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🇱🇧 Israel launches escalated airstrikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon

By Joan Westenberg in lebanon —

🇱🇧 Israel launches escalated airstrikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon, hitting over 1,300 targets and killing at least 492 people, with 1,640+ injured.

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Israel launches escalated airstrikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon, hitting over 1,300 targets and killing at least 492 people, with 1,640+ injured. It's the deadliest day of Israeli attacks since 2006, outpacing that month-long war in a single day. Hezbollah retaliates, firing 165 rockets into northern Israel. Israeli PM Netanyahu warns of "complicated days" ahead as the region fears escalation to full-scale war. Israel attempts to assassinate top Hezbollah leader Ali Karaki in Beirut. Northern Israel hunkers down, closing schools and restricting gatherings. Rambam hospital in Haifa moves operations underground. Saudi Arabia calls for restraint as international community urged to intervene.
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The Independent:

Israel-Lebanon latest: Israeli strikes on Hezbollah kill 492 as Beirut civilians urged to evacuate

The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon has risen to 492 people, including 35 children and 58 women, and wounded 1,645 people. Thousands of Lebanese fled the south, and the main highway out of the southern port city of Sidon was jammed with cars heading toward Beirut in the biggest exodus since 2006.

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Bluesky

excuse me, they're saying that MANY of the houses in southern Lebanon now hold full sized cruise missiles

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— Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer (@picardsteacup.bsky.social) September 24, 2024 at 7:34 AM

It's bad enough to tell residents of Gaza or the West Bank, who live under Israeli occupation, to evacuate—it's bad, it's unjust, it's a massive violation of human rights, but those territories are under Israeli, let's call it "governance." Lebanon OTOH is a sovereign country. gift link

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— Emily L. Hauser (@emilylhauser.bsky.social) September 24, 2024 at 3:34 AM

So this week reports broke that Netanyahu killed efforts to get hostages back, and Israel bombed Gaza and killed many more Palestinians, and they orchestrated the mass pager bombings in Lebanon, and now this:

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— John Wiswell (@wiswell.bsky.social) September 22, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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