22 killed in Lebanon on Wednesday bringing death toll from Israeli strikes closer to 600The death toll across Lebanon from Israeli strikes on Wednesday has now reached 22, according to a Reuters tally of health ministry statements. Earlier this morning health minister Firass Abiad told Al Jazeera Mubasher TV that since Monday, the Israeli offensive had killed 569 people, including 50 children, and wounded 1,835 in Lebanon, suggesting a new total death toll of 591.
It announcement came as Israel unleashed more airstrikes on Lebanon and Hezbollah militants fired salvoes of rockets into Israel, including a longer-range projectile that set off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv and across central Israel. Israel said it intercepted the projectile, and there were no reports of casualties or damage from that incident, although two people were reported to have been moderately wounded when rockets struck a kibbutz in northern Israel.
Half a million people are estimated to have been displaced in Lebanon, foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib said.