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At least 492 people, including 35 children, have been killed and 1,645 wounded in Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Health Ministry says.
The death toll includes at least 56 women and two medics
Save the Children decries killing of children in Israeli attacks on Lebanon
“Today’s attack is the deadliest since last October,” Country Director of the NGO Jennifer Moorehead said in a statement. “We’re seeing strikes in dozens of towns, families desperately trying to flee with whatever they can carry, children crying, terrified by the sound of drones and fighter jets.”
Moorehead said that all schools in Lebanon will be closed from tomorrow, impacting around 1.5 million children.
The Lebanese Health Ministry reported recently that at least 24 children have been killed today in Israel’s air attacks on the country.
Turkey says Israel’s strikes could ‘drag entire region into chaos’
“Israel’s attacks on Lebanon mark a new phase in its efforts to drag the entire region into chaos,” the country’s Foreign Ministry says in a statement.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has called for an urgent meeting of Arab leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Iraq “calls on and works to convene an urgent meeting of the leaders of Arab delegations … to review the repercussions of the Zionist [Israeli] aggression on our peaceful people in Lebanon and to work jointly to stop its criminal behaviour”, al-Sudani said in a statement.
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