Lebanon’s health ministry said the strikes killed 492 people, including 35 children and 58 women, and wounded 1,645 people.

More than 1,600 other people were wounded as the country still reels from an attack on communication devices last week.

Israeli strikes on Monday killed 492 Lebanese, including more than 60 women and children, Lebanese authorities said, in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war as the Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of a widening air campaign against Hezbollah. Thousands of Lebanese…

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Lebanese population to evacuate and 'get out of harm's way'. The Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon on Monday killed 492 people, including women and children.

At least 356 people have been killed and more than 1,200 injured after Israel launched a series of deadly strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Israel launched hundreds of airstrikes in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, killing 492 people, including 35 children and 58 women, as the Israeli military called on residents to immediately evacuate places where it claimed the Hezbollah militant group stores weapons.Thousands of people fled southern Lebanon, jamming the main highway to Beirut in the biggest exodus since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. More than 1,645 people were wounded in the strikes, the Health Ministry said, a staggering one-day toll for the country. The Israeli military said it hit more than 1,600 targets Monday linked to Hezbollah weapons sites. It said it was expanding the operation to include areas of the Bekaa Valley, along Lebanon’s eastern border. Residents of different villages in southern Lebanon posted photos on social media that they said showed their towns that were being struck. The wave of airstrikes came after a day after Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets into northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa. Hezbollah’s…

Lebanese officials said the attacks from south of the border marked the country's deadliest day since the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war

Israeli strikes Monday on Lebanon killed more than 490 people, including more than 90 women and children, Lebanese authorities said, in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of its widening air campaign against Hezbollah.

Following a wave of pager explosions last Tuesday, the Israeli military said it struck 300 targets Monday in Lebanon in one of the most intense barrages of airstrikes in nearly a year.

It marks the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war and comes as Israel issued evacuation warnings to south and east Lebanon.

On Saturday into Sunday, Hezbollah launched more than 100 rockets across a wider and deeper area of northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa, as Israel launched hundreds of strikes on Lebanon. The sides appeared to be spiralling toward all-out war

Residents in those regions report hearing the booms from the rockets and interceptions.