Lebanon Fighting Enters Second Week as Hezbollah Reports Clash in East and UN Counts 700,000 Displaced
UNICEF says the escalation has driven nearly 700,000 people from their homes.
Overview
- Hezbollah says its fighters engaged Israeli troops during an overnight airborne incursion in eastern Lebanon, a claim the Israeli military says it does not recognize.
- Israel says a drone strike hit a Beirut hotel and killed five senior commanders from the IRGC Quds Force’s Lebanon Corps.
- Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports nearly 400 people killed by Israeli attacks since March 2, including at least 83 children and 42 women.
- The Israeli military confirms two soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon, marking the first Israeli fatalities in the current fighting.
- Lebanese security sources say Israeli strikes hit five branches of Hezbollah-run Al-Qard Al-Hassan in Beirut’s southern suburbs after evacuation warnings.