(AA, Wafa, Al Jazera): At least 63 people were killed and 234 others injured due to Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Monday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
The latest fatalities brought the death toll in the country since Oct. 2023 to 2546, with 11,862 injuries, a ministry statement added.
Meanwhile in Gaza, at least 115 more Palestinians were killed in relentless Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, in pushing up the overall death toll since last year to 42,718, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Tuesday.
Some 100,282 others have also been injured in the yearlong, ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza – crossing the 100,000 mark – according to a ministry statement.
“The Israeli occupation has committed seven massacres of families in the last 48 hours, resulting in 115 deaths and 487 injuries,” the ministry said.
LEBANON
Hezbollah said Tuesday that it downed an Israeli drone above the southern Lebanese town of Jibchit, setting it on fire.
The Lebanese group said in a statement that its air defense units successfully shot down a Hermes 450 Israeli drone with a surface-to-air missile.
The group added in a series of follow-up statements that it launched a rocket barrage on the She’ar Yashuv settlement in northern Israel and targeted two Israeli Merkava tanks near the Misgav Am area and on the outskirts of Taybeh in southern Lebanon with guided missiles, resulting in the destruction to both tanks and casualties for their crews.
The Israeli military confirmed that one of its drones crashed in southern Lebanon after the announcement by Hezbollah.
The crash took place above the town of Jibchit and the army said it has opened an investigation to determine the exact circumstances of the incident.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least 18 people have been killed, including four children, in an Israeli attack near a southern Beirut hospital.
A Hezbollah spokesman acknowledges that some of the group’s fighters have been captured by the Israeli army, adding that Israel “bears responsibility” for their lives.
At least 25 more Israeli soldiers were injured in clashes in southern Lebanon in the last 24 hours, the military said on Tuesday.
Israeli warplanes launched three airstrikes in the southern suburb of Beirut on Tuesday as Tel Aviv intensified its air campaign on Lebanon.
The attacks targeted the Ghobeiry area in southern Beirut, Lebanon’s state news agency NNA reported.
No details about injuries or damage were yet available.
Six Israeli settlers were injured in a rocket attack by Hezbollah from Lebanon on Tuesday, according to Israeli media.
Israeli Channel 12 said that Hezbollah fired more than 30 rockets into Western Galilee in northern Israel.
An Israeli was in serious condition, while five others sustained moderate injuries from the rockets that hit the Ne’ot Mordechai and Beit Haemek settlements, the broadcaster said.
The airstrikes were launched shortly after the Israeli army issued immediate evacuation orders for residents in the area.
A Lebanese hospital in Beirut has denied Israeli claims of hiding funds for Hezbollah amid a massive Israeli air campaign on Lebanon.
The Israeli army claimed that Hezbollah was keeping hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker under the Al-Sahel Hospital in southern Beirut.
Israel did not provide evidence for its claim that cash was being kept under the hospital.
The hospital’s director, Mazen Alameh, called the Israeli claims “shocking.”
“We are a well-known private hospital in Lebanon. We have no party or religious affiliation,” he told reporters.
He called for “anyone” to visit the hospital to verify the accuracy of the Israeli claims.
“This hospital was built 42 years ago. It’s impossible to have a bunker or a hideout under it,” he stressed.
Hezbollah conducted 33 operations against Israeli forces across various combat fronts Tuesday, according to statements monitored by Anadolu.
Five people were killed and seven others injured in a new Israeli airstrike Tuesday in the Hermel district of eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese media.
The fatalities occurred when Israeli fighter jets hit a building in the Ras al-Ain hills in the city of Baalbek, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.
A Hezbollah drone that targeted the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in northern Israel directly struck the window of his bedroom, according to Israeli media on Tuesday.
Hezbollah confirmed responsibility on Tuesday for the Oct. 19 attack on Netanyahu’s private home in Caesarea.
The Israeli public broadcaster KAN said the Hezbollah drone “directly and accurately hit the window of Netanyahu’s bedroom.”
