At least 60 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, according to the Lebanese health ministry. The attacks, which targeted 12 locations in the Baalbek region, also claimed the lives of two children. Officials report that 58 people were injured, with rescue operations still ongoing in the valley, a known Hezbollah stronghold. The Israeli military has not commented on the strikes.

Over the past five weeks, Israel has conducted thousands of air raids across Lebanon, aiming at what it describes as Hezbollah operatives, infrastructure, and weapons. Baalbek governor Bachir Khodr called the recent attacks the “most violent” in the region since Israel intensified its operations against Hezbollah last month.

Unverified videos on social media show buildings in ruins and forested areas on fire, while rescuers search for survivors. Earlier on Monday, airstrikes on the coastal city of Tyre killed seven people and injured 17, the Lebanese health ministry reported. Israel had issued warnings for civilians to evacuate the city center before the strikes.

Hezbollah confirmed clashes with Israeli troops along the southern Lebanese border on Monday and claimed it fired rockets at an Israeli naval base near Haifa. Cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah erupted after the Lebanese group began launching rockets into northern Israel on October 8, 2023, in support of Palestinians following Hamas’s deadly attack on southern Israel a day earlier.

Since the start of the conflict, Lebanon’s health ministry estimates over 2,600 deaths and more than 12,400 injuries. The Israeli military escalated the conflict with an invasion of southern Lebanon on September 30, aimed at dismantling Hezbollah’s weapons and infrastructure in what it described as “limited, localized, targeted raids.”

Lebanese authorities report that the conflict has displaced as many as 1.3 million people within the country.