Live: At least 22 Palestinians killed in strike on Gaza shelter, Hezbollah hits military base inside Israel

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Hezbollah launched a complex drone attack on a military base of the Golani Brigades in central Israel that killed four soldiers and wounded dozens.

The group said it used missiles to override Israel’s air defence system and that such attacks would continue so long as Israel presses ahead with its war on Hezbollah’s “dear and noble people”.

Meanwhile, UN officials and journalists described a situation in northern Gaza “beyond terrifying,” as Israel pummels the north. At least 22 people were killed by Israeli attacks on a school housing displaced people in the north

• Israel said its soldiers stormed a Unifil base "for the sake of evacuating" wounded Israeli soldiers under fire
• The UN's chief said Israel's attack on the base could be a war crime
• Italy issued a sharp rebuke of Israel’s attack on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon
• At least five children were killed on Sunday in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza
• The Pentagon confirmed it is sending a THAAD missile defence system and US troops to Israel

The death toll from an Israeli attack on a school sheltering displaced people north of Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip has risen to 22, according to Palestinian officials. 

At least 80 people have been injured. 

Hezbollah threatened Israel with more attacks if its offensive in Lebanon continued, after the group described a complex drone attack that evaded Israel's air defence systems and killed four soldiers in central Israel. 

Hezbollah said it "promises the enemy that what it witnessed today in southern Haifa is nothing compared to what awaits it if it decides to continue its aggression against our noble and dear people". 

Hezbollah has provided new details about its deadly attack on a military base in central Israel home to the Golani Brigade.

Hezbollah said "in a qualitative and complex operation" its  missile force launched dozens of missiles into Israel to occupy its air defence systems. 

“At the same time, the air force of the Islamic Resistance launched squadrons of various drones towards various areas in Acre and Haifa. The qualitative drones were able to penetrate the Israeli air defence radars without being detected and reached their target in a training camp for the elite Golani Brigade in the Binyamina area," the group said. 

The precise attack killed at least 4 Israeli soldiers and wounded dozens. It also underscores how Israel's vaunted air defence system can be overcome by firing multiple projectiles at once. 

Footage from the base shows a the impact of the attack, including in a military mess hall. 

"As we speak, write, tweet, sob: Israeli forces are committing another massacre in northern Gaza,"  Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory said on X. 

Albanese said Palestinians in northern Gaza were being killed with "cruelty and sadism" by "Israelis who have accepted to be 'willing executioners' of a genocidal plan."   

Israel's army has said that at least four soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah drone attack on a military base in Central Israel. 

The drone hit an army base near Binyamina in central Israel. 

Dozens more Israeli soldiers were reported injured. 

"What's happening in northern Gaza is terrifying beyond words," Joyce Msuya, the acting chief of the UN's Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Agency, said. 

"Attacks by Israeli forces are intensifying. Hospitals are forced to evacuate their patients. Essential supplies running out. People forcibly displaced, cut off from aid, left to starve," Msuya wrote on X. 

Her comments come as Israeli strikes killed dozens on Sunday across Gaza, including five children and scores sheltering at a school. 

Israel has isolated the northern half of the enclave and is weighing a plan to starve Palestinians there, the Associated Press reported. 

Israel tracked a drone that Hezbollah used in a devastating attack on a military camp in Binyamina, central Israel, but lost track of it, according to a report by the Times Of Israel. 

The drone was one of two fired by Hezbollah that Israel tracked. One was shot down off the coast of Haifa.

Israeli warplanes and helicopters followed the second, one but it dropped off the radar. Israel likely believes it flew close to the ground to avoid detection. Israel assumed that it crashed or had been intercepted.

The strike hit a military base injuring at least 60 Israeli soldiers. 

Turkey has accused Israel of pursuing a policy of occupation in Lebanon, noting its attack on a Unifil base in the country's south. 

“Israel’s regular attacks on Unifil are proof that the Netanyahu government is pursuing an occupation policy toward Lebanon and is ready to use weapons under any circumstances,”a statement by Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said. 

“Each member of the UN Security Council is obliged to prevent Israeli attacks against the UN forces they have personally mandated,” the ministry added. 

At least 11 Palestinians have been killed and more wounded, as a result of Israeli  artillery shelling of a school sheltering displaced people north of Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Israel has been pummeling the besieged enclave and is weighing a plan to starve Palestinians in northern Gaza.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday urged his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian to support a "general de-escalation" in the Middle East in a call, the presidential office said.

Macron also said Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has an "absolute necessity" of moving toward a ceasefire in Lebanon without further delay.

Italy has issued a sharp rebuke of Israel’s attack on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told her Israeli counerpart Benjamin Netanyahu the attacl was “unacceptable”.

“Prime Minister Meloni reiterated that it is unacceptable for UNIFIL to have been attacked by the Israeli armed forces,” the Italian premier’s office said on Sunday. 

Hezbollah issued a warning to what the group called "Israeli settlers" living in northern Israel not to stay near Israeli army bases. 

The warning came after Hezbollah claimed credit for a drone strike on an Israeli military base in central Israel that injured at least 60. 

The casualty count from a Hezbollah drone attack on an Israeli military camp in Binyamina in central Israel has risen to 67, according to Israeli media.