Beirut, Lebanon (DT) – At least 43 people have been killed and dozens injured across Lebanon in a series of Israeli attacks in recent hours, including on two Civil Defense centers, authorities said on Friday.
The deadliest attack reported by the authorities took place on Thursday night in the province of Baalbek where at least 12 people were killed at a Civil Defense center, according to Governor Bachir Khodr on X.
The public health ministry confirmed the casualties and added that at least one person was injured.
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“The Ministry of Public Health reiterates its condemnation of this barbaric attack on a Lebanese state-run health center, noting that it is the second Israeli attack on a health emergency facility in less than two hours,” it wrote on X.
Also in Baalbek, according to the ministry, at least eight people, five of them women, were killed in an Israeli attack on Al Shaab neighborhood, injuring 29 others.
Israeli forces also killed six people, including four paramedics, when they attacked a post of the Islamic Health Organization and Civil Defense in the southern town of Arab Salim, according to the same source.
In addition to these three attacks, the ministry reported almost a dozen more in various parts of the country, raising the total number of fatalities to at least 43 in recent hours.
These attacks include one in the city of Shmustar, which killed two, while at least three people were killed and four wounded in Temnine Et Tahta. The ministry also recorded casualties in seven other towns: Saraaine El Tahta, Al Bazurba, Hanawiya, Aytat, Qana, Al Bayad and Shihin.
In more than a year of conflict, at least 3,386 people have been killed in Lebanon and another 14,417 have been injured, including 220 minors and 658 women, according to the latest update from the Lebanese government, prior to these latest attacks.
The vast majority of these deaths have occurred since the start of Israel’s massive bombing campaign just over a month ago, followed by a ground offensive, which in turn has displaced more than 1.2 million people, according to government figures.
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