Israeli strikes hit Lebanon, Gaza and Syria, as Houthis fire missile at Tel Aviv
Renewed Israeli air strikes killed civilians in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria overnight and on Friday, as Yemen's Houthis launched a long-range missile towards Tel Aviv which was intercepted by Israel's air defence systems.
An Israeli air attack at around 3am on the southern Lebanese town of Shebaa killed nine people from the same family, including four children.
Israeli air raids hit a string of towns and cities in southern Lebanon on Friday, including an air strike that levelled a building near a school in Nabatieh, and a strike that destroyed a home in Aitit, in the Tyre district.
The World Health Organisation said that 37 of 317 health centres in Lebanon had shut down and could no longer provide services due to the conflict.
The director of Bint Jbeil hospital, 4km away from the border with northern Israel, told Al Jazeera that the facility shut down due to heavy Israeli bombardment.
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More than 90,000 people were reported as newly displaced in Lebanon this week, according to the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM), adding to more than 111,000 already uprooted by the conflict.
Israeli air strikes killed 92 people and wounded 153 others in Lebanon over the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to over 700 since Monday.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces struck several areas in Gaza, including an air raid on Jabalia refugee camp which killed a man, his wife and their two disabled children.
Another Israeli attack on the Jarn area of Jabalia killed two more, while bombardment of displacement tents in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killed one man.
In Syria, at least five Syrian soldiers were killed after an Israeli air strike hit a military site along the Syrian-Lebanese border early on Friday morning, according to state news agency Sana.
Houthis target Tel Aviv
The attacks came after Yemen's Houthis fired a missile towards Tel Aviv early on Friday morning, which Israel said it intercepted with the 'Arrow' air defence system.
In July, the Houthi movement, officially known as Ansar Allah, claimed a deadly drone attack on Tel Aviv that killed one person and wounded four others.
Earlier this month, another Houthi missile reached central Israel, which Israel said was hit an interceptor and fragmented in the air.
Elsewhere, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a network of Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq, said on Friday that it had deployed drones targeting the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
The group said it "confirms the continuation of operations in pounding the strongholds of the enemies at an escalating pace".
There has been no immediate response from Israel regarding alleged attacks.
Hezbollah also said it fired rockets into Israel on Friday, including at Kiryat Ata near Haifa, and the city of Tiberias along the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Israel's military said in intercepted four unmanned aircraft that crossed into the maritime space off the coast of Rosh Hanikra at the Lebanese border.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel would discuss ceasefire proposals, hours after his office said he "did not even respond" to a US-French proposal for a three week truce.
On Thursday, US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron published a joint statement calling for a 21-day truce, aimed at paving the way for broader negotiations for a permanent ceasefire.
The temporary truce proposal was endorsed by the UK, Australia, Canada, the EU, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar.
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