Israeli attack on town in Lebanon’s far north kills 14 people: Mayor
Al Jazeera
Israeli missile destroys residential building in Ain Yaaqoub, where refugees and displaced people had fled for safety.
At least 14 people have been reported killed and 15 others injured following an Israeli air strike on the town of Ain Yaaqoub in the far north of Lebanon.
The Israeli missile that hit a building on Monday where 30 people were residing, including Syrian refugees, marked the northernmost point in Lebanon attacked so far by Israeli forces since fighting began in October 2023.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) initially said eight people were killed and 14 others were injured, which Ain Yaaqoub’s Mayor Majed Drbes later revised to 14 and 15, respectively.
“Displaced people lived in the two-storey house,” Rony al-Hage, a local official, told the AFP news agency.
“Rescue and rubble-removing operations are still ongoing,” al-Hage said.
