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Israeli attack on Lebanon’s Almat

 kills 23, including seven children

The village is located in a mostly Christian region and is outside Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds in Lebanon.

10 Nov 2024

An Israeli air attack on the Lebanese village of Almat on Sunday has killed at least 23 people, including seven children, and wounded several others, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health.

The Shia Muslim majority village of Almat in the Jbeil district is about 30km (19 miles) north of the capital Beirut and is located in a mostly Christian area.

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The village is outside Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds of south Beirut and south and east Lebanon, which Israel has heavily bombed since late September in its war against the Iran-backed group.

“The Israeli enemy strike on Almat in the Jbeil district killed 23 people, including seven children, in an updated but not final toll,” the health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

It also said body parts had been recovered from the site and were being identified.

Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan noted that this is only the second time that the area has been attacked since Israel’s fighting with Hezbollah intensified.