The Israeli army announced that six of its soldiers were killed during fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.Israeli air strikes have targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs for the second consecutive day as Lebanese negotiators awaited a potential new ceasefire proposal from Washington.
Since Wednesday morning, Israeli air strikes levelled half a dozen buildings in Dahiyeh and killed at least eight people in Dawhit Aramoun, a village south of the capital.
Three women and three children were among those killed, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said.
Israel’s military escalated its attacks on Lebanon in September following nearly a year of trading cross-border fire with the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, which began firing rockets towards Israel in what it says was “solidarity” with Palestinians in Gaza.
Lebanon’s health ministry said since October 8, 3,365 people in Lebanon have been killed by Israeli attacks and 14,344 others wounded.
A mourner reacts during the funeral of her relative who was killed in Israeli strikes, amid the continuing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Joun village in the Chouf district, Lebanon [Aziz Taher/Reuters]
The Israeli military said its air force had destroyed nine Hezbollah weapons storage facilities and command centres in the Beirut area. It also said that Hezbollah had fired 40 projectiles into Israel.
Later, the army announced that six of its soldiers were killed during fighting in southern Lebanon. Since Israel launched its ground offensive in southern Lebanon, at least 47 Israeli troops have been killed.
Hezbollah said that it fired ballistic missil …
