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

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers, 

Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza and Lebanon:

• Lebanon’s health ministry confirms at least 15 deaths from recent Israeli airstrikes
• In Nabatieh, a southern city, an Israeli attack on a market killed two people and sparked a large fire, according to the Lebanese Red Cross
• A joint statement from 40 countries contributing troops to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) has called for an end to Israeli attacks on peacekeepers after five UN personnel have been injured since Thursday
• US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin voiced “deep concern” to Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant about Israeli attacks on peacekeepers and the killing of two Lebanese soldiers
• Israeli forces wounded two Palestinians in the town of al-Issawiya, north-east of occupied East Jerusalem, with one in critical condition
• Israel's assault on Gaza continues, with at least 11 people killed in strikes on Nuseirat and Jabalia, according to Wafa news agency

Our live coverage from Gaza and Lebanon will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

'Scenes of horror' and the 'smell of death' are just some of the phrases used to define the situation in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, as Israeli troops lay siege to the city of over 100,000 people. 

Al Jazeera reporter Hossam Shabat said the camp's inhabitants are, "literally living our last moments," adding that "enemy tanks are less than 700 meters away from us. The artillery is shelling us and the quad-copters are controlling the movement of people and firing at us." 

Meanwhile, Israel launched strikes on the main commercial market street of Nabaiteh, a major city in southern Lebanon. Late on Saturday, Israel also struck the Beqaa Valley. 

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• At least 36 people have been killed across the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours

• The US is mulling deploying the THAAD anti-ballistic missile system to Israel along with US troops to operate it,  according to reports by Channel 12 news and Israel's Army Radio

• The Israeli army is storming Shuafat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, according to Arabic media reports 

• The Israeli military said that Lebanese Hezbollah fired about 320 projectiles into Israel over Yom Kippur, which ended at nightfall on Saturday

Israeli strikes have been reported in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley on Saturday nigth, according to Lebanese media. 

The attacks come as Israel also struck southern Lebanon. 

At least 36 people have been killed across Gaza as a result of Israeli strikes on Saturday, Gaza’s Civil Defence said.

The Civil Defence said amongst the dead are five people from the Abu Dalal family in the Nuseirat refugee camp, who were killed in an Israeli strike on their house. 

Israel is currently assaulting Jabalia refugee camp in a deadly siege. 

As more information comes out of besieged Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, experts and journalists are weighing in about the unprecedented nature of Israel's brutal assault. 

"Jabalia is straight out of a horror movie with it being completely surrounded with quad-copters shooting at people, war jets hovering above, bombs still ongoing, tank shelling," Palestinian policy analyst Mariam Barghouthi wrote on X. 

Gaza policy analyst Saeed Ziad said the camp was home to 150,000 starving people and that more than 1,000 homes have been blown up. Middle East Eye could not independently confirm the numbers. 

"No siege has been imposed like the one currently being imposed on Jabalia, and no genocide has been carried out like the one being carried out there," Ziad wrote. 

The Israeli army is forcing Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza to walk in front of army vehicles as human shields, Mustafa Barghouti, the chief of the Palestinian National Initiative, said on X.

Barghouti is citing reporting that Middle East Eye has also received that Israeli troops in Jabalia are burning houses and bombing them with tank and artillery fire.

Since Israel launched its offensive on northern Gaza it has  severed the area completely from Gaza City. The military is also imposing starvation warfare and preventing clean water and medical care from reaching inhabitants. 

"The Israeli army is committing terrible massacres in Jabalia refugee camp and many areas in North Gaza," Bargouthi said.

"The army is also trying to force the medical personnel to evict the three hospitals in the area," he added. 

Reports from journalists inside Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza are describing scenes of carnage and despair as Israel pummels the crowded camp with air and ground strikes. 

Al Jazeera reporter Hossam Shabat said the camp's inhabitants are, "literally living our last moments," as Israeli forces beige the area.

"Enemy tanks are less than 700 meters away from us. The artillery is shelling us and the quad-copters are controlling the movement of people and firing at us," Shabat wrote on X.

"Hundreds of warplanes and reconnaissance planes above us. A state of anticipation of how we will be targeted.. All of Jabalia is under fire," he said. 

Reporter Younis Tirawi said the situation on the ground in unprecedented even after year year of Israel's war on Gaza. 

"Dozens of bodies scattered [are] across the streets," Tirawi wrote on X.

"It smells death all over. Residents refuse to be displaced. Food [supplies] are nearly depleted & no medical services are available".

Forty nations that contribute to the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon said Saturday that they "strongly condemn recent attacks" on the peacekeepers.

"Such actions must stop immediately," said the joint statement, posted on X and signed by nations including leading contributors Indonesia, Italy and India.

At least five peacekeepers were wounded by Israeli strikes in the past 48 hours. 

The Israeli army is storming Shuafat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, according to Arabic media reports. 

Video footage posted on social media appeared to show dozens of Israeli troops moving into the camp, which is home to 130,000 Palestinians and is fully encircled by Israel's separation wall. 

Israel's foreign minister Israel Katz defends his decision to ban United Nations Secretary General António Guterres from the country.

Katz, was responding to a joint letter from 100 UN member nations protesting the move. They expressed their “full support and confidence in the Secretary General and his work”.

Katz Guterres was banned from Israel because he refused to condemn Iran’s recent missile attack against Israel along with “his antisemitic and anti-Israeli behaviour". 

Israel's Walla news site is refuting reports that the US has made a decision to transfer a THAAD  anti-missile defence system in Israel. 

Israel's Chanel 12 and Army Radio reported earlier that US troops and the THAAD would be deployed to Israel. 

Israel launched strikes on the main commercial market street of Nabaiteh, a major city in southern Lebanon, the country's state-run National News Agency said. 

Videos posted on social media show fires raging in the night and buildings collapsed into piles of rubble. 

Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron told Lebanon’s parliament speaker and Hezbollah interlocutor, Nabih Berri, that Hezbollah most "immediately" stop its missile attacks for a ceasefire to be implemented now. 

Macron has called for an arms embargo on Israel. 

The US will deploy the THAAD anti-ballistic missile system to Israel along with US troops to operate it,  according to reports by Channel 12 news and Israel's Army Radio. 

The deployment is described as part of preparations for the expected Israeli response to Iran’s recent missile attack.

The deployment would mark a deepening of the US's military footprint inside Israel.

The pentagon has said US special operations forces are stationed in Israel to “actively" help Israel  “identify hostages, including American hostages". 

Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for a drone attack on Tel Aviv on Friday that resulted in minor damage. 

Hezbollah, in a statement said, it launched a “squadron of suicide drones on the outskirts of Tel Aviv”.

The strike resulted in damage to a building and small power outage, but no casualties. 

A top United Nations official urged Israel on Saturday during a  visit to Beirut not to attack Lebanon's ports and airports, saying such an attack could spark a food crisis. 

"What I have seen and heard today is devastating, but the sense is that this can get much worse still, and that needs to be avoided," Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the UN World Food Program said. 

He said Israel made commitments not to attack the facilities, but that could change. 

"We have huge concerns and there are many, but one of them is indeed that we need the ports and we need the supply routes to continue to be able to operate".