People inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh near the border with Israel on March 5, 2024. (Credit: Hassan Fneich/AFP)
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Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 151 of the Gaza war here.
An Israeli strike targeting a house in the southern Lebanese town of Hula killed a couple and their son. Hezbollah announced the death of the father as one of its own. The strike was one of many that targeted houses in the region. An overnight attack on a house in Bint Jbeil killed one person, the locality’s mayor told L’Orient Today. Hezbollah announced several strikes on Israeli military personnel and sites, claiming to have injured soldiers fire tank rounds across the border. In the evening, Israeli media reported that around 70 missiles had been launched towards the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel is “committed to the diplomatic process,” while warning that Hezbollah’s attacks were approaching a “critical point in the decision-making process regarding military action in Lebanon.”
Hundreds of contract professors at the Lebanese University protested outside the Ministry of Education to demand promotions to temporary full-time employment, citing the stark difference in salary a change in status would imply. The professors, with wages as low as $2 per hour — some of whom earned $100 for an entire year of employment and haven’t even received last year’s salaries —threatened to go on an open-ended strike if their demands were not met. Currently, 1,760 contract teachers employed by Lebanon’s only public university are eligible for the promotion, but the need to maintain religious balance is reportedly causing the hold-up in making the temporary jobs permanent.
At least 30,631 people have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to the latest figures from the enclave’s health ministry. Gaza cease-fire talks reached another impasse even after Hamas’ delegation extended its Cairo visit for another day of negotiations. The United Nations Palestine Refugee agency estimated that 17,000 children have been orphaned in Gaza since the war began, while 8,000 patients require evacuation from the enclave by the World Health Organization’s estimate and starvation is “almost inevitable” for the 2.2 million people in the strip, by the UN’s prognosis.
In case you missed it, here’s our must-read story from yesterday:“Is Hochstein cornering Hezbollah?”
Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz
