Smoke billows from a site targeted by Israeli shelling in the southern Lebanese village of Zaita on September 23, 2024. The Israeli military on September 23 told people in Lebanon to move away from Hezbollah targets and vowed to carry out more “extensive and precise” strikes against the Iran-backed group. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
Kathmandu, Sept 24: At least 492 people have been killed in intense and wide-ranging Israeli air strikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, the country’s health ministry says, in the deadliest day of conflict there in almost 20 years, reports BBC.
Thousands of families have also fled their homes as the Israeli military said it hit 1,600 Hezbollah targets in an operation to destroy infrastructure that the armed group had built up since the 2006 war.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, launched more than 200 rockets into northern Israel, according to the military. Paramedics said two people were injured by shrapnel.
World powers have been urging restraint as both sides appear to be spiraling closer towards all-out war.
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People check destroyed buildings at the Jabalia refugee camp after an Israeli attack at the northern Gaza Strip, Sept. 22, 2024. The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 41,431, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Sunday. (Photo by Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua)This aerial picture shows the destroyed al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on September 17, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. Once the crown jewel of Gaza’s proud medical community, the Palestinian territory’s main Al-Shifa hospital has become a stark symbol of the utter devastation wrought by the Israel-Hamas war. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Marjayoun, near the Lebanon-Israel border, on September 23, 2024. The Israeli military on September 23 told people in Lebanon to move away from Hezbollah targets and vowed to carry out more “extensive and precise” strikes against the Iran-backed group. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)Smoke billows from a site targeted by Israeli shelling in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam in Marjeyoun on September 23, 2024. The Israeli military on September 23 told people in Lebanon to move away from Hezbollah targets and vowed to carry out more “extensive and precise” strikes against the Iran-backed group. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)An rocket from Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system is fired to intercept rockets fired from southern Lebanon near Haifa on September 23, 2024. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon warned on September 23 that further escalation on the Israel-Lebanon border risked having “devastating” regional consequences, as Israel said it hit Hezbollah targets and the group struck back. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)Palestinians search for survivors amids the rubble of a building, which collapsed after Israeli bombardment on a building adjacent to it, in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City on September 23, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the militant Hamas group. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
