@guardian: At least 270 people have been killed and 1,000 injured in continuing Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, the country’s health ministry has said, making it the heaviest daily toll in the country in nearly a year of cross-border clashes and its single deadliest day of conflict since fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalated in October last year. Israel said it had hit 300 targets in one of its most intense bombing campaigns against Hezbollah since the start of the Gaza war. . Earlier in the day, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had warned Lebanese people living in or near buildings where it claimed Hezbollah was “hiding weapons” to evacuate. “The airstrikes aren’t stopping. People are scared,” Hassan Dabouk, the head of the Tyre Union of Municipalities, said. Tyre has hosted thousands of people displaced by airstrikes over the last year, and had largely been spared from the strikes until now. Thousands of people have already been displaced from their homes in southern Lebanon and northern Israel after months of fire exchanged between Israel and Hezbollah since the 7 October attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas last year. The conflict escalated last week when dozens were killed and thousands injured in Lebanon after their pagers and walkie-talkies were detonated, in an attack widely attributed to an Israeli attempt to target Hezbollah operatives. The escalating strikes and counterstrikes have raised fears of an all-out conflict. Follow the latest by heading to the link in bio.

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Monday 23 September 2024 15:58:08 GMT