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Israeli strike on a residential building in northern Lebanon kills 21

The Lebanese health ministry says the number of people killed in a presumed Israeli airstrike in northern Lebanon has risen to twenty-one.

Lebanon says the number of people killed in a presumed Israeli airstrike in northern Lebanon has risen to twenty-one. The strike hit Aitou, a Christian-majority village in the mountains near Tripoli. We hear from the Lebanese Red Cross.

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(Picture: Lebanese army soldier stands near destroyed vehicles at a site damaged by an Israeli air strike in the Christian-majority region of Aitou in north Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry said, October 14, 2024. Credit: Reuters)

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