By The New York Times (World News) | Created at 2024-09-24 21:45:09 | Updated at 2024-09-30 09:31:16
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Sept. 24, 2024, 5:35 p.m. ET
Nabatieh
Areas where fires have been detected since Monday morning.
Syria
Metula
Tyre
Qana
Lebanon
Lebanon
Israel
Israel
Nahariyya
Safed
Acre
Karmiel
5 miles
Tamra
Krayot
Haifa
Nabatieh
Areas where fires have been detected since Monday morning.
Metula
Tyre
Qana
Lebanon
Lebanon
Israel
Israel
Nahariyya
Safed
Acre
Karmiel
5 miles
Tamra
Krayot
Haifa
Areas where fires have been detected since Monday morning.
Nabatieh
Lebanon
Tyre
Qana
Israel
Lebanon
Israel
Nahariyya
Safed
Acre
Karmiel
Tamra
5 miles
Krayot
Haifa
Areas where fires have been detected since Monday morning.
Lebanon
Tyre
Qana
Israel
Lebanon
Israel
Nahariyya
Acre
Karmiel
Tamra
5 miles
Krayot
Haifa
After nearly a year of back-and-forth attacks between Israel and Hezbollah, the fighting along the border in the last two days has been remarkably one-sided.
Israel has waged one of the most intense air raids in modern warfare, leaving large parts of southern Lebanon in ruins and forcing tens of thousands of people to flee. Many videos circulating on social media and verified by The New York Times show multiple strikes in quick succession.
About 10 miles north of the border, this city was hit hard.
Video
Monday was the country’s deadliest day since its 15-year civil war, which ended in 1990. The number of people reported dead in Lebanon on Monday almost surpassed the number believed to have lost their lives there since the current conflict began in October.
558 people killed
in a single day
500 killed
400
300
Before Monday, Israeli strikes and shelling in Lebanon
had killed around 600 people since October.
200
100
Dec.
Feb.
March
April
May
June
July
558 people killed
in a single day
500 killed
400
300
Before Monday, Israeli strikes and
shelling in Lebanon had killed
around 600 people since October.
200
100
March
May
July
The figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, although Lebanon’s health minister, Firass Abiad, said on Tuesday that scores of women and children were among those killed.
Map showing the locations of Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Monday.
25 miles
Tripoli
Hermel
LEBANON
Beirut
Baalbek
Sidon
Damascus
Tyre
SYRIA
ISRAEL
25 miles
Tripoli
Hermel
LEBANON
Beirut
Baalbek
SYRIA
Sidon
Damascus
Tyre
ISRAEL