KAN said the Israeli military censor allowed the media to publish that the attack had caused damage to the premier’s residence.
An image, previously barred from publication by the military censor, shows the damage caused to the home by the drone impact.
Netanyahu’s office said that the prime minister and his family were not at the site at the time of the attack.
GAZA
At least 115 more Palestinians were killed in relentless Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, in pushing up the overall death toll since last year to 42,718, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Tuesday.
Some 100,282 others have also been injured in the yearlong, ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza – crossing the 100,000 mark – according to a ministry statement.
“The Israeli occupation has committed seven massacres of families in the last 48 hours, resulting in 115 deaths and 487 injuries,” the ministry said.
“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Al Jazeera Arabic, citing medical sources, report that 57 of the 70 killed since this morning were in northern Gaza.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli bombardment of a school-turned-shelter in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, has killed at least seven Palestinians.
The report said “Israeli tanks shelled the Zayd ibn Haritha school, which was sheltering displaced persons.”
Medical sources say more than 40 people killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, the majority in the territory’s north where a devastating siege continues for an 18th day.
Israeli warplanes staged fresh airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens, according to medical sources.
A woman lost her life and several people were injured in Israeli artillery shelling near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern city of Beit Lahia, a medical source said.
Five more people were killed in Israeli bombardment in Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, the source added.
Israeli shelling also killed two more Palestinians in Sheikh Zayed Roundabout in the northern Gaza, while another Palestinian was killed in a drone strike in Jabalia, another medical source said.
The Civil Defense Service said that its medics had recovered the bodies of four people from under the rubble after an Israeli strike on a house in Khirbet Al-Adas north of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Palestinian authorities on Tuesday accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon against civilians and children in the Gaza Strip.
“More than a quarter of a million aid trucks were prevented by the Israeli army since the start of its genocidal war in October 2023,” Gaza’s government media office said in a statement.
“The occupation army continues to reinforce the starvation policy, especially in northern Gaza,” it added.
The media office said Israel has shut the Rafah crossing, a vital route for aid deliveries into Gaza from Egypt, for 169 days and tightened its suffocating blockade on the enclave.
“Preventing the entry of aid trucks is part of Israel’s policy of using starvation as a weapon of war against civilians, especially children by denying them food, baby milk, and nutritional supplements,” it said.
“This is a crime against humanity,” the media office said, denouncing international silence to “this brutal crime being committed against Palestinians in Gaza.”
At least eight civilians were killed and others were injured today in the Israeli occupation’s shelling of Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that the Israeli’s artillery targeted the displaced in the Al-Alami area in Jabalia camp, which led to the killing of 8 people and the injury of others.
The Israeli’s artillery also continued its shelling of Block 4 and Block 5 areas in Jabalia camp.
WEST BANK
A Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli army gunfire on Tuesday evening during a raid in the city of Nablus, northern West Bank.
Abdullah Jamal Hawash, 11, succumbed to critical injuries sustained from the Israeli army’s gunfire, a Palestinian Health Ministry statement said.
Witnesses told Anadolu Agency that an Israeli special force, disguised in civilian clothing, invaded the Old City of Nablus.
“The special force entered the Old City and arrested a young man, after which the occupation army sent military reinforcements to support the special unit,” the witnesses added.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that special units raided the Qaryoun neighborhood in Nablus Old City and fired tear gas.
Military figures released by the Israeli army showed that at least 750 Israeli soldiers have been killed and 5,043 others injured since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict on Oct. 7, 2023.
An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, and more than 200 were taken captive.
115 Palestinans killed, 487 injured by Israeli indiscriminate bombing in Gaza & 63 killed, 234 injured in Lebanon.
[Photo: Displaced Palestinians on the border of Jabalia refugee camp forcibly displaced by the Israeli army to the southern areas with the belongings they could take with them in Jabalia, Gaza on 22 10, 2024. Photojournalist: Mahmoud İsleem/ AA]
