By Abdul Adil
(AA, Wafa, Al Jazeera, NNA):
LEBANON
Israeli indiscriminate bombings on Lebanon have killed at least 3,516 people and wounded 14,929 since October 2023, its Health Ministry says.
Meanwhile, 57 people were killed and 60 injured by Israeli bombardments in the last 24 hours in Lebanon.
Ten people were killed in Israeli air strikes on central Beirut on Sunday.
“The Israeli enemy strike on Ras al-Nabaa in Beirut led to a final toll of seven dead, including a woman, and 16 others wounded,” a ministry statement said.
It added that the “final toll” of an Israeli strike on the Mar Elias district late on Sunday was three dead, including a woman, and 29 wounded.
At least four people were killed following the Israeli air strike near Lebanon’s government headquarters.
The Health Ministry said 18 others were wounded in central Beirut’s Zoqaq al-Blat district.
On Sunday, a strike in the area of Ras el-Nabaa killed Hezbollah media spokesperson Mohammed Afif along with six other people, including a woman.
Later that day, four people were killed in a separate strike in the commercial district of Mar Elias. It remains unclear what the target of that strike was.
Two more medics were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the town of Qana in southern Lebanon on Monday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.
A ministry statement accused the Israeli army of violating international laws and humanitarian norms by attacking a center of the Islamic Health Association in Qana.
The Lebanese state news agency also reported Israeli airstrikes in the town of Maarakeh in Tyre district, without providing details about injuries or damage.
At least 26 people were killed and dozens injured as Israel launched fresh airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Monday, local media said.
Israeli fighter jets conducted 10 airstrikes in the city of Nabatieh, leaving eight people dead and injuring several others, the state news agency NNA reported.
Six medics were also killed in an airstrike on a center of the Hezbollah-run Islamic Health Authority in the town of Arab Salim.
One more person was killed in another attack in the Bent Jbeil district, the NNA said.
Israel continues to pound Lebanon, killing eight more paramedics, after killing Hezbollah’s top media relations officer, Mohammad Afif, in an air raid on central Beirut.
In a statement on Telegram, the group said the four workers, Musa Haidar, Mahmoud al-Sharqawi, Hilal Termos and Hussein Ramadan, had the “courage to be soldiers in the media field so that the truth of Zionist terrorism would reach every home”.
Israeli warplanes also launched airstrikes in several areas near Tyre, killing 11 people and injuring 48 others, the news agency said.
On Saturday, three Lebanese medics were killed and four others injured in Israeli airstrikes in Burj Rahal and Kfar Tebnit in southern Lebanon.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese group Hezbollah claimed a rocket attack on the Israeli troops deployed in northern Israel on Monday.
In a brief statement, the group said it fired a barrage of rockets at Israeli soldiers in the Kiryat Shmona settlement in northern Israel.
An Israeli military statement confirmed that some 30 rockets were fired from Lebanese territory towards the Galilee region in northern Israel.
The army said some of the rockets were intercepted, while others impacted open areas.
The Israeli public broadcaster KAN said two projectiles landed in open areas near the Kiryat Shmona settlement.
According to Israeli Channel 12, one of the rockets directly hit a building in the settlement, causing damage.
Israel’s national ambulance service Magen David Adom said two Israelis were hurt and treated after rocket fire in northern Israel.
The rocket barrage came a day after Hezbollah carried out 17 rocket attacks against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon and northern Israel on Sunday.
GAZA
At least 76 more Palestinians were killed in indiscriminate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 43,922, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Monday.
A ministry statement added that some 103,898 others were injured in the ongoing assault.
“The Israeli occupation has committed four massacres of families in the last 24 hours, resulting in 76 deaths and 158 injuries,” the ministry said.
“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescue teams are unable to reach them,” it added.
Meanwhile, at least 17 people were killed in a new Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia on Monday, according to a medical source.
Israeli warplanes hit and flattened a residential building near Kamal Adwan Hospital in the area, the source said.
Eyewitnesses said dozens of people and displaced civilians were inside the building at the time of the attack.
Efforts are still underway to search for survivors under the rubble.
Two Palestinians lost their lives when Israeli forces bombed the refugee camp of Jabalia in northern Gaza, one source said.
Five people were also killed and 10 others injured in an airstrike on a home west of Gaza City, the source added.
Women and children were among the victims, the source said, without giving an exact figure.
Two children were also among four people killed in another strike targeting a refugee tent in al-Mawasi in the southern city of Khan Younis, the Civil Defense Agency said.
Two drone strikes also killed three more people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the source added.
