The Lebanese Government suspends face-to-face classes in Beirut until the end of the year due to the Israeli attacks

MADRID 24 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Lebanese Minister of Education, Abbas Halabi, announced this Sunday the suspension, starting this coming Monday and until “the end of December”, of face-to-face classes in the capital, Beirut, due to the increase in Israeli bombings in the city.

All public and private centers in the capital will close their doors and students will have to take their classes electronically, as already happened in a previous suspension declared on November 17.

The measure affects public and private centers in the municipalities of Beirut, Chuf, North Metn and Baabda. “These measures aim to preserve the safety of students, educational staff and families, in the face of the current dangerous conditions,” according to the statement collected by the official Lebanese news agency NNA.

Israeli bombing has intensified especially in the center of the city, far from the areas it usually attacks, in the south of the capital, where according to the Israeli Army the headquarters of the Shiite Hezbollah militias are located.

One of these attacks, which occurred in the early hours of Saturday, left 29 dead and more than 60 injured by destroying not only the main target, a multi-story residential building, but also the surrounding areas.

Israel thus continues its major offensive against the Shiite militias in the country’s capital and in southern Lebanon while the Lebanese Government denounces indiscriminate attacks against the civilian population.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health, in this regard, now puts the death toll at 3,754 and 15,626 injured since the outbreak of the conflict between the Lebanese Hezbollah militias and Israeli forces a few hours after the beginning of the Gaza war, on March 7. October 2023.