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Dozens were killed and scores wounded in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon on Monday, officials said. The strikes followed Israel’s military warning to civilians to leave areas where the Iran-backed militant group operates.
Earlier strikes Monday appeared to be the widest in geographic range simultaneously conducted by Israel in Lebanon since the war in Gaza began, after the two sides exchanged their most intense fire of the conflict over the weekend.
As fears of a wider regional war grow, Hezbollah’s second-in-command said “a battle without limits” was underway and the group launched some of its deepest strikes inside Israel in decades.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering a plan to force all Palestinians out of northern Gaza to lay siege to Hamas and force the release of hostages.
Death toll from Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Monday rises to at least 100, health ministry says.
The death toll from Israeli strikes on Lebanon has risen to at least 100 people with more than 400 wounded, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said Monday.
Early on Monday, Israel carried out the most intensive air campaign against what it says are Hezbollah targets in Lebanon since the conflict in Gaza started in October.
It is unclear how many of the casualties are civilians or Hezbollah militants, but many of the Israeli strikes targeted residential areas where Hezbollah has a strong presence, and local media has reported women and children among the victims.
Classes suspended in several regions across Lebanon to protect students
From CNN’s Charbel Mallo
Lebanon’s government has ordered the suspension of classes in public and private schools in different parts of the country as fears mount of an escalating war with Israel.
The government order will keep schools closed for two days in the southern region of Lebanon and aims to protect students from the escalating dangers of the security situation, a statement by the Lebanese education ministry said.
The order took effect on Monday in the governorates of South Lebanon, Nabatieh, Bekaa, Baalbek-Hermel and the southern suburbs, the education ministry said.