Israel attacks Lebanon updates: 82 killed by Israel in Lebanon so far today

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• Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health says that 105 people have been killed and 359 wounded today as Israel continues to bomb Lebanon.
• Israel has attacked the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, targeting key infrastructure including the Ras Isa seaport and power stations.
• An Israeli air strike has hit an apartment building in the capital’s Kola district, the first strike outside of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
• A second French national has been killed in Lebanon, France’s Foreign Ministry has said.
• Fourteen medics have been killed over the days of Israeli strikes across Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry has said in a statement.
• Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that at least 28 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza Strip since dawn today.

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez says on X that his country condemns Israel’s “bombings of Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen, which encourage large-scale war in the Middle East”.

He also spoke out against US support for Israel.

“We reiterate that the only solution to the conflict is to recognize an independent Palestinian State with borders prior to 1967,” Rodriguez added.

Al Jazeera is reporting from outside Israel as it has been banned by the Israeli government.

Israeli troops are certainly amassing near the border. There have been several allocations of military equipment, vehicles and all other types of things you would need for a ground invasion.

The army says that nothing is off the table and that is certainly an option they’re going to pursue if and when the time is right.

The army chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, while speaking to troops just in the last week along the northern border, had told them that their boots will be in enemy territory. He also alluded to the fact that the Israeli Air Force continuously striking targets in southern Lebanon is going to assist the army going in on the ground to invade sovereign Lebanese territory.

The Israeli military, all Israeli officials alike, have said they want to destroy Hezbollah. They want to destroy all of its military capabilities, and if a ground invasion is the way to do that, they are certainly going to go that route.

As we just reported, Israel has hit the Lebanese capital outside of its southern suburbs for the first time since it began its extensive bombing campaign of Lebanon last Monday.

Social media video, verified by Al Jazeera, shows the aftermath of the strike on Kola, in southwestern Beirut.

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Saudi Arabia says it stands by the Lebanese people in light of current events, making its first comment since Israel’s killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.

In a statement, the Foreign Ministry emphasised that Lebanon’s sovereignty must be preserved.

Israel has attacked the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, targeting key infrastructure including the Ras Issa seaport and power stations.

Yemeni analyst and journalist Hussein Al-Bukhaiti says the Houthi rebels may expand their offensive to Israeli ports and offshore gas platforms, escalating their operations.

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The UN refugee agency says the situation for civilians affected by Israeli air strikes is “dire”.

“More than 70,000 people have fled the country so far,” it said in a post on X.

Earlier, we reported on comments from Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, saying there could be close to 1 million internally displaced people in Lebanon who have fled Israeli attacks.

Israeli forces have conducted a number of attacks on Kafr Tibnit, Deir al-Zahrani, and the region between Arabsalim and Haboush, Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting.

According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, Israeli attacks across Lebanon have killed at least 82 people today.

Israeli fighter jets launched strikes against “dozens” of Hezbollah targets across Lebanon, including one on a launcher responsible for attacks on the Eliezer Field area, the Israeli army has said.

“The [Israeli army] continues to attack with force, damage and degrade Hezbollah’s military capabilities and infrastructure in Lebanon,” the army said on X.

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 77 people today.

Earlier, we reported the killing of two people in an Israeli strike near the Municipal Park in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has shared video of its crews removing the bodies of the two people killed from the scene of the attack.

More than 28 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza today.

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Hezbollah was severely impacted even before the death of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli bombardment that destroyed a residential block and an underground bunker on Friday evening.

The group’s military leadership has been almost entirely eliminated, and it is facing one of the most intensive bombing campaigns in its history.

Watch Zeina Khodr’s report below: