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At least 24 people died and more than fifty were injured this Thursday in Lebanon in new bombings by Israel, which responded on a large scale to the recent attacks by the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah.
An Israeli attack on the town of Tamnin al Tahta, in Baalbek, resulted in a final toll of eight dead and 17 injured, according to the Emergency Health Operations Center of the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
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Also in Baalbek, a stronghold of Hezbollah, eight other people died and three were injured in Israeli bombings in the town of Shaath. In the south, in the Tyre area, two bodies were recovered from a four-story building that was the target of an airstrike, and search and rescue operations for the missing persons continue. Other bombings in southern areas resulted in four deaths and nine injuries in the town of Burg al Shomali, and two deaths and six injuries in Deir Antar. Regarding the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health reported that Israeli incursions caused 17 injuries. Israel is maintaining an intense bombing campaign against southern and eastern Lebanon, as well as the outskirts of the capital, which in the last ten days have caused 634 deaths, 1,586 injuries and more than 800,000 displaced. Hezbollah, for its part, has been perpetrating limited-impact attacks against northern Israel, with this Wednesday's being the most far-reaching to date. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced in a statement that it had launched a joint attack with Hezbollah against targets in Israel, the first coordinated offensive between the two after twelve days of conflict in the Middle East.
