Twelve Lebanese killed, 23 wounded in Israeli airstrikes on Aramoun, Saadiyat, Baalbek

Around twelve Lebanese citizens were killed and approximately 23 others wounded in Israeli airstrikes targeting Aramoun, Saadiyat, and Baalbek in Lebanon.

According to the Lebanese National News Agency, the Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health issued a statement on Wednesday announcing that “Israeli attacks on the Aramoun and Saadiyat areas resulted, in an initial count, in the deaths of six people and injuries to eight citizens.”

For his part, Baqer Abu Diya, Director of the Civil Defense Directorate in the Bekaa Valley, affiliated with the Islamic Health Authority, reported that the death toll from the airstrike that targeted a residential building in Baalbek had risen to six, with 15 wounded. Work is still underway to remove the rubble and search for two missing persons whose fate remains unknown.

In the same context, the Israeli enemy launched three airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut since the morning, the latest of which targeted the Jammous neighborhood.

An airstrike was also launched on Laylaki in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The agency reported that enemy warplanes flew at low altitude over Beirut and the surrounding southern suburbs.

The agency added that the enemy army, in a phone call, threatened to target the Civil Defense Center of the Islamic Health Authority in the town of Douris in the Baalbek Governorate of Lebanon.