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

Israel’s defence minister has posted a video to X saying that Israel’s response to Iran’s missile attack “will be deadly, precise and above all surprising.”

“They will not understand what happened and how it happened…They will see the results," Yoav Gallant said. 

Those comments may reflect secret lobbying by US defence and intelligence officials in the Biden administration as they look to steer Israel to pursue covert attacks against Iran as opposed to high-profile missile and drone strikes.

“A series of small-scale attacks, hitting different places, would destabilise the regime even more and sow confusion. Khamenei is already paranoid,” a senior US official told MEE, referring to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.

Read more: Biden and Netanyahu hold call as US tries to shape Israeli attack on Iran

US President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it is "imperative" to restore humanitarian aid access to north Gaza, in particular by "reinvigorating the corridor from Jordan immediately", according to a readout of a call between the two leaders. 

In a phone conversation that lasted half an hour, Biden "affirmed his ironclad commitment to Israel’s security" and "condemned unequivocally Iran’s ballistic missile attack against Israel" earlier this month. He was joined by Vice President Kamala Harris on the call. 

"The President affirmed Israel’s right to protect its citizens from Hezbollah, which has fired thousands of missiles and rockets into Israel over the past year alone, while emphasizing the need to minimize harm to civilians, in particular in the densely populated areas of Beirut," the White House readout said. 

Aljazeera has condemned the targeting of two of its journalists in north Gaza by Israel over the last 48 hours, calling it "another grave violation... where Israeli forces have been increasingly hostile to media workers".

The network confirmed that one of its Arabic-language journalists, Fadi al-Wahidi, was shot in the neck earlier on Wednesday. He was working "in and around Jabalia camp" when he was critically injured, the statement said. 

Wahidi's colleague, Ali al-Attar, was also wounded in the head two days prior. He is in "critical condition" and "deprived of the necessary medical care due to the siege imposed on the area", Aljazeera said. 

"The deliberate targeting of journalists is a flagrant violation of international laws protecting the press and humanitarian workers in war zones."

Earlier this week, 19-year-old Aljazeera journalist Hassan Hamad was killed in his home in Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza. The network has lost five of its journalists in the besieged enclave since 7 October 2023. 

Statement from Al Jazeera Media Network pic.twitter.com/VtOVNIWWPS

— Gabriel Elizondo (@elizondogabriel) October 9, 2024

The Biden administration said it does not want to see what happened in Gaza happen in Lebanon, in response to comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday warning of such a scenario. 

It's Hezbollah that has "rejected all off ramps to this conflict," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. 

"The suffering we are seeing in Lebanon could have been avoided if Hezbollah would have stopped its rocket attacks on Israel," she said. 

When pressed on exactly who the US is talking to about a ceasefire deal considering Israel's rejection of it and Hezbollah's now-assassinated senior leadership, Jean-Pierre only said that "those conversations have been continuing for some time now" and that "we need a diplomatic resolution".

US President Joe Biden spoke to Netanyahu for thirty minutes earlier on Wednesday, in their first phone call since August. Jean-Pierre described the discussion as "honest" and "productive".

Last week, Politico - citing anonymous official sources - reported that the US had encouraged Israel to mount attacks on south Lebanon, despite Washington's public assertions to the contrary. 

Muslim civil society organisations have raised the alarm about a rising tide of state suppression of pro-Palestinian activism across Europe at a major security conference in Poland.

Speakers at this week’s Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Warsaw Human Dimension Conference have included Elias d’Imzalene, a prominent French Muslim activist set to stand trial later this month over a speech in which he called for “intifada in Paris” during a pro-Palestine demonstration in September.

Addressing the conference on Monday, d’Imzalene said France had become “the spearhead of Islamophobia and discrimination in Europe”.

Read more: Pro-Palestine activism facing suppression in Europe, Muslim groups warn

The UK-based non-profit Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) said it is "deeply alarmed" by the Israeli military’s forced displacement orders in north Gaza which have left 300 "critically ill" patients trapped.

Israel has ordered the forced removal of patients in Al-Awda, Indonesian and Kamal Adwan hospitals, and MAP is warning of an "erasure of the Palestinian presence in north Gaza".

Kamal Adwan hospital in particular has been shut down, but the emergency department continues to receive patients, MAP said in a statement.

"Newborn babies from the MAP-supported neonatal intensive care unit at Kamal Adwan have been evacuated to the Patient Friends Hospital in Gaza City - which MAP is also supporting - but ambulances are being detained at military checkpoints," the statement added. 

Four Palestinian men have been gunned down in the West Bank city of Nablus by what a local journalist described as Israeli special forces. 

Video of the attack shared by Anadolu Agency cameraman Hisham Abu Shaqrah showed at least four plainclothes individuals firing heavily on a vehicle in a busy street. 

The victims, all of whom were inside the targeted vehicle, have been identified as Naiem Abdelhady, Salim Abu Saadah, Issam al-Sallaaj, and Abed al-Sarafandi. 

The White House has confirmed that a phone call took place between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday.

While details are expected to be available later in the day, this is the first time the two leaders have spoken since August.

