The biggest attack on lebanon after the gaza-war, Israeli strikes kill 492 in heaviest

Beirut : At least 492 people have been killed and 1,645 injured, Lebanon’s health ministry has said, after a wave of Israeli airstrikes on alleged Hezbollah targets that left the country with its highest daily death toll since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. Tens of thousands of people fled from south Lebanese towns and villages along the main road towards the capital, Beirut, in Israel’s most intense barrage in nearly a year of cross-border clashes, as sirens were also heard in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The Lebanese health ministry said 35 children and 58 women were among those killed.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said the military was changing the “security balance” along its northern border. “I promised we would change the security balance, the balance of power in the north – and that is exactly what we are doing,” the Israeli prime minister told a security meeting on Monday.
The Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, said the Israeli military was preparing for the “next phases” in Lebanon, saying he would elaborate later. “Essentially, we are targeting combat infrastructure that Hezbollah has been building for the past 20 years. This is very significant,” he said.

इजराइल ने सोमवार, 23 सितंबर को लेबनान में 300 से ज्यादा मिसाइल दागीं। लेबनान के स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय ने कहा कि इस हमले में अब तक 492 लोगों की मौत हो गई। इसमें 58 महिलाएं और 35 बच्चे हैं। 1,645 लोग घायल हैं। अलजजीरा के मुताबिक, 2006 में इजराइल-लेबनान जंग के बाद लेबनान पर हुआ यह अब तक का सबसे बड़ा हमला है। लेबनान में बुधवार, 25 सितंबर तक के लिए स्कूल-कॉलेज बंद कर दिए गए हैं। लोग सुरक्षित जगहों पर जाते देखे गए। इस वजह से कई शहरों में ट्रैफिक जाम की स्थिति रही।