UPDATE: Lebanon: at least 11 dead in Israeli strikes south of Beirut and in Baalbek
Sources confirm that the following story has emerged from the international scene.
Lebanon continues to be targeted by Israel. At least 11 people were killed on Wednesday March 4 in Israeli strikes south of Beirut and in Baalbek, the Ministry of Health and state media reported. On the fifth day of the war in the Middle East, Lebanon reports more than 50 dead and hundreds injured. Lebanon was drawn into the regional war on Monday after a first attack on Israel by the pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah, which claimed to want to “avenge” the death of Iranian guide Ali Khamenei in the American-Israeli operation against Iran. Read also Live: deadly strikes in Lebanon, Iran says it has “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz South of the Lebanese capital, “attacks by the Israeli enemy against the regions of Aramoun and Saadiyat” left six dead and eight injured “according to a preliminary assessment”, announced the Lebanese Ministry of Health in a press release. In AFP images taken in Aramoun, emergency vehicles are grouped together at night, while rescuers carry a stretcher. Rescue workers are seen at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in the town of Aramoun, south of Beirut, on March 4, 2026. © Fadel Itani, AFP In eastern Lebanon, in the predominantly Shiite town of Baalbek, five people were killed and 15 others injured on Wednesday in an Israeli strike on a four-story building, the National News Agency (Ani) reported. Operations are underway at the rubble to find three people still missing, this official news agency said. Furthermore, in Hazmieh, in the southeastern suburbs of Beirut, an Israeli airstrike targeted “a hotel” and ambulances were dispatched to the site, reported the National Information Agency (Ani) without reporting any casualties. 58,000 displaced in Lebanon The Israeli army called on Wednesday morning 13 towns and villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate “immediately” before strikes against Hezbollah, through its Arabic-speaking spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, on X. A similar announcement had been made earlier for 16 other southern localities. The pro-Iranian movement carried out a series of strikes against Israel on Tuesday, claiming to have targeted in particular the naval base of Haifa (north), in response to Israeli strikes against its stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Also readWar in the Middle East: after Israel’s response, the exodus of the Lebanese Since Monday, at least 50 people have been killed and 335 others injured in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, the Ministry of Health announced before the night’s strikes. Three rescuers were killed while providing assistance “to people injured in explosions in the district of Tire” (south), according to the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on X. “The warring parties must respect international humanitarian law and protect health professionals,” he recalled. According to Lebanese authorities, the war has already displaced more than 58,000 people in the country. The Israeli army has indicated that it will strike Hezbollah until it disarms. With AFP
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