(28 Sep 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 28 September 2024
1. Wide of Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad sitting at start of news briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Firas Abiad, Lebanese Health Minister:
“Regarding the martyrs and injured from yesterday, the health ministry has registered the falling of 11 martyrs and 108 injuries, those are the patients who came to hospitals where we were counting numbers from as well as emergency rooms. Regarding the total numbers, since October 8th 2023 till 15 September 2024, 610 martyrs have fallen, including 38 women and 17 children, as well as 2,056 injured. From 16 till 27 September 2024, 1,030 martyrs have fallen, including 156 women and 87 children, as well 6,352 injuries.”
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Firas Abiad, Lebanese Health Minister:
“Meaning that the total numbers, since the events started in October 2023, 1,640 martyrs have fallen, including 104 children and 194 women, and 8,408 injured, and we have to mention that there are still martyrs under rubble, missing people and dead bodies.”
++BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Firas Abiad, Lebanese Health Minister:
“Regarding the health sector, yesterday health facilities were targeted in Deir Seryan and Taybeh where 7 martyrs had fallen as well as 4 injured from the health sector and ambulances. This raises the toll of our martyrs in the health sector since the events started to 41 health and emergency workers (martyrs) and 111 injured”
++ENDS ON A SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
A total of 1,030 people – including 156 women and 87 children – have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon in less than two weeks, the country’s health minister said Saturday, a higher death toll than in the 11 months before that.
The number approaches the estimated death toll of the bruising monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.
From Oct. 8 – when Hezbollah began firing rockets over the border into Israel in support of its ally, Hamas – to September 15th, 610 people were killed, including 38 women and 17 children, Health Minister Firas Abiad told journalists.
That brings the total killed since Oct. 8 to 1,640, including 104 children and 194 women.
The health ministry counted 11 people killed and 108 wounded on Friday, but officials gave the caveat that the number included only those who reached hospitals, implying that others may be uncounted.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed on Saturday that its leader and one of its founders, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut the previous day.
Israel’s Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, said Saturday that the elimination of Nasrallah was “not the end of our toolbox,” indicating that more strikes were planned.
Israel has vowed to step up pressure on Hezbollah until it halts its attacks that have displaced tens of thousands of Israelis from communities near the Lebanese border.
The recent fighting has also displaced more than 200,000 Lebanese in the past week, according to the United Nations.
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