People hold portraits of Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as they take part during an anti-US and Israeli demonstration after Friday prayer in Tehran on Friday. — AFP TEHRAN, Mar 06 (Agencies): The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon this week has risen to at least 123 people, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health says, as a new wave of strikes pounded the country and Hezbollah warned Israeli residents to evacuate towns within 5km (3 miles) of their northern border, in one of the fiercest fronts in the wider United States-Israel war on Iran.
"The toll from the Israeli aggression on Monday … increased to 123 martyrs and 683 wounded," a ministry statement said on Thursday.
Lebanese state media said early on Friday that Israel had launched air strikes on several towns in southern Lebanon.
"Enemy warplanes launched nighttime strikes on the towns of Srifa, Aita al-Shaab, Touline, as-Sawana and Majdal Selem," the official National News Agency (NNA) reported.
Another strike hit the eastern Lebanese town of Douris at dawn, the NNA said.
The Israeli army also reported a new attack on the suburb of Dahiyeh in Be biggest city Sidon. Lebanon's of Ministry of Health said five people were killed and seven injured in the Israeli attacks on Sidon. NNA also reported Israeli warplanes over the southern towns of Tyre and Bint Jbeil.
Meanwhile, Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency has reported that overnight attacks on Bahrain’s capital, Manama, targeted the Financial Harbour Towers commercial complex, the location of the Israeli embassy in the city.
The first week of the United States-Israel war on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on nations hosting US forces and assets has engulfed the region and beyond into a broader conflict.
The Reuters news agency reported Friday that an Iranian drone was intercepted and destroyed in the vicinity of the complex.
In a statement, the General Command of the Bahrain Defence Force said it had destroyed a total of 78 missiles and 143 drones targeting Bahraini territory in what it described as “treacherous” attacks by Iran.
UN demands swift probe into Israeli strikes on Lebanon
The United Nations on Friday demanded swift investigations into fatal Israeli strikes across Lebanon to decide if they followed international law.
"The devastating impact of this renewed conflict is already before our eyes, with civilians paying a painfully heavy price," UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva.
"We urge the parties to step back from the brink of a major escalation of this conflict in Lebanon."
Her comments came as fresh Israeli strikes battered Lebanon, where Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned "a humanitarian disaster is looming" due to mass displacement.
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Israel on Friday said it had started a "broad-scale" wave of attacks against infrastructure targets in Tehran, as Gulf cities came under renewed bombardment by Iran.
The seven-day war has now seen Iran target Israel, the Gulf states, Cyprus, Turkiye and Azerbaijan, and spread to the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka where a US submarine sank an Iranian naval ship.
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Around 50,000 Syrians living in Lebanon have fled back over the border into Syria in the past week, the United Nations' migration agency said Friday.
The war in the Middle East spread to Lebanon when Hezbollah launched a rocket attack at Israel early Monday, to "avenge" the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei in the US-Israeli attack on Tehran.
That prompted a swift retaliation from Israel, which has continued to bomb Lebanon since.
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