2024 Beqaa Valley airstrikes | |
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Part of the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon | |
Location | Beqaa Valley, Lebanon |
Date | 28 October 2024–ongoing |
Attack type | Airstrikes |
Deaths | 79+ |
Injured | 58+ |
Perpetrator | Israel Defense Forces |
On 28 October 2024, the Israel Defense Forces conducted a series of airstrikes on roughly a dozen settlements in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon, killing at least 60 people and leaving at least 58 others injured. Follow-up airstrikes on two villages killed at least nineteen more on 30 October, with "dozens" more being killed on 2–3 November. The airstrikes were described by regional governor Bachie Khodr as the most intense in the area since the start of Israeli–Hezbollah escalations in September 2024.