total of 254 people were killed and more than 1,100 wounded across Lebanon, the country’s civil defense service said. The highest toll was in Beirut, where 91 people were killed. The health ministry reported 182 deaths across the country but said the figure was not final. Hezbollah said early on Thursday that it fired rockets at the small kibbutz of Manara, citing what it described as Israel’s ceasefire violations. “This response will continue until the Israeli-American aggression against our country and our people ceases,” the group said in a statement. It was the deadliest day of the war that erupted on March 2, when Hezbollah fired into Israel in support of Tehran after the US-Israeli attack on Iran two days earlier. Israel launched a full air and ground campaign in response. Reuters reporters saw civil defense workers guiding an older woman onto a crane to evacuate her from a building in western Beirut. Half of the building had been sheared off in an Israeli strike, leaving residents on upper floors trapped. Earlier, reporters saw people on motorcycles picking up the wounded and transporting them to hospitals because ambulances could not reach them in time. One of Beirut’s largest medical facilities said it needed donations of all blood types. “The scale of the killing and destruction in Lebanon today is nothing short of horrific,” said UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk. “Such carnage, within hours of agreeing to a ceasefire with Iran, defies belief...
Hezbollah says it fired rockets towards northern Israel in response to ...
2 hours ago ... A Hezbollah strike from Lebanon has killed one civilian in northern Israel, as tensions and cross-border attacks continue to escalate. Read more on our Website
Israel Escalates Attacks on Lebanon as Iran Cease-Fire Takes Effect
Israel launched on Wednesday what it said was the heaviest wave of bombardment in Lebanon yet in its monthlong war against Iran-backed Hezbollah as a U.S.-Israeli cease-fire with Iran took effect.
Israel launches sprawling attacks on Lebanon after Iran ceasefire was ...
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's military launched what it described as its most powerful attacks on Lebanon on Wednesday, killing hundreds of people and turning joy over the ceasefire in Iran into ...
