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Live: At least 22 Palestinians killed in strike on Gaza shelter, Hezbollah hits military base inside Israel
Corpses pile up in the streets of Jabalia as Israeli tanks and warplanes besiege the Gaza refugee camp
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Israel pounds Jabalia, leaving 22 dead
US sends troops and missile systems to Israel
Lebanese death toll at 2,229
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1 month ago

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

“Throughout the weekend of Yom Kippur, approximately 320 projectiles that were fired by the Hezbollah terrorist organisation crossed from Lebanon into Israel,” the military said.  

1 month ago

Jordan has called on the UN Security Council to impose a total arms embargo on Israel, citing its attacks on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, UN peacekeepers, journalists, humanitarian workers, and Lebanese soldiers. 

"Countries that truly want an end to the dangerous regional escalation and seek peace and security in the Middle East must immediately stop supplying Israel with the weapons it is using in its aggressions," Jordan's foreign minister Ayman Safadi wrote on X. 

He warned if arms supplies to Israel did not stop, "this radical Israeli government will further undermine the credibility of international law and institutions, and drag the region deeper into the abyss of an all out regional war". 

1 month ago

France, Italy and Spain issued a joint statement condemning Israel's recent targeting of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as Unifil, by the Israeli military. 

The countries said that the attacks on Unifil were "unjustifiable" and should "immediately come to an end."

The expressed “outrage” at Friday's attack on Unifil's  main base in Naqoura, Lebanon, that left several peacekeepers wounded. 

1 month ago

At least eight people have been killed by Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, Al Jazeera is reporting. 

 Israeli snipers are firing at  people trying to flee the camp, according to Al Jazeera and Doctors Without Borders. 

1 month ago

Israel's war on Lebanon risks “turning very soon into a regional conflict", a spokesman for the UN peacekeepers in Lebanon said.

Unifil spokesman Andrea Tenenti told the AFP news agency that the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah could expand with a "catastrophic impact for everyone”. 

1 month ago

At least nine people were killed by Israeli strikes on  two villages, one north of Beirut and another south of the capital, Lebanon’s health ministry said. 

One strike targeted Maaysra, a Shia-majority village in a Keserwan, a predominantly Christian district. The strike killed five people and wounded 14 others, the ministry said. 

Meanwhile, four people were killed and 14 others wounded in a strike on Barja in the Shouf mountains, a religiously diverse district south of the Lebanese capital.

1 month ago

The US believes Israel has condensed its target list for an attack on Iran down to military and energy infrastructure, NBC reported. 

US officials, who were not identified, told NBC there was no indication Israel would target Iranian nuclear facilities or attempt to assassinate specific individuals, but there was no final decision. 

1 month ago

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 19 Palestinians, Palestinian medics reported on Saturday, as Israeli forces pushed further into the Jabalia area, where thousands of civilians remain trapped, Reuters reported.

Residents reported that Israeli forces continued heavy bombardment of Jabalia, located in the northern part of the enclave, from both air and ground.

1 month ago

Israeli forces continued to push deeper into the Jabalia area on Saturday amid heavy air and ground bombing, as troops pressed on with a week-long offensive in northern Gaza.

The Israeli army launched a renewed assault on the area on 6 October, as it seemingly began to implement the so-called "general’s plan", which aims to empty northern Gaza of its 400,000 residents to make way for a "closed military zone".

The Israeli military's war jets and artillery have since been striking Jabalia, the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, trapping thousands of people in their homes. The densely populated area has been encircled and besieged for a week, with no food or water coming in.

At least 220 people have been killed since the start of the operation, according to the civil defence in Jabalia.

Conceived by retired Major-General Giora Eiland, "the general's plan", which was launched in an Israeli TV campaign in September, called for the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, warning that those that remained would face starvation.

Read more: Israeli army push deeper into Jabalia amid new expulsion orders in northern Gaza

A Palestinian youth grieves relatives killed in an overnight Israeli air strike in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, 12 October 2024 (AFP/Omar al-Qattaa)

 
1 month ago

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) reported on Saturday that an unknown gunfire incident had injured a peacekeeper near the Israeli border, marking the fifth peacekeeper wounded in the region over the past two days.

“Last night, a peacekeeper at Unifil’s headquarters in Naqura was hit by gunfire due to ongoing military activity nearby… We do not yet know the origin of the fire,” the statement said, adding that the peacekeeper's condition was “stable”.

1 month ago

Norway has condemned Israel’s "brutal warfare" in Gaza, accusing it of violating the rules of war.

“Israel’s brutal warfare in Gaza includes indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, as well as measures that prevent the population from receiving humanitarian aid. This is in violation of the rules of war,” Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said in a statement.

He stressed the need for protection, food and medical assistance for civilians, including the sick and wounded.

Eide also emphasised that a ceasefire, the release of captives and sufficient emergency aid were crucial first steps, adding: “Only a two-state solution and respect for international law can provide lasting stability and security in the Middle East.”

1 month ago

The Lebanese health minister reported that an Israeli air raid on Burja in Chouf, Mount Lebanon, killed four people and wounded 14 others.

Since September 23, Israel has been conducting a war on Lebanon, carrying out intense and deadly air strikes, including attacks on Beirut, and launching a ground incursion in the south, despite international warnings and UN resolutions.

In response, Hezbollah fires missiles, drones, and artillery daily, targeting military sites and settlements across Israel.

1 month ago

United States military veteran was arrested by Israeli forces while accompanying a Palestinian farmer in a village in the West Bank, according to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

Michael Jacobsen was in the Palestinian village of Masafer Yatta in the Hebron governorate when he and other activists as well as Palestinian land owners were approached by Israeli soldiers on Thursday morning.

The ISM said the farmer Jacobsen was accompanying was facing "daily harassment, attacks, and invasions of his private land by Israeli settlers and occupation forces".

The soldiers demanded their identification and later Israeli police were called, who arrested Jacobsen and took him into custody at an interrogation centre.

"This interrogation center is home to the special task force created by the notorious Israeli Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. The task force was created as a response to some states, including the US, sanctioning violent settlers," the Palestinian-led ISM said in a statement shared with Middle East Eye.

Read more: US military veteran arrested by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank

A photo of Michael Jacobsen.

1 month ago

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Russia, Syria and Iran to take stronger measures to protect Syria's territorial integrity following Israel's recent strike on Damascus.

"Israel is the most concrete threat to regional and global peace," Erdogan said in a Turkish media interview, according to Reuters.

He emphasised that "it is essential that Russia, Iran and Syria take more effective actions against this situation, which represents the greatest threat to Syria’s territorial integrity", according to a statement from the Turkish presidency.

1 month ago

The Palestinian foreign ministry has praised Nicaragua’s decision to sever diplomatic relations with Israel, citing the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

“The ministry views this as a reflection of Nicaragua’s high level of responsibility as a member of the international community, taking concrete steps to halt the aggression against the Palestinian people and others in the region, while upholding their right to freedom, security, dignity and peace,” the statement read.

It added that the ministry hoped Nicaragua’s decision would serve as a model for other friendly nations, encouraging similar actions to hold Israel accountable for its actions, and to counter the impunity that has allowed the war to escalate to unprecedented levels.