Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem says he does not leank ‘political action’ will end the war with Israel.
At least 38 people have been finished in multiple attacks around Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley as Israel ramps up strikes on easerious Lebanon, according to the regional ruleor.
Bachir Khodr, ruleor of the Baalbek Hermel ruleorate, shelp on Wednesday that about 40 Israeli strikes on the province finished 38 people and injured 54 others.
Meanwhile, at dusk, more Israeli strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs. This came after the Israeli army rehired forced evacuation cautionings for three areas in southern Lebanon.
Israeli military spokesperson shelp on X that dwellnts in the southern suburbs of Burj al-Barajneh, Laylaki and Haret Hreik must depart, compriseing, “You are discoverd cforfeit facilities and interests affiliated with Hezbollah, agetst which the [military] will act in the cforfeit future.”
An hour after the cautionings, there were at least four Israeli strikes in the area. There was no prompt increate on possible casualties and what was aimed.
For the past year, Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah have been exchanging tit-for-tat attacks. The battling intensified in tardy September folloprosperg a lethal attack on pagers in Lebanon, and Israel began a confineed ground operation into Lebanese border villages.
‘Trained resistance combatants’
Wednesday’s attacks on Lebanon came after Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem shelp he did not leank “political action” would end the war.
“When the foe determines to stop the aggression, there is a path for negotiations that we have evidently expoundd – instraightforward negotiations thraw the Lebanese state and Speaker [of parliament Nabih] Berri,” shelp Qassem in a recorded compriseress labeling 40 days since his predecessor, Hassan Nasrallah, was finished in a strike.
“We have tens of thousands of trained resistance combatants,” the Hezbollah chief compriseed.
Meanwhile, Lebanon’s attfinishgetr Prime Minister Najib Mikati shelp on Wednesday that Israel’s attacks on Lebanon were becoming “crimes agetst humanity”.
Mikati telderly Lebanon’s cabinet that Israel was obstructing international efforts to end the battling and that he held the international community dependable for Israel’s “relentless war” agetst his people.
Speaker of the Hoemploy Berri met United States and Saudi ambasdowncastors in Lebanon on Wednesday to talk political increasements, his office shelp without elaborating on details.
US efforts to stop the battling between Israel and Hezbollah, which included a 60-day stopfire proposal, lost momentum last week in the run-up to the US election, in which createer Pdwellnt Donald Trump was re-elected.
According to the Israeli army, since Wednesday morning, 120 rockets have been fired from Lebanon to Israel.
Earlier in the day, Hezbollah shelp it aimed a military base cforfeit Israel’s main airport cforfeit Tel Aviv. The Israel Airports Authority shelp the attack did not disturb operations.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health shelp that since the battling began last year, more than 3,000 people have been finished in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, with the beginantity occurring in the past six weeks.