5 days of bombing: 783 killed in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon

By Stephanie Rady

BEIRUT (AA) - A total of 783 people have been killed and approximately 2,312 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon since Sept. 23, bringing the death toll since the beginning of the confrontations between Israel and Hezbollah last October to 1,622, with 5,549 people injured, according to official Lebanese sources.

Between Monday and Tuesday, Israeli strikes killed 558 people and wounded 1,835 others.

On Wednesday, another 51 people were killed, and 223 injured. Thursday saw 92 deaths and 153 injuries.

Between Friday and Saturday morning, 82 people were killed and 101 injured in various Israeli strikes across Lebanon.

In total, 783 people, including women and children, have been killed in Lebanon since Monday, with an additional 2,312 wounded.

The Israeli bombardment has also displaced 98,800 people, according to the Lebanese government’s Disaster Risk Management Unit.

Since Monday, the Israeli army has launched its "most intense and wide-reaching" assault on Lebanon since its confrontations with Hezbollah began about a year ago.

In response, Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets at Israeli military sites, settlements, and even the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, with a strict blackout on Israeli casualties and damage, according to observers.

Earlier in a statement on Saturday, the Israeli army claimed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was “liquidated” during an operation targeting the central command of Hezbollah located beneath a residential building in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the start of Israel's onslaught on the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 41,600 victims, mostly women and children, following a cross-border attack by Hamas last Oct. 7.

The international community has warned against the strikes on Lebanon, as they raise the specter of turning the Gaza conflict into a regional war.

*Writing by Ikram Kouachi in Ankara