Death toll from Israeli aggression on Lebanon Surges to 2,483

English , Middle East - مشرق وسطٰی , Snippets , / Monday, October 21st, 2024

Beirut, October 21 (QNA) – The death toll from the Israeli aggression on Lebanon since October 2023 has risen to 2,483 dead and 11,628 injured.
In a statement on Monday, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said that the casualty figure on Sunday, Oct. 20, reached 19 fatalities and 98 injured of whom 13 fatalities and 36 injured in southern Lebanon, 6 fatalities and 52 injured in Nabatieh, 9 wounded in Beqaa Governorate, and one injured in Mount Lebanon.
Since October 2023, Lebanon has been under attack, but in the recent days, Israel stepped up an unprecedented pace of airstrikes and artillery shelling to target Beirut, which resulted in killing and injuring thousands of Lebanese people, in addition to forcing over million to flee their homes.