MADRID 22 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health reported this Friday that at least 3,645 people have died and another 15,355 have been injured as victims of attacks carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) over the last year within the framework of its offensive against the Shiite militia party Hezbollah.
According to the Lebanese health authorities, in the last 24 hours alone, 62 deaths and more than 110 injuries have been reported. Most of the victims on the last day were in the Baalbek-Hermel governorate in the northeast of the country, where at least 49 people were killed and another 54 were injured.
After this region, the second most affected governorate is Nabatiye, located in the southeast and where eight people died and another 31 were injured; In the Southern governorate, five dead and 25 injured have been confirmed, while in the Mount Lebanon governorate, Israeli attacks have left another injured.
On the other hand, the Lebanese Ministry of Health has specified that of the total number of deaths, at least 2,530 are men, another nearly 700 are women and more than 230 are children. The high number of injuries is due to the coordinated explosion of communication devices linked to Hezbollah last September.
The resurgence in hostilities is part of the clashes that began more than a year ago, after Hezbollah attacked Israeli territory a day after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, which led Israel to unleash a bloody offensive against the Gaza Strip, where 44,000 people have already died.
The Israeli Army unleashed a new invasion of Lebanon on October 1 after several weeks of intense bombing and attacks against the country, including the aforementioned coordinated explosion of thousands of ‘pagers’ and ‘walkie-talkies’ linked to Hezbollah, after more than eleven months of fighting with Hezbollah in the border area.