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The Israeli army deployed a fourth division to join efforts in the ground operations in southern Lebanon.

The military's 146th Reserve Division began operations on Monday night in the western sector of southern Lebanon.

The Times of Israel reports that the number of Israeli soldiers inside Lebanon may now be over 15,000.

Turkey's foreign ministry said that nationals who applied to leave Lebanon will be evacuated on Wednesday.

Two Turkish navy ships are expected to set off for Beirut on Tuesday with a total capacity of 2,000 passengers, according to the ministry's statement.

Turkey is the latest among many countries to ramp up efforts to evacuate nationals from Lebanon as Israel's attacks on the country keep escalating.

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates:

• An Israeli strike on a home in central Gaza's Bureij refugee camp killed nine people and injured 25 others, while another strike on tents in the camp killed three, the Wafa news agency reports
• Israel says it killed the commander of Hezbollah's headquarters, Suhail Hussein Husseini, in a strike on Beirut on Monday, with no immediate comment from Hezbollah
• Hezbollah fired rockets at Israeli military positions, with no reports of casualties
• The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation said a sergeant in the army was killed fighting in northern Gaza
• French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot doubled down on President Macron's call for an arms embargo on Israel, saying it would "guarantee the security of Israel"

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• Gaza's health ministry said that 39 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 41,909 since 7 October 2023

• Additionally, 97,303 have been wounded since the start of the war

• According to Defense for Children International-Palestine, Israeli forces have killed nearly 17,000 children in Gaza since 7 October of 2023

• A medical source in Gaza told Al Jazeera Arabic that 15 people were killed in Israeli air raids targeting a house and tents for displaced residents in Al-Bureij camp, located in the central Gaza Strip

• The number of people killed by Israeli attacks in Lebanon since last October has risen to 2,083, with another 9,869 wounded, the country's health ministry said today

• The Lebanese Ministry of Health has said that the number of firefighters killed in an Israeli attack on a fire station in the town of Baraachit has risen to 10

• French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has said that Israel's security requires a diplomatic solution and cannot be achieved by "force alone"

• Israel cannot confirm the death of Hashem Safieddine, the anticipated successor to slain Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, a government spokesperson said on Monday

• The spokesperson for Hamas's military wing, the Qassam Brigades, announced the group has decided to "continue a long and painful war of attrition" against Israel

• Hezbollah has accused the Israeli military of using UN peacekeepers as human shields during operations near a Unifil base in the Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras

• The Israeli military has issued forced expulsion orders for about one-quarter of Lebanon’s southern coastline, from the mouth of the Awali River to the Israeli-Lebanese border, ahead of an upcoming maritime attack

The US has spent at least $22bn dollars on military aid to Israel and the management of spillover conflicts spawned by its war on Gaza over the past year, according to a new report examining US military spending.

The US has provided Israel with $17.9bn in military aid alone since the 7 October Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, the highest amount of military aid in the two countries' histories, adjusted for inflation.

The Biden administration pledged to support Israel unconditionally following the October 2023 attacks and has ensured a steady supply of arms despite opposition from some US officials, lawmakers and many human rights groups concerned about the devastating impact Israel's offensive has had on civilians in Gaza, and now the West Bank and Lebanon. 

The figure surpasses US military aid to its ally during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and after the signing of a historic peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

For comparison, the dollar figure is also roughly quadruple the amount Israel received in the 1980s during its war with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in Lebanon, its 15-year occupation of Lebanon, and its 2006 war with Hezbollah.

Read more: US annual military aid to Israel quadrupled since 7 October attacks

A medical source in Gaza told Al Jazeera Arabic that 15 people were killed in Israeli air raids targeting a house and tents for displaced residents in Al-Bureij camp, located in the central Gaza Strip.

A small gathering of British humanitarian workers held a vigil outside of Parliament on Monday evening to mark the lives of all those killed in the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel and the ensuing war on Gaza in the year that has passed since October 2023.

The names of more than 35,000 people killed in the conflict were printed in small text on a 15-metre scroll, including Israelis, Palestinians, foreign nationals who were living in Israel and international aid workers in Gaza. The first quarter of the list were children.

"This symbolic record is meant to mark and grieve for each life lost, honouring the memory of every person caught in the senseless violence," said the NGO organisers.

Their group stood in sombre silence holding the scroll, as commuters in steamy buses and packs of bikers glanced over. The bells of Big Ben tolled.

"We know that, over the last 12 months, there have been tens of thousands of lives lost, almost all of those in horrible circumstances," said Neil Sammonds, a senior campaigner for the UK-based charity, War on Want.

Read more: Humanitarians hold London vigil for all killed on and since 7 October attacks

Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for the missiles fired at central Israel on Monday night, stating that the attack was aimed at the Glilot military base near Tel Aviv.

The base is home to the Israeli army's elite 8200 intelligence unit.

Israeli forces shot and wounded two young Palestinian men, one critically, during an assault in al-Arroub refugee camp north of Hebron, according to Wafa.

The incident occurred when Israeli troops raided the camp, firing live ammunition, stun grenades, and tear gas.

One of the men was critically wounded after being shot in the back, while dozens of others were treated for tear gas exposure.

In a separate incident in Qalqiliya, another young man was shot in the back during an Israeli military raid. He was taken to hospital, where his condition was reported as stable.

No commentator on 7 October last year - myself included - would have predicted that the war would still be being fought with the utmost ferocity a year on.

No one would have predicted a year ago that Israel would be fighting for longer than it did when it established its state in 1948. All wars Israel has fought since have been brief shows of absolute strength.

Not for want of trying. 

Israel has bombed Gaza into the stone age. More than 70 percent of its homes have been damaged or destroyed. Israel is in the process of doing the same to Tyre, the southern suburbs of Beirut and many other parts of southern Lebanon.

No one is raising the white flag. Nor are there significant signs of revolt from a population - now living in tents - that has lost over 41,000 people directly from bombing, and three or four times more in indirect deaths.

Read more: How Netanyahu stole defeat from the jaws of victory

The Israeli military announced that it targeted Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon.

According to the military, the air strike was carried out by the Israeli air force, following intelligence directives.

Hezbollah has yet to respond to the claims.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators took to the streets of lower Manhattan to protest against the ongoing war in Gaza.

Helicopter footage from NBC New York showed part of the crowd holding a large Palestinian flag, while another group carried a banner that read "Free Palestine."

The emotions can quickly go from rage to resentment, to guilt and then back again - and they haven’t let up.

This is what's being referred to as a cycle of collective grief. 

Palestinians in the West have long been intimately familiar with the impact of the Israeli occupation of their homeland.

But the assault on Gaza since 7 October 2023 - and later the West Bank and Lebanon, which houses almost a million Palestinian refugees, has left a gaping mental and emotional wound that many are unsure will ever heal.  

Psychiatry professor at the University of California San Francisco, Jess Ghannam, has studied the Palestinian experience in comparison to that of Iraqi children after multiple invasions, as well as Muslims in the post-9/11 era, and described it as “unlike anything”. 

Read more: 'Unlike anything': A year of collective grief for Palestinians in US over Gaza

Israel cannot confirm the death of Hashem Safieddine, the potential successor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, following reports that he was targeted in an Israeli airstrike last week, a government spokesperson said on Monday, according to Reuters.

When asked about Safieddine's death, spokesperson David Mencer said during an online briefing, "We don’t have that confirmation yet. When it is confirmed, as and when, it will be on the IDF (Israeli military) website.