Israel strikes over 3,500 Lebanon targets in month with 1,000 militants dead: military

The Israeli military said Friday it had struck more than 3,500 targets across Lebanon in the month since fighting with the Hezbollah militant group began.Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on March 2 after Iran-backed Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel to avenge the US-Israeli attack that killed Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Israel has responded with massive strikes across Lebanon and a ground offensive.The Israeli military said on Friday it had killed about 1,000 militants in Lebanon over the past month, with strikes targeting what it described as “terrorist infrastructure, weapons storage facilities, launch positions, and command and control headquarters” belonging to Hezbollah.Lebanon’s health ministry said on Thursday that 1,345 people had been killed and 4,040 wounded since the start of the war, including 1,129 men, 91 women and 125 children.Tents of internally displaced people at a makeshift camp in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday. Over one million people have been displaced in the country in recent weeks. Photo: EPAThe ministry said the toll also included 53 healthcare workers.