Death toll from Israeli onslaught on Lebanon reaches 2,350 since last year

BEIRUT

The death toll from Israel’s ongoing onslaught on Lebanon since last year has surged to 2,350, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

A ministry statement said that 41 people were killed in Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours and 124 others injured, taking the number of injuries to 10,906 since Oct. 8, 2023.

Israel has mounted a huge air campaign in Lebanon against what it claims are Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23, displacing more than 1.34 million people.

The aerial campaign is an escalation from a year of cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of its offensive on the Gaza Strip, in which Israel has killed nearly 42,400 people, most of them women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.

Despite international warnings that the Mideast was on the brink of a regional war amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, it expanded the conflict on Oct. 1 by launching an incursion into southern Lebanon.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala