An Israeli raid killed at least 20 people targeting an apartment building south of Beirut, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
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“ Israeli enemy raid in Barja leaves 20 dead », indicated the ministry in an upwardly revised assessment, adding that clearance and rescue operations were still underway in this coastal locality located around twenty kilometers from the Lebanese capital.
This is the second Israeli strike on Tuesday against this region located outside the strongholds of Hezbollah pro-Iranian, against whom Israel entered the war on September 23.
Furthermore, Israeli strikes also affected areas in the south and east of the Lebanonaccording to the National Information Agency (ANI).
For its part, Hezbollah claimed to have launched drones, rockets and missiles against northern Israel. He also says he fired on Israeli soldiers in the border areas of southern Lebanon.
The Israeli army launched a ground offensive on September 30 in the border areas in southern Lebanon and fighting there pitted its troops against Hezbollah. More than a million people have been displaced by the war, according to the government.
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