Lebanon death toll from Israeli attacks rises to 1,142

Middle Eastern outlets focus on the heavy civilian toll in Lebanon, blaming Israeli attacks for killing more than 1,100 people and wrecking health services. They stress that paramedics, rescuers, and journalists have been targeted or killed, portraying this as part of a wider pattern of disregard for civilian life. Many warn that Israel’s effort to carve out a larger buffer zone amounts to a creeping occupation that could destabilize Lebanon further.

• •Regional media report that Israeli strikes have killed at least 1,142 people in Lebanon, most of them civilians.
• •Middle Eastern coverage cites WHO figures that nine paramedics and other medical workers were killed in attacks in southern Lebanon.
• •Reports say Israeli attacks have crippled hospitals and ambulance services in the south, leaving wounded people without timely care.
• •Funeral coverage near Beirut describes journalists killed in an Israeli strike as victims of deliberate or reckless targeting of the press.
• •Commentators in the region argue that Israel’s expanding buffer zone inside Lebanon is a step toward renewed occupation of southern areas.