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The Israeli military reportedly attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon with hundreds of airstrikes on Monday, killing nearly 500 people.
The Israeli military said in a statement that in the past 24 hours, about 650 Israeli airstrikes hit more than eleven-hundred Hezbollah facilities in southern and eastern Lebanon.
Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday that the Israel Defense Forces has destroyed tens of thousands of Hezbollah rockets.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said that the Israeli strikes killed 492 people, including 35 children, and wounded about 16-hundred people in southern Lebanon and in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.
Lebanese health minister Firass Abiad said that thousands of people fled in the attacked areas.
The Associated Press said that Monday was the deadliest day of conflict since the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.