Lebanon's Health Ministry says 11 dead and 48 wounded in IDF shelling

At least 11 people were killed as a result of Israeli raids on the outskirts of the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon. This is stated in the summary of the Emergency Operations Center under the Ministry of Health of the Republic on Monday, November 18.

According to the statement published on the official page of the agency in Facebook (banned in Russia, belongs to Meta Corporation, which is recognized as extremist in Russia), at least 48 people were wounded of varying degrees of severity.

Earlier, on November 15, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported 59 dead as a result of the Israeli attack. In addition, 182 local residents were wounded.

Before that, on November 12, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said that there would be no ceasefire in Lebanon. According to him, the Israeli army will continue to strike the Shiite Hezbollah movement until the goals of the war are achieved.

On Nov. 10, Katz said Hezbollah has been defeated and called the elimination of movement leader Hassan Nasrallah an achievement. He said the only thing left for the state to do is to keep up pressure on the Shiite organization to reap the fruits of defeating it.

The escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah came after the events of September 17 and 18, when thousands of people, including employees of the movement, were injured when pagers and other communication devices exploded in Lebanon. The country blamed Tel Aviv for what happened. Since then, Israel has continued to eliminate the leadership of the Shiite movement and strike Lebanese territory.

The situation in the Middle East escalated on the morning of October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian radical movement Hamas subjected the territory of Israel to a massive rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. On the same day, Israel began retaliatory strikes.