Baalbek in a sentence

Additionally, Hezbollah organized mourning ceremonies in Baalbek and the South of Lebanon.

An airstrike also hit a two-story building in the town of Yammouneh, northwest of Baalbek, reported the NNA, killing two people and injuring 12.

A woman collects belongings in an apartment amid destruction in a residential area where an Israeli airstrike killed 9 people the day before, according to Lebanese officials, on November 7, 2024 in Baalbek, Lebanon.

A woman walking through the rubble in Baalbek, Lebanon, following Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday.

Bachir Khodr, the governor of the Baalbek-Hermel governorate, reported on X that almost 40 Israeli attacks had killed 38 people and injured 54 others.

However, he warned of what he called “Israeli treachery” and said Lebanese authorities were “pleading… for international bodies to stand fast in defence of Baalbek’s Roman ruins”.

Israel's military said in a statement that its aircraft hit "Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites in the areas of Tyre and Baalbek.

Lebanese media reported that the Al-Qard Al-Hassan financial institutions were targeted in Hermel and Baalbek.

More than a month into the war, a handful of Baalbek's shops remain open, albeit for short periods of time.

Most of those waiting to enter Syria were from eastern Lebanon's city of Baalbek and surrounding areas, which have been hard hit by Israeli airstrikes in recent days.

Of the 60 killed, at least 16 deaths were recorded in Al-Alaq, west of Baalbek city, according to the health ministry.

The IDF said that it intercepted a Hezbollah drone on June 24. Israeli fighter jets then carried out airstrikes against “terrorist infrastructure used by Hezbollah’s Aerial Defense Array in the area of Baalbek in Lebanon,” according to the IDF.

The Israeli military says its air force struck targets of the militant Hezbollah group "deep inside Lebanon," where residents reported explosions near the northeastern city of Baalbek.

The strike on Baalbek, because of its location deep inside Lebanon, is the most significant one since the early January air strike on Beirut that killed top Hamas official Saleh Arouri.

In 2009, there were only a few exceptions (Baalbek and Hermel were merged into one electoral district, as were Miniyeh-Danniyeh, West Bekaa-Rashaya, and Marjayoun-Hasbaya).

All the same, Baalbek remained no destination for a traveller unaccompanied by an armed guard.

Baalbek was a major target, with more than 70 bombs dropped.

He was forced to relinquish it to Nur ad-Din in 1154sfn after Ayyub had successfully intrigued against Abaq from his estates near Baalbek.

On the evening of August 1,sfn hundreds of IDF soldiers raided Baalbek and the Dar al-Hikma citation.

The ruins at Baalbek were not directly hit but the effects of blasts during the conflict toppled a block of stones at the Roman ruins and existing cracks in the temples of Jupiter and Bacchus were feared to have widened.