According to the health minister of the nation, Israeli airstrikes targeting mostly southern and eastern Lebanon have resulted in at least 274 deaths and at least 1,024 injuries, making this the worst day of fighting in Lebanon since the Israel-Hezbollah war of 2006.
According to Firass Abiad, Monday’s dead toll from the bombardments that struck houses, medical facilities, ambulances, and automobiles carrying people attempting to escape included 21 children, 39 women, and two medical personnel.
Tens of thousands of Lebanese fled the south, and the main highway out of the southern port city of Sidon was jammed with cars heading towards Beirut in the biggest exodus since the 2006 fighting.
The government ordered schools and universities to close across most of the country and began preparing shelters for people displaced from the south.
Some attacks hit residential areas of towns in the south and the Bekaa Valley in the east. One strike hit a wooded area as far away as Byblos in central Lebanon, more than 129km (80 miles) from the border and north of Beirut.
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Source: Aljazeera
