Lebanon: Israeli Strikes Kill Hundreds as Hostilities Escalate

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Emergency workers use excavators to clear the rubble at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, September 23, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Hassan Ammar. (Beirut) – More than a thousand Israeli strikes across Lebanon that have killed hundreds of people and injured thousands since September 23, 2024, are placing civilians across the country at grave risk of harm, Human Rights Watch said today.The UN should urgently establish, and UN member countries should support, an international investigation into the recent hostilities in Lebanon…

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