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Live updates: Israel attacks Lebanon, killing 182 people

A series of Israeli airstrikes hit the town of Habbouch in southern Lebanon on Monday. The Lebanese Health Ministry said at least 100 people were killed and more than 400 injured in the wave of attacks across the country. (AP video: Mohammad Zanaty)

More than 180 Lebanese were killed in the Israeli strikes on Monday. It was the most devastating attack since the war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. At the same time, the Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to leave their homes before the air offensive against Hezbollah escalates.

The Israeli military said it hit about 300 targets on Monday, including Hezbollah weapons depots. Some of the attacks hit residential areas in southern cities and the eastern Bekaa Valley. One attack hit a forest area in central Lebanon, more than 130 kilometers from the border north of Beirut.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah said in a statement that it had fired dozens of rockets at an Israeli military base in the Galilee and targeted the facilities of Haifa-based defense company Rafael for the second day in a row.

While Israel was carrying out the attacks, Israeli authorities reported a series of air raid sirens in northern Israel warning of rocket fire from Lebanon.

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