Live: 15 killed in Israeli bombing of camp in central Gaza

Hezbollah on Thursday said it targeted Israeli soldiers near the border with rockets.

"Our fighters today, Thursday, targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers in the Al-Thaghra area on the outskirts of the town of Odaisseh, near the Lebanese-Palestinian border, with a rocket barrage," a statement by the Lebanese group said.

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a man with a knife at the entrance to the Netzah Yehuda Brigade base near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Haaretz reported, citing an army statement. No soldiers were harmed, the report said, without providing further information on the alleged attacker.

Emirates airlines on Thursday announced that it has halted all flights to Iraq, Iran and Jordan for three days over “regional unrest”.

“Emirates is cancelling all flights to/from Iraq [Basra and Baghdad], Iran [Tehran], and Jordan [Amman] on 4th and 5th October due to regional unrest,” said the Dubai-based airline, which had previously halted flights between Dubai and Beirut until 8 October.

The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, denounced the Israeli attack that killed several paramedics on Thursday in central Beirut.

“IDF targeted once again healthcare workers overnight, in central Beirut: 7 people including paramedics were killed,” he wrote on X.

“Not only civilians are victims of attacks, including in densely populated areas, but they are deprived of emergency care. I condemn this violation of IHL.”

Israeli attacks on Lebanon since the start of the conflict a year ago have killed 1,974 people, including 127 children, and wounded 9,384, health minister Firass Abiad said on Thursday.

Russia has started evacuating its nationals from Lebanon as the Israeli war on the country intensifies, Emergencies Minister Alexander Kurenkov said.

One evacuation flight left Beirut on Thursday with family members of Russian diplomats, he said, and around 60 people are due to arrive in Russia later today.

"The evacuation is carried out on the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin," the ministry said.

Israeli tanks killed three Palestinians in an attack on the southern city of Khan Younis on Thursday, Al Jazeera reported.

An attack in the nearby village of Abasan wounded five others, the report added.

A second Lebanese soldier was killed by an Israeli attack on a military post in the Bint Jbeil area of southern Lebanon, the Lebanese army announced.

The army said earlier on Thursday that one soldier was killed and another wounded while taking part in an evacuation and rescue mission jointly with the Lebanese Red Cross.

More than 10,000 people have signed a petition demanding the reinstatement of a Cornell University graduate student who was suspended for participating in a pro-Palestinian action at the university’s career fair in Ithaca, New York.

The petition for the reinstatement of PhD student Momodou Taal was released by the Cornell Collective for Justice in Palestine (CCJP), a coalition that includes faculty, staff and graduate workers at the university.

“We demand an immediate end to his suspension, the lack of due process, and the disproportionate persecution of campus activists,” the CCJP said in a statement given to Middle East Eye on Wednesday.

“It has been over a week. We demand that Momodou Taal's temporary suspension be overturned and that due process be followed."

The CCJP accused the university of "manipulating their procedures and language" to portray Taal as dangerous.

Read more: US: Thousands sign petition demanding Cornell University reinstate pro-Palestinian PhD student

A recent Israeli air strike on Beirut’s Bashoura district earlier on Thursday killed seven health and rescue workers, according to a medical organisation.

The strike hit an apartment within a multi-story building housing the Health Society, a group of civilian first responders.

This attack, the second in 24 hours on the Health Society, marks the closest strike to central Beirut, near UN and government offices.

No prior warning was issued before the raid, and the Israeli military has yet to comment on the attack.

According to a Hezbollah source cited by L'Orient-Le Jour, Israeli air strikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut were aimed at the party's press office.

A Lebanese security source told Al Jazeera Arabic that Hezbollah detonated a third explosive device against a force from the Golani Brigade in the town of Maroun al-Ras, located in southern Lebanon.

According to the Israeli media helicopters have been dispatched to areas along the Lebanon border where clashes are ongoing.

Reports suggest helicopters are evacuating dead and wounded soldiers following a significant security incident involving the Golani unit.

The Israeli National Association for Trauma Assistance reported a sharp rise in requests for psychological support, with a 480 percent increase following the Iranian retaliation and a 225 percent rise following Israel's invasion of Lebanon.

In a TikTok video posted to his official account earlier this year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a group of orphaned children of Israeli soldiers a tour of his office, pointing to a picture of Al-Aqsa Mosque complex - only the mosque had been removed, replaced instead by a rendering of the Third Temple.

This is a picture Netanyahu looks at every day he is at work. It helps to shape the consciousness and decision-making processes of a leader who harbours ambitions to expand Israel’s territory through annexation or increased control over the occupied West Bank and Gaza, cutting off any possibility of a Palestinian state.

It was thus interesting to hear Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi assert emphatically last week that 57 Arab and Muslim countries were willing to provide security for Israel in exchange for the establishment of a Palestinian state - despite the ongoing Gaza genocide and bombardment of Lebanon.

In addition to the Palestinian issue, Israel has done immense damage across the region, including in countries that have normalised relations with Tel Aviv, fomenting public unrest.

Read more: Arab countries must stop appeasing a violent expansionist Israel

Two Belgian journalists were wounded while covering air raids in Beirut, Lebanon, their employer confirmed.

VTM correspondent Robin Ramaekers sustained facial injuries, while cameraman Stijn De Smet was treated for a leg wound, according to a statement by DPG Media, the parent company of VTM.

The company noted: “Last night there was a bombing in central Beirut. When Robin and Stijn went to report on it, they were injured." Both journalists are now in a safe location and receiving medical care.