(AA, Al Jazeera, Wafa, NNA): Israeli indiscriminate attacks killed at least 96 more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the overall death toll since last year to 43,020, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Monday.
A ministry statement added that some 101,110 others were injured in the ongoing assault.
“The Israeli occupation has committed five massacres of families in the last 48 hours, resulting in 96 deaths and 277 injuries,” the ministry said.
Only one doctor remains at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza after the facility’s medical staff were either arrested or evacuated by the Israeli army, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
“There is only one pediatrician left in the hospital out of all the specialties,” the ministry added in a statement.
The ministry appealed to international organizations to quickly dispatch medical teams, including surgeons, to the hospital to help treat patients and injured people.
Two Palestinians were killed and others wounded in Israeli shelling of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports.
The report said that Israeli forces bombed al-Hawaja Street in the camp on Monday evening.
On Friday, Gaza’s government media office and the World Health Organization announced losing contact with the medical staff inside the hospital after an Israeli raid.
According to witnesses, the Israeli army withdrew from the medical facility on Saturday after detaining hundreds of people, including medical staff and patients.
The Israeli army has continued a deadly onslaught in northern Gaza since Oct. 5 to allegedly prevent Hamas from regrouping amid a suffocating siege on the area. Palestinians, however, accuse Israel of seeking to occupy the area and forcibly displace its residents.
More than 1,000 people have been killed in northern Gaza since the offensive began, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense Service.
“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
The governments of Ireland, Norway, Slovenia and Spain issued a joint statement Monday condemning Israel’s decision to pass a law banning the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from operating in the country, which could affect its work in Gaza.
In a strongly worded statement, they underscored the critical importance of UNRWA’s work, which provides essential aid and support to millions of Palestinian refugees.
The statement said the agency’s work is “essential and irreplaceable,” especially amid recent escalations of the conflict in Gaza that have left civilians in dire need of humanitarian assistance.
Three civilians were killed and others were injured on Monday evening in the Israeli bombardment of different areas in the central Gaza Strip.
According to local sources, The Palestine Red Crescent paramedics transported one body and several wounded to the Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, following the occupation’s artillery attack targeting houses on Block 12 in al-Bureij camp.
Several other civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli drone shelling that targeted a group of civilians in the town of Az-Zawayda in the center of the Strip.
LEBANON
At least 60 people were killed in Israeli strikes on several areas in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.
The ministry added that:
The toll covered 12 areas in the Bekaa Valley.
At least two children were among the dead.
At least 58 people were also wounded.
The toll was preliminary as rescue efforts were still underway.
Of the 60 killed, at least 16 deaths were recorded in al-Alaq, west of Baalbek city.
Death toll from Israel’s ongoing airstrikes on Lebanon since last year has reached 2,710, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
A ministry statement said around 12,592 people have also been injured since hostilities began last October.
Israeli airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon on Sunday left 38 people dead and injured 124 others, the ministry said.
At least 35 rockets were launched from Lebanon targeting Haifa Bay and northern Israel, the Israeli army said on Monday.
“Following the sirens that sounded in the Western Galilee and Upper Galilee areas, approximately 30 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
Sirens sounded multiple times in Haifa, Akko, and towns across the Western and Upper Galilee, it added.
“Some of the projectiles were intercepted. Fallen projectiles were identified in the area,” the army said.
At least four people were killed and 10 others injured on Monday by Israeli airstrikes on a residential building and a drone attack targeting a motorcycle in eastern Lebanon.
The attacks targeted the villages of Brital and Taraya in the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency.
The initial toll from the strike on a residential building in Brital included two fatalities and 10 injuries, including several in critical condition.
The airstrike destroyed the targeted building, causing extensive damage to nearby structures and vehicles, the agency added.
Two more people were killed when an Israeli drone struck a motorcycle in Taraya in the central Bekaa region, the agency further said.