The body of a Palestinian man was also recovered after an Israeli attack in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to a medical source.
Israeli warplanes struck a home in the northern city of Beit Lahia amid reports of casualties.
Artillery shelling was also reported in the Zeitoun and Tal al-Hawa neighborhoods of Gaza City and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, but no information was yet available about injuries.
Witnesses said that Israeli forces also blew up several homes in western Rafah.
Entire Palestinian families were wiped out by the Israeli army in northern Gaza, a hospital director said on Monday.
Since Oct. 5, Israel has launched a large-scale ground operation in northern Gaza to allegedly prevent Palestinian resistance group Hamas from regrouping.
Palestinians, however, accuse Israel of seeking to occupy the area and forcibly displace its residents.
“We are now living a scene where a martyr is bidding farewell to another martyr,” said Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
More than 2,000 Palestinian have been killed and over 6,000 others in the Israeli onslaught, since October 5, according to local health authorities.
Abu Safiya called for the protection of the hospital, which has repeatedly been hit by Israeli airstrikes. He mentioned that the Israeli military has recently targeted the facility’s emergency department, causing the operations unit to stop due to flying shrapnel and creating panic among patients.
“The targeting of the hospital is a crime against the healthcare system, and the world must stop it immediately, as we are treating the injured and wounded while under constant Israeli bombardment,” Abu Safiya said.
“We appeal to the world to halt the Israeli killing machine and put an immediate end to the targeting of the hospital, which is supposed to have international protection.”
Since then, no humanitarian aid, including food, medicine, and fuel, was allowed into the area, leaving most of the population there on the verge of imminent famine.
Four Palestinians, including two children, were killed early Monday in an Israeli airstrike targeting their tent in an area designated by Israel as a “safe humanitarian zone” in the southern Gaza Strip.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli warplanes struck the tent in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, igniting it and several surrounding tents. Medical sources confirmed that, in addition to the fatalities, several others were injured, with cases ranging from moderate to serious.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called Monday for the complete occupation of the northern Gaza Strip to force Hamas to release Israeli hostages.
“To bring the hostages home, we must occupy northern Gaza entirely and tell Hamas that if they don’t return them, we will stay there forever, costing Gaza a third of its territory,” Smotrich told a meeting of his Religious Zionism Party.
Medical sources said that the occupation warplanes bombed a house belonging to the Abu Rayala family in the vicinity of Al-Jalaa Street west of Gaza City, killing five civilians and injuring others.
They added that a drone bombed a house in Jabalia Al-Nazla, north of the Gaza Strip, killing a female citizen and injuring her family members.
Meanwhile, an Israeli drone targeted a group of Palestinians in the Khirbet Al-Adas area north of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip, killing one and injuring several others.
Dozens of civil defense personnel have been killed and several centers and vehicles destroyed in the ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, the agency said on Monday.
“Some 85 civil defense personnel were killed, 301 injured and 20 detained by the Israeli army,” the organization said in a statement.
Israeli attacks have also destroyed 17 civil defense centers and 56 vehicles, including ambulances and fire engines, it added.
“We have sustained $1.3 million in losses” from Israeli attacks, the agency said.
“The Israeli onslaught has paralyzed the ability of the civil defense crews to do their humanitarian duties,” it added.
WESTBANK
A young man was killed after he was shot by Israeli forces east of Nablus, sources said.
According to the Ministry of Health, the young man was identified as Noor Ahmad Mustafa Arafat, 18.
Arafat was injured by live bullets in the chest, shoulder and abdomen during confrontations with the occupation forces east of Nablus.
Red Crescent sources said that they transferred an 18-year-old young man to the hospital after he was shot with live bullets during confrontations with the occupation forces in Nablus.
Local sources said that the Israeli forces stormed al-Masaken popular area east of Nablus and fired live bullets, during which Arafag was shot and killed.
In addition Israeli army demolished two Palestinian facilities northwest of occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, a local official said.
“Israeli forces razed two facilities that contained a pool and gymnasium in the town of Rafat for lack of a building permit,” municipal chief Sadeq Jaber told Anadolu.
He said the two structures had been built a couple of years ago.
“Israeli authorities refused to grant them the needed permits on the ground that they were built in Area C,” Jaber said, adding that some 25 structures face demolition orders in the village.
[Photo: Palestinians, including children, queue to receive food distributed by an aid organization in Deir Al Balah, Gaza on November 18, 2024. Israel’s relentless attacks on the blockaded Gaza Strip continue as Palestinians also face the dire threat of hunger due to the imposed blockade. Photojournalist: Hassan Jedi/AA]
