The latest violence comes as the Biden administration renews the diplomatic push, days before the US election, for temporary ceasefire deals.
Israel launched waves of deadly airstrikes across Lebanon’s north-east that killed at least 45 people on Friday, authorities said, and transformed once-bustling neighborhood blocks in Beirut’s southern suburbs into smoldering ruins.
Israel has broadened its strikes in Lebanon to bigger urban hubs, like Baalbek, in recent weeks after initially targeting smaller border villages in the south, where Hezbollah draws deep support. Iran-backed Hezbollah doubles as a major political party and provider of social services in Lebanon. Intensified Israeli airstrikes on and around the north-eastern city of Baalbek this week have prompted 60,000 people to flee their homes, emptying many small villages in the area, said Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region.
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