Separately, Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported on X that the death toll from an Israeli airstrike early Monday on a residential building in the Ramal neighborhood of Tyre, southern Lebanon has risen to seven, with 17 people injured.
According to the ministry, an initial report had listed five dead and 10 injured in the Tyre attack.
Since early Monday, Israeli airstrikes across southern and eastern Lebanon have killed at least 25 people, including children, and caused widespread destruction to homes, mosques, and infrastructure, according to official Lebanese sources and field data collected by Anadolu.
Israeli warplanes launched a new wave of airstrikes on Tyre in southern Lebanon on Monday, shortly after immediate evacuation orders for residents in the area.
Lebanon’s state news agency NNA said an airstrike targeted a residential apartment in Afran Al-Bahr neighborhood in the city and another hit Bafliyeh town during a funeral procession there.
Airstrikes were also reported in Burghliyeh and Jabal al-Botm, causing heavy material damage.
No information about injuries was yet available.
Israel reported a new rocket barrage by Hezbollah on Monday amid growing escalation along the Israeli-Lebanese border.
The Israeli public broadcaster KAN said around 15 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards Kiryat Shmona and other settlements in northern Israel.
least 20 more people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Monday, according to Lebanese media.
Israeli warplanes hit a building in Tyre city, leaving three people dead and injuring several others, the state news agency NNA reported.
Seven more people, including three paramedics, were killed and 24 others injured in another strike in the town of Ain Baal, the broadcaster said.
At least 18 Lebanese citizens were killed and others were injured on Monday in an Israeli airstrike on various areas in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese National News Agency said that “Israeli attacks continued on villages in the districts of Tyre and Bint Jbeil from Sunday night until Monday morning, as warplanes raided a building in the city of Tyre near Al-Jawad Restaurant, which led to the killing of three civilians.”
It said that “civil defense and medical rescue teams are still searching for missing persons among the rubble.”
Earlier today, the Israeli artillery targeted the towns of Aita al-Shaab, Ramyeh, al-Dahra, al-Bustan, Aitaroun and Kounine with a number of heavy direct shells, without causing any human casualties, with material damage recorded, according to the agency.
Last night, Israeli airstrikes on a building in the town of Ain Baal in the Tyre district resulted in the killing if seven people and the injury of 24 others, including a nurse and three paramedics, according to the agency.
In the town of Al-Burj Al-Shamali in Tyre District, the occupation’s warplanes committed a massacre in which they targeted a building, killing five people, including two paramedics.
Fighter jets also struck a building in Borj El-Chmali town, killing five people, including two paramedics, NNA said.
The Health Ministry confirmed that five people were killed and 10 others injured when Israeli warplanes launched a new airstrike in El-Raml neighborhood in Tyre city.
Israeli artillery shelling and airstrikes were also reported in several other areas in southern Lebanon, including Al-Bazourieh, Maarakeh, Shuhur, and Tayr Debba. Still, no reports about casualties were yet available.
According to an Anadolu reporter, rocket sirens sounded in the settlements of Kiryat Shmona, Al-Manara, Margaliot, and other areas close to the Lebanese border.
KAN said some of the rockets landed in open areas in the Galilee region, triggering the sirens there.
The Israeli army, meanwhile, said that it had intercepted a drone over Lebanese airspace that was fired towards Israel.
The Lebanese group Hezbollah said early Monday that it carried out six military operations since early morning against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon and northern Israel.
On Sunday, Hezbollah said it launched 29 attacks against Israeli troop deployments, sites, and settlements in southern Lebanon and northern Israel, using artillery shells, rockets, and drones.
The attacks came shortly after the Israeli army issued immediate evacuation orders for residents in several areas in Tyre.
Israeli warplanes also launched an airstrike on Burj Al-Barajneh area in Beirut’s southern suburb, causing one building to collapse.
[Photo: Mohammed al Dahdouh, killed by Israeli army in Bureij refugee camp is mourned by his relatives at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on 28 10, 2024. Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra/ AA]
