More than 60,000 people have fled the Lebanese city of Baalbek due to Israeli attacks

MADRID 9 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Six out of ten residents (approximately 60,000 people) of the ancient city of Baalbek, in eastern Lebanon, have left the town since the beginning of the Israeli invasion of the country, according to local officials who have warned that the almost 40,000 Residents who have remained in the area have no way of accessing humanitarian aid.

“Here people have either gone abroad or to another quieter city,” explained neighborhood representative Jalil Taha to the Kurdish-Iraqi agency Rudaw. “But what has shocked us is that 38 percent of the population is still here, and no one is giving this 38 percent help of any kind,” he added.

At the end of October, Israel ordered the evacuation of the entire city, now the scene of intense bombings that accompany the entry of Israeli forces into the south of the country and whose objective is to destroy, according to the Israeli Army, Hezbollah positions in the town, known for its extraordinary Roman temples and its great mosque, built during the Umayyad Caliphate.

The neighborhood official estimates that the city has been bombed on at least 33 occasions and that the attacks have left fifty dead and 56 injured. At the national level, Israeli bombings against Hezbollah in the context of the outbreak of the Gaza war last October have already left more than 3,000 dead throughout Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.