Live: Five Palestinian journalists killed, Gaza media office says

Iran reserves the right to respond to Israel's "criminal aggression", Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a letter calling for an urgent Security Council meeting, Iran's foreign ministry said on Sunday. 

Reporting by Reuters

The death toll from an Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese city of Sidon has risen from two to five, according to Lebanon's health ministry.

The ministry added that 13 others had been wounded in the strike. 

The Israeli army claimed its soldiers thwarted a "terrorist attack" when they shot dead a Palestinian who allegedly attempted to attack them near the occupied West Bank town of Hizma.

Wafa news agency reported that a young man was injured when Israeli forces opened fire on his vehicle between the towns of Hizma and Anata.

Two Palestinians were killed and four others injured when an Israeli drone fired on a group of civilians in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, Wafa news agency reported, citing local sources.

The agency further reported, citing medical sources, that 27 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn today, with 25 of those deaths occurring in the northern part of the strip.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant briefed his US counterpart, Lloyd Austin, on the "success" of Israel's strikes on Iran and discussed "strategic opportunities" arising from the operation, Gallant's office said on Sunday.

"Gallant discussed initial assessments regarding the success of the strikes against missile manufacturing facilities, surface-to-air missile arrays and Iranian aerial capabilities," the statement read.

"Minister Gallant also discussed the strategic opportunities that have risen as a result of operational achievements in both the northern and southern arenas," it added, referring to fighting in Lebanon and Gaza.

Reporting by Reuters

Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Israeli military targets, including a drone attack on a military site near the northeastern Israeli settlement of Manara, which it said "killed and injured" Israeli soldiers.

The Lebanese group also said its fighters launched a "military salvo" at Israeli forces at the Fatima Gate, a former border crossing between Lebanon and Israel.

In its latest statement, Hezbollah said it had fired a "large military salvo" towards the Zevulun military-industrial base, located north of Haifa.

The Israeli military said in a statement that 75 rockets had been launched towards northern Israel, with some intercepted. Others struck the region, including one that struck the northern town of Tamra, injuring three people, according to Israeli media.

Eight Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli air strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City's al-Shati refugee camp, Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources.

This is the second time Asma school has been targeted, with a previous strike on 19 October causing multiple casualties.

Thirty-three people have been wounded, including six in serious condition and seven in moderate condition, following a truck ramming attack on Sunday at a bus stop near a military base in central Israel, emergency services reported.

Al Jazeera noted that the Glilot military base in Ramat Hasharon also houses the Mossad headquarters.

Israeli media identified the suspected perpetrator as Rami Nasrallah Natour, an Israeli citizen from the Arab city of Kalansua in central Israel. He was shot dead by security forces at the scene.

Israeli air strikes have raided Deir Ames, a town in Lebanon, with heavy artillery shelling targeting the villages of Zibqin, Yater, Tayr Harfa, al-Jebbayn and Yarin, according to Lebanon's National News Agency. 

It is currently unclear whether there were casualties resulting from the attacks.

Israeli forces have detained at least 12 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank over the past 24 hours, according to prisoner advocacy groups.

In a joint statement, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that the arrests took place during widespread raids across Hebron, Ramallah and Jenin.

The statement added that detainees were severely beaten and threats were made against their families.

Video footage shows Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visiting the site of a ramming attack in central Israel, where he pledged to "expel" the families of the suspected attackers.

In the clip, an Israeli citizen asks Ben Gvir if the families will be expelled. He responds: “By God’s will, we will expel them. I just hope that Likud and Bibi [Benjamin Netanyahu] are with us.”

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Hamas and Hezbollah are not functioning effectively as military groups, adding that they are "no longer an effective tool" to be used by Iran.

"Over the past year, the security establishment led by the Israel Defense Forces turned the tide of the war and had unprecedented achievements in all arenas of fighting," he said during a memorial ceremony in Jerusalem.

Reporting by Reuters

At least 20 people, including women and children, have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp this morning, Wafa news agency reported, citing local and medical sources.

The attack targeted a residential complex near the camp's al-Fakhoora school, according to eyewitnesses and medical sources.

At least three people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on Zawtar al-Sharqiya in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry reported.

The ministry added that a strike on Marjayoun the previous day had killed five people.

Earlier this morning, the National News Agency said two houses were destroyed in an Israeli air strike on the town of Yahmar al-Shaqif. No casualties have been reported.

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates:

• At least 50 people were injured when a truck or bus rammed into a bus stop in Ramat Hasharon, central Israel, in a suspected 'terrorist attack'. A drone attack in Karmiel in the north is also reported to have wounded two people.

• An Israeli air strike on Beit Lahia in Gaza’s besieged north killed at least 45 people on Saturday, including several entire families. Emergency crews and hospitals in the area are almost entirely non-functional.

• The son of the director of northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital was killed in the latest Israeli attack on the facility, health officials reported.

• Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, warned: “The entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has been announced and executed under our watch.”

• Iran has called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Israel's attacks on the country.