Nearly 9,000 killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2023

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks have killed 8,920 people and injured 30,595 since October 2023, with thousands of casualties recorded during the latest escalation.

The ministry said 4,358 people had been killed and 12,359 injured since March 2. That date marked Israel’s latest intensification of its war on Lebanon, after an Israeli strike on Beirut killed 31 people following a Hezbollah rocket attack targeting northern Israel.

A separate ministry report recorded 179 Israeli attacks on ambulance crews since March 2, killing 135 healthcare workers. The article’s description gives the number of healthcare workers killed as 179, while the report cited in the text gives 135. Patients at Jabal Amel Hospital were also shown after an Israeli air strike on June 2 killed at least four people and injured 127.

UNHCR said 360,000 people remained displaced in August, including at least 22,000 living in collective shelters. The figures came as Israeli violence continued across southern Lebanon despite two US-brokered agreements signed in June. Israel has maintained a military occupation of southern Lebanon since March, saying it was establishing a “buffer” zone. The June 26 framework was contingent on Hezbollah disarming, but Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem called it “null and void” and demanded an end to the occupation. The agreement did not specifically require Israeli forces to withdraw.

An Israeli air strike on Kfar Reman on Friday killed three people and injured 23, according to the article. Israel’s military said it had cleared Hezbollah fighters from tunnels beneath the Ali al-Taher bridge. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported raids and artillery fire in seven towns in the Tyre and Nabatieh districts, without reported casualties. Israeli warplanes later bombed Zawtar al-Sharqiyah.

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