Lebanon’s Health Ministry has confirmed at least 492 people have been killed and more than 1,645 wounded in a wave of Israeli bombings on Monday.

“The number of Israeli explosions in the Bekaa region and southern Lebanon today has risen to 492, and 1,645 were injured,” the ministry said in a statement. Of those, 35 were minors and 58 were women.

The Israeli military confirmed attacks on 1,300 “Hezbollah targets” in Lebanon in an operation that is still ongoing. The main target was weapons stored in homes.

The warehouses contained “cruise missiles with a range of hundreds of kilometers, heavy missiles with a warhead of a thousand kilograms of explosives, medium-range missiles up to 200 kilometers, short-range missiles and armed unmanned aerial vehicles,” Defense Department spokesman Daniel Hagari explained.

An Israeli spokesman assured that “many of the dead are terrorists we killed today who were close to weapons,” and said they would provide their own figures soon.

In response to these attacks, the militias Hezbollah fired at least 156 shells. against Israeli territory. Most of these rockets were fired at areas inside Israel, away from the border, such as the Haifa area, and there have been no reports of injuries so far.

In fact, at least ten of the projectiles fired were long-range and targeted Israeli settlements in the West Bank, more than 100 kilometers from the Lebanese border. Another 25 were dropped on the Golan Heights, part of Syria occupied by Israel. (Europe Press)