Gaza live: Concerns about all-out regional war rise following Golan Heights deadly attack
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Quoting US officials, Axios says that the Joe Biden administration is “highly concerned” that the attack from Lebanon on the occupied Golan Height’s area of Majdal Shams, could lead to “an all out war” between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah.
“What happened today could be the trigger we have been worried about and tried to avoid for 10 months," a US official was quotes as telling Axios.
Officials said that “without a ceasefire in Gaza, a war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group is becoming more likely, which would exacerbate the regional crisis and draw the U.S. deeper into the conflict”.
Israel says the attack, which hit a football pitch in the city, killed at least 10, all of them are children, and injured at least 19 others.
It blames Hezbollah for the attack, but the Lebanese group denies any involvement with the incident.
Another Palestinian has died in a rare Israeli aerial strike on Balata refugee camp, located in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reports.
The Palestinian health ministry named him as 24-year-old Ali Hashash.
Earlier, the ministry had said that 17-year-old Louay Muhammad Misha has been killed in the strike, which also injured 28 people.
The Israeli army said that the raid comes as a response to an incident in which Palestinian gunmen opened fire at an Israeli military site and injured an Israeli soldier
The Lebanese government has condemned the attacks carried out in the occupied Golan Height’s town of Majdal Shams, calling to bring hostilities on all fronts to a halt.
“Targeting civilians is a flagrant violation of international law and goes against the principles of humanity,” said a statement issued by the Lebanese government.
It also called “for an immediate cessation of hostilities” after months of continuous cross-border exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel.
Meanwhile, Israel said the death toll of the attack on a football pitch in the town of Majdal Shams has reached 11, most of them are children.
The Israeli army says the rocket was launched from the Lebanese southern village of Shebaa.
Israel has blamed Hezbollah for carrying out the attack, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog said “the world cannot continue to sit in silence in the face of Nasrallah’s terror attacks”.
The Lebanese group has denied responsibility.
The European Union Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell has called for a ceasefire in Gaza.
His repeated call follows an Israeli attack on a field hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, which killed around 30 people.
“Yet another attack on a school used as a shelter for internal displaced people in Khan Younis,” he said on X.
“At the same time an already very fragile population is asked to relocate again and again, with no end in sight...Ceasefire has to happen now," he added.
At least 10 people have been killed, and more than a dozen wounded, in an attack from Lebanon on a football pitch in the town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights.
The Israeli media is reporting that the majority of casualties are children, accusing the Lebanese Hezbollah of bearing the responsibility behind the incident.
Hezbollah officials have told Reuters their group is not involved in the attack.
In a statement following Hezbollah’s denial of carrying out the attack on Majdal Shams, the Israeli army said that “the rocket fire at Majdal Shams was carried out by the Hezbollah terror group.”
Reuters has quoted Hezbollah officials denying responsibility for an attack on the town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli occupied Golan heights.
Israeli media has earlier reported that at least nine people have been killed in a missile attack from Lebanon on Majdal Shams.
It has accused Hezbollah of carrying out the attack.
The majority of the casualties are reported to be ageing from 10 to 20 years.
Earlier, the Israeli army claimed that a barrage of 30 rockets were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel earlier.
Released Israeli captive Liat Beinin Atzili said in a recent interview that her time in captivity in Gaza was marked by long conversations she had with the Hamas members holding her.
“I understood that what would help me survive was as much communication as possible with them,” she told Israeli newspaper Haaretz in an extensive interview published on Saturday.
“They wanted us to see them as people, and we wanted them to see us as people. So very quickly conversations started about family, about our lives, and it worked. I was totally dependent on those people. I wanted them to like me, I wanted them to get to know me, I wanted them to care about me. That's how you survive.”
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The Israeli news outlet Haaretz is reporting that nine have been killed in an attack that was carried out from Lebanon on the Israeli town of Majdal Shams.
The majority of the casualties are reported to be children and teenagers. This follows a fall of a missile in the Golan Heights city of Majdal Shams.
According to the Times of Israel, footage shows the moment a rocket struck a soccer field in the town of Majdal Shams. It is accusing Hezbollah to be responsible of this attack.
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has expressed his concerns about the safety of civilians in Deir al-Balah following the latest air strike on a girls’ school housing displaced Palestinians, which resulted in the killing of more than 30 people, including children.
“Such attacks also strain fragile health facilities and put them at risk of closure. We call for an immediate ceasefire and protection of civilians, health workers, and health facilities,” he posted on X.
Anti-government protests will take place tonight across several Israeli cities.
The demonstrations, which have been ongoing for months, are calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s removal from office, the return of the hostages, and new elections.
Families of the Israeli hostages are furious that their relatives have not returned home nearly two months before the first anniversary of the war on Gaza.
They are blaming Netanyahu for the failure to reach a deal with Hamas to return the hostages.
At least one person has been killed and 28 others injured during an Israeli army raid on the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the Red Crescent.
The health ministry in Gaza has named the man killed as Louay Muhammad Misha, stating he was 17 years old.
It added that nine of the injured are currently being treated at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus. Two are in a critical condition.
Earlier, the Israeli army said it had launched an attack on the camp and killed a man that the army said was wanted.
Also, an Israeli army spokesperson said that a Palestinian gunman opened fire on a military site near an entrance to Nablus, injuring an Israeli soldier.
According to the Israeli media outlet Haaretz, which quoted an unnamed security source, the attack came as a response to the shooting of the Israeli soldier.
An Israeli air strike on Khadija Girls' School in Deir al-Balah where displaced and injured Palestinians were sheltering killed 30 people, including children, and injured over a hundred.
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Israeli air strikes on a girls' school in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killed at least 30 people and wounded over 100 others on Saturday, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Khadija Girls' School was sheltering over 4,000 displaced Palestinians, according to civil defence officials in the enclave. A field hospital was also operating inside the school complex.
“I am so lucky to have survived,” Fadel Keshko, a 22-year-old man who was staying in the school with his sick grandmother and nephew, told Middle East Eye.
“The building I took shelter in was directly targeted. The distance between me and the rocket was just a metre away. I am horrified and terrified.”
Keshko and his relatives have since fled to Khan Younis, where the Israeli army is currently attacking areas previously designated as humanitarian zones.
Read more: 'Horrifying' Israeli strike on girls' school in Gaza kills at least 30
At least 39,258 Palestinians have been killed by Israel's war on Gaza since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday.
At least 90,589 others have been wounded in the enclave since the war began, the ministry added.
