Islam Times – More than 1,000 people have been killed in intensified Israeli attacks across Lebanon this month, according to local authorities, as the United Nations and other rights groups say Israel’s bombardment of the country may amount to war crimes.The Lebanese Ministry of Health said on Thursday that Israeli attacks have killed 1,001 people in Lebanon since March 2, including 79 women, 118 children and 40 healthcare workers.
More than 2,584 people have been wounded, it added.
Israeli attacks on Lebanon intensified in early March after Lebanese armed group Hezbollah launched rockets into the occupied territories in response to the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in late February.
The Israeli bombardment has forced more than one million people out of their homes across the country’s South and several parts of the capital, Beirut.
Israel’s military has bombed residential buildings and other infrastructure, and launched a widening ground operation in Southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese group has responded by firing barrages of rockets into Northern part of the occupied territories and engaging Israeli soldiers on the ground in the South.
Earlier this week, a spokesperson for United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk stated that some of the Israeli attacks may amount to war crimes.
That message was echoed on Thursday by Amnesty International, which urged Israel to halt its attacks on Lebanese healthcare workers and facilities.