TEHRAN - The Lebanese Civil Defense announced on Friday that 14 bodies and 6 injured people have been recovered following Israeli airstrikes on several areas.

Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of successive airstrikes on southern Lebanon and the Beqa’a region.

The airstrikes targeted the city of Baalbek and many towns nearby. Israeli fighter jets attacked other towns west of the Beqaa in eastern Lebanon. 

Lebanon’s health minister says at least 25 people have been killed by Israeli strikes since the early hours of Friday.

One attack killed nine members of a family, including four children, and a pregnant woman in the town of Shebaa. 

According to Lebanon’s health ministry, around 700 people have now been killed in Israeli attacks since Monday.

Reports indicate that more than 35 paramedics were injured by an Israeli airstrike targeting the municipality of Burj el-Shemali. 

Since Monday, the Israeli army has been conducting a large-scale offensive on Lebanon, displacing tens of thousands of people. 

The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated the goal was to end the threat of Hezbollah and pave the way back for “70,000” displaced Israelis to their homes in the north. 

The Lebanese resistance movement has been trading fire with the Israeli military since October 8, 2023, in solidarity with the Gaza genocide. 

Since the wide-scale Israeli military operation began, Hezbollah has expanded its scope of fire. Ironically more Israelis have been displaced.

Hezbollah announced on Friday that it targeted Israeli cities, including Tiberias “twice” with a salvo of rockets, Kiryat Ata east of Haifa, and the settlement of Ilaniya in the Galilee with a salvo of “Fadi 1 rockets”.

These operations, according to the statements issued by Hezbollah, were “in support of the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, in support of its brave and honorable resistance, in defense of Lebanon and its people, and in response to the barbaric Israeli violations of towns, villages, and civilians.”

Israeli media reported “repeated sirens in the north, especially in Haifa, Acre, Tiberias, the Golan Heights, and the Jordan Valley,” adding that loud explosions were heard in Haifa, resulting in injuries among Israelis. Additionally, two rockets fell in the port of Haifa.

Hebrew media stated that the rocket launched from Lebanon toward Tiberias targeted a “water pumping station and landed a few dozen meters from it”.

Israeli media also cited the head of the local council in Acre, Amihai Ben Shlush, as saying, “The situation is very difficult, and the city is almost empty of residents.”

Ben Shlush added, “We don’t know where this situation is heading or how long the residents can tolerate this daily reality.”

Haifa’s Mayor, Yona Yahav, has been quoted as saying that “the streets are empty, and the economy has been damaged due to Hezbollah’s strikes.”

Over the past 24 hours, other Israeli cities have come under attack as well. 

The Ansarullah government in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, has claimed responsibility for a ballistic missile attack on Tel Aviv. 

The spokesperson of the Yemeni armed forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced the execution of two military operations early Friday. 

In the first operation, the “Yemeni armed forces targeted an Israeli military target in Tel Aviv with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile”. The second operation “struck a vital target in Ashkelon with a Yafa drone”.

Saree stated that the operations successfully achieved their objectives, underlining that they were carried out in solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian people and in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance under Ansarullah’s “fifth phase”.

He stressed that “the Yemeni armed forces will continue to conduct more military operations against the Israeli enemy in support of our brothers in Palestine and Lebanon.”

Sources said the Yemeni missiles traveled over 2,000 kilometers and reached their targets and that these operations will not cease but escalate. 

The Israeli occupation forces stated a ballistic missile launched from Yemen was intercepted over the skies of Tel Aviv in central Israel. The operations forced two million Israelis to flee to shelters, according to the Israeli army. 

Hebrew media reported more than 17 were injured in a stampede. 

Israeli media also reported that operations at Ben Gurion Airport ceased after rockets were launched toward “central Israel”. 

The United States has led calls for a 21-day ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel but has been accused of hypocrisy after providing Israel with $8.7bn in military assistance. 

The package was approved as the Israeli regime continues its deadly assaults on both Lebanon and Gaza. 

According to reports, the aid includes $3.5 billion for military purchases at a time when Israeli warplanes have devastated south and east Lebanon with airstrikes. 

Experts say Tel Aviv relies on U.S. munitions and financial support to continue its horrific bombing campaign across Gaza, which is approaching one year of indiscriminate bombardment and has killed about 42,000 people. 

The military assistance announcement came after a meeting at the Pentagon between U.S. acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Amanda Dory, and an Israeli delegation led by Eyal Zamir, the director general of Israel’s war ministry. 

In late June, Reuters reported that Israel’s staunchest ally, the U.S., had sent more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs, which have been condemned for use in urban warfare, since the start of the genocidal war in Gaza last October.

The news agency added that Washington had transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire precision-guided air-to-ground missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 air-dropped small-diameter bombs, and other munitions.

Over the past year, news outlets and social media sites have shown regular videos and images of Palestinian men, women, and children who have been killed by American-made munitions.