A man walks past the rubble of a shop a day after an Israeli air strike targeted the marketplace of the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh on October 13, 2024. / Photo: AFP
The Lebanese health ministry said the attack wounded eight people. Israel's military has not commented. Since then, Israel's intense military offensive has killed more than 1,260 people in Lebanon, according to an AFP tally of official figures.Since last October, Israel has launched strikes on Nabatiyeh, but the damage was nothing compared with the destruction caused by the air strikes.
"Who will look after us? Lawmakers who can afford to travel and stay in hotels? Will any of them check on us?" he asked of a country reeling from five years of economic crisis widely blamed on a corrupt governing elite.He said he was in shock after this fixture in his life disappeared in the blink of an eye –– but he also insisted that the city would overcome the destruction.