At least 26 people, including four medics, died yesterday in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
At least 12 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a civil defense center in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, the governor of the province of the same name said. He added that rescue operations are currently underway.
Another eight people, including five women, were killed and 27 people were injured in another Israeli strike in the Lebanese city, the Ministry of Health announced today.
The ministry added that in another Israeli attack today - on the village of Arab Salim in the southern part of the country - six people, including four medics, died.
Meanwhile, the American ambassador to Lebanon, Lisa Johnson, presented today to the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabi Berri, a project for a truce to end the armed confrontation between the Shiite movement “Hezbollah” and Israel, senior Lebanese politicians told Reuters.
The head of the UN peacekeeping force in Jean-Pierre Lacroix has said that the redeployment of the Lebanese army in southern Lebanon is essential for any lasting solution to the ongoing conflict between the Israeli army and the group "Hezbollah", France reported. press, quoted by BTA.
"The redeployment of the Lebanese armed forces is absolutely central to any lasting solution," Lacroix said at the end of a three-day visit to Lebanon yesterday.
"We proceed from the principle (...) that the return to the implementation of the peace agreement (...) will be based on the implementation of UN Resolution 1701, which ended the previous war between Israel and "Hezbollah" in 2006", he added.
The resolution stipulates that only the Lebanese army and peacekeepers should be deployed on Lebanon's southern border, which borders northern Israel, to act as a buffer between the "Hezbollah" and the Israeli forces, AFP recalls.
The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) will be able to play a "significant" role only if all parties "fully comply with the implementation of the resolution", Lacroix said.
In mid-October, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said he was ready to increase the number of Lebanese troops in the south to control the border region in the event of a ceasefire with Israel.