The strikes did not just hit one area. Air strikes targeted areas in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, Mount Lebanon, Sidon, and several villages in southern Lebanon. Even a funeral was not spared. An Israeli airstrike hit a cemetery in the Bekaa Valley village of Shmestar during a funeral, killing at least ten mourners and wounding four others.
The People Caught in the Middle
"This is a residential area. There is nothing military here," said Mohammed Balouza, a member of Beirut's municipal council, standing at the scene of a strike in the central Corniche al-Mazraa neighbourhood where an apartment building behind a popular shop had been hit.
Lebanese Civil Defence spokesperson Elie Khairallah told the Associated Press that rescue workers found a wounded woman alive overnight in the seaside neighbourhood of Ain Mreisseh, and a man was found alive in his collapsed apartment building in the southern suburbs.
Mohammad Chehab, a Syrian man, said six of his ten family members had been found dead in a destroyed building.
