The Israeli military said its aircraft had targeted “a weapons storage facility” and a Hezbollah “command centre”.
BEIRUT - Israel launched a wave of air strikes on Hezbollah bastions in Beirut and south Lebanon on Nov 16, a day after Lebanese government officials said they were studying a US truce proposal.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said “the enemy” carried out three air raids in the morning, later reporting another attack in the neighbourhood of Chiyah. Hezbollah claimed several rocket attacks on northern Israel, targeting military sites including a naval base in the Haifa area. The Gaza health ministry said at least 35 people were killed in the territory in the previous 24 hours, taking the overall death toll in more than 13 months of war to 43,799.
People “started searching for martyrs and survivors” with their bare hands, he said, with some “still under the rubble”.In a rare claim of responsibility for a strike on Syria, Israel said it targeted the Islamic Jihad group on Nov 14.
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