On the anniversary of the 7 October attacks, Biden called Israeli President Isaac Herzog instead of Netanyahu. 

The preferred communication channel appears to be between US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who sometimes speak multiple times a week. 

Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Tanani has reportedly been killed in north Gaza. 

Multiple journalists have also been wounded in what their colleagues describe as an Israeli sniper assault on several news crews. 

Journalist Tamer Labed, who was in the same vicinity, appears wounded in videos shared on X.

🚨BREAKING: In a shocking attack, the Israeli army targeted journalists, injuring Tamer Labed and killing Mohammed Al-Tanani while they were covering the military’s crimes in northern Gaza

Only a few journalists remain alive in northern #Gaza NOW ‼️

This is extremely serious ‼️ pic.twitter.com/Jw1xn6CbTP

— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) October 9, 2024

Meanwhile yet another Aljazeera cameraman has been injured in north Gaza, according to the network's Arabic-language correspondent Anas Al-Sharif.

Fadi Al-Wahidi is said to have been shot in the neck by an Israeli sniper while on assignment in Jabalya refugee camp. 

Aljazeera cameraman Ali Al-Attar had also been injured one day earlier, with shrapnel wounds to the head. He remains in critical condition. 

An analysis of hundreds of video clips released by the Israeli military has uncovered further evidence that Israeli air strikes on Gaza over the past year have been far from precise, leading to "devastating levels of civilian harm", a British war monitor says in a film released on Wednesday.

Airwars reviewed hours of footage of Israeli strikes on the enclave, geolocating them and matching them to incidents where Palestinians had publicly reported that civilians had been harmed.

In the first month of the war alone, Airwars said it found 17 incidents in which footage released by the Israeli military matched the exact location of where the monitor had documented civilians killed or wounded.

More than 400 Palestinian civilians, including more than 200 children, were reportedly killed in those 17 clips which represent 1 percent of all footage released in the past year, the organisation said in the film about their investigation.

Emily Tripp, Airwars' director, described the Israeli military videos as "grainy black and white clips with few details, but captions declaring they were striking Hamas targets".

Read more: Israel's own footage of Gaza air strikes documents 'unprecedented' civilian harm

An Israeli citizen who holds a British passport was arrested on Tuesday in Beirut, according to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.

The report identified the Israeli as Joshua Tartakovsky, 42, who had arrived in Beirut over the last two weeks and identified himself as a journalist.

He was found to be carrying an Israeli passport, and was subsequently arrested by security forces in Lebanon.  

At least 15 Palestinian civilians were killed on Wednesday by bombardment of tents housing displaced people in Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Wafa news agency. 

Local sources told Wafa that Israeli forces bombed a group of tents near Al-Yaman Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia, resulting in 15 deaths and several other injuries. 

The Israeli army sent messages to Palestinians in Jabalia and nearby Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia on Tuesday, ordering them to leave their homes. 

However, the interior ministry in Gaza told residents in the north not to leave, stating that Israel had previously issued such expulsion orders but did not ensure safe passages for civilians. 

Israel’s war on Gaza has seen cases brought against it in both the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

They result from the declaration of war on the Palestine enclave on 7 October 2023, following one of the deadliest days in Israel’s history. Hours earlier, Hamas had led an attack on southern Israel, during which more than 1,100 people were killed. More than 250 people, including 38 children, were taken captive, 96 of whom are reported to be in Gaza.

The Israeli response resulted in one of the worst years of recorded atrocities against civilians in recent history. Nearly 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in bombardments and attacks that have continued on a near-daily basis, including the largest reported killings of children and women in a similar period for the past two decades. Thousands more are missing and feared dead.

Now Israel faces some of its most serious legal challenges during its seven-decade history. The cases before international courts include some of the most severe allegations of violating international law of modern times, such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Palestinian groups are also facing accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity related to hostage-taking and civilians killed on 7 October.

The ICJ has issued several emergency orders mandating Israel to refrain from actions that may amount to genocide. The ICC is looking at issuing arrest warrants against Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

Here Middle East Eye looks at how the cases have evolved and the response of Israel and Hamas.

Read more: Israel's war on Gaza: What the international courts have said

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said that Israel's ongoing assault on Lebanon constitutes an "invasion."

“It is clear that there has been an invasion by a third country of a sovereign state such as Lebanon, and therefore, the international community cannot remain indifferent,” Sanchez told Parliament.

“We denounced (this situation) in Ukraine, we also denounce it in Gaza and now we are also denouncing the invasion of Lebanon,” he added.

In July Sanchez deplored the West's "double standards" regarding the war on Gaza as he joined Nato leaders in supporting Ukraine.

Spain under Sanchez has infuriated Israel's right-wing government by recognising a Palestinian state and criticising Israel's conduct of its war on Gaza.

"If we are telling our people that we are supporting Ukraine because we are defending the international law, this is the same to what we have to do towards Gaza," he said at Nato's 75th anniversary summit in Washington.

At least 43 Palestinians have been killed in overnight attacks, Al Jazeera is reporting citing medical sources.

Almost half were killed in Jabalia refugee camp where Israeli forces are conducting a renewed incursion.

The toll includes at least three children.