Israeli forces killed 43 people, injured 98 in Lebanon & killed 57, injured several Palestinians in Gaza

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Israeli forces killed 43 people, injured 98 in Lebanon & killed 57, injured several Palestinians in Gaza

(AA, Wafa, Al Jazeera, NNA): Medical sources indicated that 57 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli indiscriminate attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, 44 of them in the north of the Strip, reported Wafa News Agency. In Gaza, at least 42,603 people have been killed and 99,795 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023.

In Lebanon, Israeli forces indiscriminate bombings killed 43 people and injured 98.

GAZA

Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 640 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its military operation in northern Gaza 17 days ago.

At least 10 civilians were killed and 30 others were injured todayas a result of the Israeli occupation artillery shelling of Jabalia Preparatory School, which houses displaced people in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

Local sources said that medical teams recovered the bodies of at least 10 slain Palestinians and a number of wounded in Israeli artillery shelling of Jabalia Preparatory School in the Al-Fawqa area schools square, which is a UNRWA shelter for displaced people in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Monday called on Israeli authorities to allow its team to enter northern Gaza to carry out lifesaving rescue missions amid an ongoing Israeli deadly incursion that has lasted over two weeks.

In a statement, UNRWA said it reiterates an urgent demand by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to Israeli authorities “to allow access in order to carry out lifesaving rescue operations in (northern) Gaza, including the recovery of people trapped under rubble.”

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini earlier on Monday said that Israel is prohibiting the entry of humanitarian aid into northern Gaza.

The UN on Monday reported that Israeli authorities have denied access to the Falouja area of Jabalya in northern Gaza for the fourth day, leaving people trapped under the rubble with no aid.

Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said a separate request to distribute food, medicine, and fuel to power water facilities in Jabalya was also denied by Israel.

“The fuel needed to keep water facilities running has been depleted, and people are either risking their lives to find drinking water or consuming water from unsafe sources,” Haq added.

Warning “that almost no humanitarian aid is getting into Jabalya refugee camp,” Haq stated that telecommunications in the area are severely disrupted, making it difficult for civilians to access aid, as Israeli airstrikes and shelling continue across northern Gaza.

“Between 6 October and yesterday, OCHA says 28 requests for coordinated humanitarian movements into Jabalya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia – all in North Gaza Governorate – were denied by Israeli authorities and seven faced impediments,” he said, adding that only four out of 66 planned humanitarian missions through the Israeli checkpoint from southern to northern Gaza were facilitated during the first 20 days of October.

Last week, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said Israel’s ban on the entry of aid has left 200,000 people in northern Gaza without food or drinking water.

Four civilians were killed and many others were injured on Monday as a result of the Israeli army’s bombing of the southern city of Khan Yunis.

Medical sources reported that four civilians were killed and many others were injured as a result of the occupation’s targeting of the Qizan al-Najjar area south of the city.

29 Palestinians, including children, were killed and many others were injured in “five new massacres” carried out by the Israeli occupation army in the northern Gaza Strip today, which included direct execution of displaced persons, shelling of civilian gatherings, targeting a house in Gaza City, and a school housing displaced persons in Beit Hanoun.

Medical sources reported that seven people were killed and wounded as a result of artillery shelling targeting displaced persons inside a school in the vicinity of Abu Rashid Pool in Jabalia camp.

Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli forces that penetrated the camp forced the displaced persons besieged in Kreizm school affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to gather and leave it.

The witnesses added that the Israeli artillery fired a shell at them after they gathered, which led to the killing of at least seven of them and the injury of dozens.

In addition, six people, including children, were killed and others were injured with varying degrees in an Israeli raid that targeted a gathering of civilians while they were trying to fill drinking water in the town of Jabalia.

In Jabalia camp, four civilians were killed in an airstrike launched by an Israeli drone on a group of citizens near al-Yaman Al-Saeed hospital.

In Gaza City, nine civilians were killed and dozens were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house belonging to Maqat family behind Sheikh Radwan pond north of the city.

Three Palestinians were also killed and many others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted Ghazi Al-Shawa school, which houses displaced people in the town of Beit Hanoun, north of the Strip.

