Israel launches new Lebanon attacks despite growing calls for ceasefire

Israeli air raids in Beirut suburbs kill senior Hezbollah commanders amid spiraling violence and regional instability.

Dozens of people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Lebanon, health authorities said, as Israeli air forces expanded their bombardment of the country for a fourth consecutive day despite growing international calls for a ceasefire.

According to an Al Jazeera tally, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health reported on Thursday that at least 29 people were killed in Israeli attacks – the majority of whom were Syrians in the town of Younine in the Bekaa valley, along the country’s eastern border with Syria.

Other attacks hit villages and towns in the country’s south, including Tyre, and at least two people were killed and 15 others were wounded in an attack in the suburbs of the capital Beirut, the ministry said.

The Israeli military said it killed Muhammad Hossein Sarur, whom it said was the head of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah’s aerial unit, in the Beirut attack.

There was no immediate comment on the Israeli claim from Hezbollah.