Overview
- Lebanon’s state news agency reported an Israeli strike on a residential building in Baalbek that killed at least four people and wounded six, with rescue teams searching the rubble.
- State media also said a hotel in Hazmieh near Beirut was hit as strikes spread beyond Hezbollah strongholds, and the health ministry reported a preliminary six dead and eight wounded in Aramoun and Saadiyat.
- Lebanon’s health ministry put the overall toll since the escalation at least at 50 dead and 335 wounded, and the WHO chief said three paramedics were killed and six wounded while responding to blasts.
- The Israeli military announced broad-scale strikes and warned residents of 16 southern Lebanese villages to evacuate, while intercepting projectiles launched from Lebanon.
- Hezbollah said it carried out multiple attacks on Israeli targets, including a claimed strike on the Haifa naval base and rocket salvos near Metula, as UNHCR counted over 30,000 people in shelters, WFP delivered meals and prepared cash aid for up to 100,000, and UNICEF reported child casualties.