Israeli Strikes in Lebanon’s Bekaa Kill 60 in Single Day

Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley killed at least 60 people and injured 58 others on Monday, according to Lebanese state media, as air raids intensified across the region.

The heaviest casualties were reported in Sahl Allak in Baalbek province, where 16 people lost their lives, the National News Agency (NNA) confirmed, noting fatalities across 12 different areas in the Bekaa Valley.

In Ramm, another town in Baalbek, nine people, including a mother and her four children, were killed, and one person was wounded, per NNA.

Baalbek’s Mayor Bachir Khodr called it “the most violent day in Baalbek since the start of the aggression,” in a post on X (formerly Twitter), noting that people remain trapped beneath the rubble.

Israel’s ongoing air campaign against Hezbollah has increasingly targeted the Bekaa Valley, southern Lebanon, and Beirut’s southern suburbs, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians alongside its stated goal of combating the Hezbollah militia.