67 killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon
At least 67 people were killed overnight by Israeli strikes in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, the district governor said on October 29th according to the Arab News via Reuters.
Rescue workers were still pulling bodies from the rubble on the morning of the 29th. Lebanese officials say Israel’s strikes, which have raped up over the last month, are indiscriminate.
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None of the towns hit overnight received any evacuation orders. Bachir Khodor, district governor, said 120 had been also been wounded by the strikes and the death toll of 67 was expected to rise.
“That’s only the people who’ve been removed from under the rubble and we still don’t have the final toll. This is the most violent day for Baalbek in the last year,” Khodor told Reuters.
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Mayor of Ram Nazih Noun said nine of the victims were from there, including a woman and her four children. “It’s quiet now, but we don’t know how we can carry on with the funerals given the security situation,” Noun told Reuters.
More than 2,700 people have been killed by Israel in Lebanon since the war began just overall year ago, where it exchanged cross-border fire with Hezbollah. At least two-thirds were killed in the last five weeks, when Israel stepped up its campaign in the country. UN officials have warned of soaring hunger due to the Israeli onslaught, as reported by The Guardian.
Reuters, The Guardian
