Lebanon reels from Israeli massacre in south
Israel bombed several villages indiscriminately on Wednesday following a large rocket attack on its military sites
At least eight were killed, and a minimum of seven were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh on the evening of 14 January, including a child who was pulled out from under the rubble alive.
“Shortly after midnight, the ambulance and relief teams were able to pull out the child Hussein Ali Amer from under the rubble alive, after more than 4 hours of searching for survivors,” Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported.
NNA reported that the strike targeted a residential building on Marjayoun Street in central Nabatiyeh with a guided missile. It caused “massive damage” and resulted in the killing of an entire family. The attack has been referred to as a massacre.
This brings the number of those killed by Israeli air strikes in south Lebanon on Wednesday up to eleven.
Israel carried out intensive bombing across several villages in south Lebanon during the afternoon following the large rocket attack on several Israeli military sites that morning.
One of the Israeli strikes on the town of Adchit caused “major destruction,” NNA said.
Several rockets and missiles were fired at a number of Israeli army sites on the morning of 14 January. One rocket landed inside Israel’s northern command headquarters in the occupied city of Safad.
At least one Israeli soldier was killed, and a minimum of seven others were wounded.
Several Israeli media outlets referred to the attack as “unprecedented” and the largest and most serious since fighting erupted on the Lebanese border in October.
Israeli news outlet Walla reported the defense establishment is facing harsh criticism across Israel for not intercepting the incoming fire.
“The war cabinet has caved to Hezbollah and lost the north,” Knesset member and former finance minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday.
The Lebanese resistance has yet to announce the attack. One day earlier, on 13 February, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed that operations against Israel would not stop until the war in Gaza is brought to an end.