Beirut, June 18 -- Nearly 4,000 people have been killed in Lebanon so far due to Israeli military operations against Hezbollah militants, according to numbers released by Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health today.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found itself entangled in a parallel war with the Iran-backed Islamist group on March 2, when Israel launched major retaliatory attacks in southern Lebanon in response to the militia's barrage of rocket and drone fire at Israel, following the outbreak of the joint US-Israel war against Iran on February 28.
Since hostilities erupted between the IDF and Hezbollah, at least 3,912 people have been killed and 11,873 others wounded, the ministry said, though its numbers did not differentiate between com...