Paramedics with the Lebanese Red Cross transport a body unearthed from the rubble at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the northern Lebanese village of Aito on October 14, 2024. (Photo by Fathi Al-MasriI / AFP)
Beirut: The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on Lebanon since October 2023 has risen to 2,309 and 10,782 injured.
The ministry said in a statement that yesterday's Israeli raids on the country resulted in 3 deaths and 84 injuries.
This picture taken from Lebanon's southern city of Tyre shows a cloud of smoke erupting following an Israeli air strike on the village of Deir Qanoun on October 14, 2024. (Photo by Kawnat Haju / AFP)
Lebanon has been subjected to Israeli aggression since October 2023, but in recent days the Israeli entity has increased the pace of air and artillery bombardment in an unprecedented manner, and expanded the scope of its targeting to extend to the capital, Beirut, which led to the killing and wounding of thousands of Lebanese, in addition to forcing more than a million people to flee their homes.