EBN- Israel killed at least 558 people, including 50 children and 94 women, in air raids it conducted across Lebanon since September 23.
At least 1,835 Lebanese people were wounded in the attacks, the country’s Ministry of Public Health said.
Highways in southern Lebanon have been packed with people fleeing a barrage of Israeli attacks that have already killed hundreds.
The Israeli army has said in a statement it has used 2,000 munitions in approximately 1,500 attacks targeting “terrorist infrastructure targets in southern Lebanon and deep inside Lebanese territory”.
The military added it aimed to “remove threats to Israeli civilians and degrade Hezbollah’s terrorist infrastructure and capabilities”.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders that Lebanon was “at the brink” and warned against allowing the country to turn into “another Gaza,” a day after Israeli attacks killed more than 550 people there.
“Gaza is a nonstop nightmare that threatens to take the entire region with it. Look no further than Lebanon,” Guterres said at the opening of the UN’s annual gathering as hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group, threatened to plunge the region into all-out war.
“We should all be alarmed by the escalation. Lebanon is at the brink. The Lebanese people, the people of Israel, and the people of the world cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza.”
Israel, meanwhile, has continued its attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 12 Palestinians across the besieged territory over the last 24-hour reporting period.
