105 killed in air strikes

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Lebanon claimed fresh Israeli strikes killed 105 people and injured 359 others after Israel said it had kept up its bombardment of Hezbollah targets.Lebanon’s health ministry said there had been deadly air raids near the main southern city of Sidon, while dozens more haddied in the east, in the south, and in and around Beirut.Four people were also killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut on Monday, the first attack on the city itself since the Iran-backed Hezbollah engaged in cross-border fire with Israel after Hamas attacked Israeli towns on October.

Triggering war in Gaza.France on Sunday said a second French national had been killed in Lebanon after a woman died following a south Lebanon blast on Monday.Lebanon has said more than 1,000 people have been killed and 6,000 injured since Israel increased the frequency of attacks against Hezbollah members two weeks ago.

The body of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been recovered from the site of an Israeli air attack on Beirut and is “intact”.His body had no “direct” wounds and it appeared the cause of death was “blunt trauma from the force of the blast”, Reuters reported.

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