Patrick Kingsley, Aaron Boxerman and Ronen Bergman
Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon killed hundreds of people and injured more than 1,000 others on Monday, Lebanon’s health ministry said, in the deadliest day of Israeli attacks there since at least 2006, when Israel last fought a war with the Iranian-backed militant group.
The Israeli military said in a statement after midnight, early on Tuesday, that its Air Force had struck about 1,600 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Monday and was continuing to attack.
The main roads to Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, were clogged with people on Monday fleeing to what they hoped would be the safety of the metropolis, witnesses said.
The pace and intensity of the airstrikes on Monday outstripped that of the devastating 2006 war, when more than 1,000 Lebanese were killed over an entire month. The health ministry, which compiles casualties reported by hospitals, said at least 492 people had been killed on Monday and about 1,640 were wounded. Officials did not indicate how many of the dead were Hezbollah fighters but said that dozens of women and children were among the casualties. The casualty numbers could not be independently confirmed.
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