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Monday, October 21, 2024
Lebanon says 17 killed in Israeli airstrikes

A bust of the late Iranian General Qassem Soleimani stands in front of a destroyed branch of the Hezbollah-run Qard al-Hassan, which was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes on different parts of Lebanon have killed 17 people, including four first responders.
The ministry says six people, including a child, were killed in an airstrike on a house in the northeastern city of Baalbek. Four others were killed in the southern village of Kharaeb and four, including a paramedic, were killed in the nearby village of Babilyeh.
Three other paramedics were killed in separate airstrikes on the villages of Khirbet Selem, Bir el-Sanasel and Deir Zahrani, the ministry says.
It does not say how many of the dead were Hezbollah members.