he Israeli military carried out an airstrike on a mosque in the ongoing military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Allegedly, Israel is targeting civilian infrastructure. After hospitals, relief operations, this time in the Israeli operation, structures like mosques were also attacked.
Al Jazeera gave this news in a report on Saturday (October 5). The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) also confirmed this in a statement.
Israel’s statement said it attacked Hezbollah fighters inside a mosque in southern Lebanon. The attack was the first since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah began on October 7.
The statement added, ‘On the direction of IDF (Army) intelligence, the IAF (Air Force) hit Hezbollah terrorists. who were operating from a command center located inside a mosque adjacent to Salah Ghandour Hospital in southern Lebanon’.
“The command center was used by Hezbollah terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against the Israeli military and the State of Israel.”
Salah Ghandur Hospital, run by the Hezbollah-controlled Islamic Health Committee, said nine of its doctors and nursing staff were seriously injured in the attack.
The Israeli military targeted the mosque but could not provide any evidence that Hezbollah fighters were there.
Meanwhile, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said in a statement on Friday that at least 37 people were killed in Israeli attacks in the country in 24 hours. The number of injured is 151. With this, since September 17, the death toll in Israeli attacks across Lebanon has exceeded 2,000. Among them 261 women and 127 children
