Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill at least 52 after Hezbollah fire

Hezbollah fired two projectiles at an Israeli military base near Haifa. Israel answered with attacks in Beirut and across many villages in Lebanon. At least 52 people were killed and 149 more were injured. Lebanese prime minister Nawaf Salam then banned Hezbollah's military activities.

The report tied Hezbollah's fire to Israel's attacks against Iran and to Israel's occupation of parts of Lebanon. Two projectiles was the size of the salvo described. Haifa is the Israeli city near the base that was targeted. The Israeli response was not limited to a single border post. It included Beirut and many villages.

At least 52 dead leaves the toll as a minimum. One hundred forty-nine injured was the companion figure. The account did not say how many of the dead were in Beirut and how many were in villages. It also did not name the villages. The combined result of the Israeli attacks was the figure given.

Nawaf Salam is Lebanon's prime minister. His ban on Hezbollah's military activities followed an attack on Israel, as the report put it. A ban of that kind is a government order against the armed wing's operations, not a claim that the weapons had already disappeared. The report did not describe how the ban would be enforced.

Hezbollah is the Lebanese armed movement that fired the projectiles. Israel is the state that struck back in Lebanon. The day's sequence ran from those two projectiles to a wide set of Israeli attacks and then to Salam's prohibition. Casualty figures attached to the Israeli attacks, not to the initial projectiles.

At least 52 people were killed and 149 injured in Israel's strikes after Hezbollah's fire toward Haifa. The strikes hit Beirut and many villages. Salam banned Hezbollah's military activities. That toll and that ban were the reported outcomes.