▲The Israeli bombings early yesterday targeted Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, in eastern Lebanon. Vestiges of an Ottoman temple, in the background of the image.Photo Afp
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La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 8, 2024, p. 19
Gaza Strip., The Israeli attacks in Gaza left at least 52 dead while in Lebanon 60 suspected Hezbollah militants were killed after a series of attacks by Tel Aviv in Baalbek and other areas north of the Litani River, the first army reported yesterday. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the press.
Israel destroyed an Ottoman building meters from the archaeological complex in Baalbek, declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization in 1984.
In the offensive against the Gaza Strip, many of the fatalities were concentrated in the north of the coastal enclave, especially in the town of Jabaliya, where at least five people died and several were injured in offensives near the Al Omari mosque. , while four others lost their lives in two homes. There were six more deaths in Abu Sharj, west of Jabaliya camp.
Eight Palestinians died in the city of Rafah and four more in the east of that town in the Al Yanina neighborhood. Three more died in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to medical sources in the enclave, and five in the Tabat Zare area. In addition, Israel announced the expansion of its ground offensive to the town of Beit Lahiya, the scene of dozens of bombings during October and so far in November, according to Israeli reports.
On the Lebanese front, some 60 agents of the Shiite organization Hezbollah were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in Baalbek, in northeastern Lebanon, and other areas north of the Litani River, the Israeli army spokesperson said yesterday.
Among the targets attacked were 20 terrorists in the Baalbek area and north of the Litani River, where 60 members of Hezbollah finally lost their lives.confirmed the Israeli military statement.
In one of the bombings, a building from the Ottoman era was destroyed, close to the temples of Baalbek, which were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984.
Piles of gray masonry and twisted metal lay yesterday next to a burned-out bus a few dozen meters from the heritage site of human civilization.
The Israeli army ordered residents throughout the city to leave Baalbek, in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, home to one of the largest and best-preserved Greco-Roman and Phoenician temple complexes in the Levant.
The area around the city has come under repeated attack by Israel, which claims leaders of Iran-backed Hezbollah are sheltering there.
Governor Bachir Khodr told Reuters that the destroyed building in the historic Manshiyeh neighborhood outside the ancient temple was valuable in itself, dating back to Ottoman times.
