BEIRUT — Lapan belas orang terbunuh, dan empat lagi cedera pada Isnin dalam serangan udara Israel yang menyasarkan sebuah apartmen kediaman di Aitou, sebuah kampung di pentadbiran Utara Lubnan, kata Palang Merah Lubnan dalam satu siaran di X.
Saluran TV Lubnan LBCI melaporkan bangunan yang disasarkan dalam serangan udara itu telah disewa oleh orang kehilangan tempat tinggal dari selatan Lubnan dan menempatkan lebih 20 penduduk di empat pangsapuri.
Imej yang dikongsi di media sosial menunjukkan kemusnahan meluas di halaman bangunan itu, bersama-sama dengan kereta yang remuk dan mayat mangsa.
Usaha bantuan dan penyingkiran serpihan masih dijalankan di tapak terbabit.
Menurut Agensi Berita Nasional Lubnan, ini adalah serangan udara pertama di kawasan itu sejak Oktober tahun lalu, apabila Hizbullah dan tentera Israel mula berbalas tembakan rentas sempadan Lubnan-Israel. Hizbullah menyatakan serangannya ke atas sasaran Israel bertujuan untuk menunjukkan sokongan kepada rakyat Palestin di Semenanjung Gaza.
Dalam peningkatan berbahaya dengan Hizbullah, Israel melancarkan serangan intensif ke atas Lubnan pada 23 September.
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18 killed, 4 injured in Israeli airstrike on residential building in N. Lebanon
BEIRUT — Eighteen people were killed, and four others wounded on Monday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential apartment in Aitou, a village in Lebanon’s North Governorate, the Lebanese Red Cross said in a post on X.
Lebanese TV channel LBCI reported that the building targeted in the airstrike was rented by displaced people from southern Lebanon and housed more than 20 residents across four apartments.
Images shared on social media showed extensive destruction in the building’s yard, along with wrecked cars and bodies of victims.
Relief and debris removal efforts are still underway at the site.
According to the Lebanese National News Agency, this was the first airstrike in the area since October of last year, when Hezbollah and the Israeli army began exchanging fire across the Lebanese-Israeli border. Hezbollah stated that its attacks on Israeli targets were intended to demonstrate support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
In a dangerous escalation with Hezbollah, Israel launched an intensive attack on Lebanon on Sept. 23.
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