A day after Israeli warplanes flattened their building, Lebanese residents helped rescuers scour the rubble for survivors, still reeling from the rare strike in the country’s far north.
The bombing killed at least eight people in Ain Yaacoub, one of the northernmost villages Israel has struck, far from Lebanon’s war-ravaged southern border.
“They hit a building where more than 30 people lived without any evacuation warning,” said Mustafa Hamza, who lives near the site of the strike. “It’s an indescribable massacre.”
After nearly a year of steady cross-border fire, Israel intensified its attacks on Hezbollah in September, mainly targeting the Iran-backed armed group in its strongholds of south Beirut and eastern and southern Lebanon.
Following Monday’s strike on Ain Yaacoub, residents joined rescuers, using bare hands to sift through dust and chunks of concrete, hoping to find…
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