At least 18 civilians were killed and many others were injured on Monday in an Israeli shelling that targeted the center and north of Rafah city, a group of Palestinians and a school housing displaced people in Jabalia.

Local sources reported that the Israeli artillery shelled the areas of Shaboura, Khirbet al-Adas and Urayba in the center and north of Rafah city, which led to the killing of five people and the injury of others.

They added that an Israeli drone bombed a tent housing displaced people west of Khan Yunis city, resulting in the killing and the injury of a number of civilians.

The Israeli warplanes also bombed the vicinity of the UNRWA Kreizem school, which houses displaced people, in the vicinity of Abu Rashid Pool in Jabalia camp, while they were leaving school, which led to the killing of seven of seven people and the injury of dozens.

The Israeli warplanes targeted Al-Shanti land west of Al-Saftawi area, and Sheikh Radwan neighborhood area, north of Gaza City.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday “unequivocally” condemned the mass killing of civilians in northern Gaza amid a devastating Israeli onslaught in the Palestinian enclave.

“The Secretary-General unequivocally condemns the continued and widespread loss of life in Gaza, including in the Israeli air strikes in Beit Lahia, which killed dozens of Palestinians among them, many women and children,” UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said at a news conference.

Calling for protection and respect for civilians, Haq stated that the UN chief “remains deeply alarmed by the rapidly deteriorating situation for civilians in northern Gaza, including mass displacement and the lack of essentials for survival.”

“The Secretary General calls for immediate and unhindered access for humanitarian and rescue teams to save lives,” Haq said, noting that recent Israeli attacks on hospitals in North Gaza are “exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis and placing the lives of tens of thousands at grave risk.”

Emphasizing the priority of “essential medical care and supplies,” Haq said that “the violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in Gaza by all parties to this conflict are unacceptable accountability for any international crimes that have been committed by any party is essential.”

Haq further reiterated Guterres’ call for an immediate cease-fire and release of hostages in Gaza.

LEBANON

The death toll from Israel’s ongoing onslaught on Lebanon since Oct. 8, 2023 has surged to 2,483, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Monday.

A ministry statement said 19 people were killed and 98 others injured in Israeli attacks on Sunday across Lebanon, raising the number of injured to 11,628.

The death toll, however, does not include 24 people killed in the Israeli airstrikes since early Monday in various areas in southern and eastern Lebanon.

Israel has mounted a huge air campaign in Lebanon against what it claims are Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23, displacing more than 1.34 million people.

Six women and children from the same family were killed and eight others were injured in an Israeli drone attack on the Nabi Anam neighborhood in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese media reports.

Twenty-four people were wounded in an initial toll following the Israeli attack near Rafik Hariri Hospital in southern Beirut, the Health ministry said.

An Israeli airstrike targeted an ambulance in southern Lebanon late Sunday, leaving several people injured.

The attack took place in the town of Khirbet Selm, east of Tyre, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.

Medical teams and relief workers in Lebanon have been targets of Israeli aggression since the escalation of attacks in late September.

On Oct. 3, Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad revealed that Israeli airstrikes had killed 97 medical and emergency personnel since Sept. 23 and caused damage to more than 10 hospitals, calling on the international community to intervene to stop the violations.

According to a statement from the World Health Organization (WHO) last week, Israeli aggression has led to the closure of five hospitals and 100 health care centers in Lebanon.

Israeli air strikes target Beirut’s southern suburbs again after warnings were sent to residents to leave area.

Strikes come after Hezbollah said it attacked Israeli army base near Tel Aviv.

According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, the Israeli military carried out the strike at 5.50 am local time (0250GMT), targeting the home of Ali Abdo Othman in a densely populated residential area.

The strike destroyed the building and damaged nearby homes, resulting in the deaths of six women and children from the Othman family, with eight other residents sustaining injuries ranging from critical to minor, the news agency said.

The injured were transported to hospitals for treatment, it added.

The agency reported that local civil defense teams worked to extinguish fires at the targeted home and assisted in rescue operations, recovering the bodies from under the rubble.

Volunteers from the Islamic Health Authority, the Lebanese Red Cross, and the Palestinian Shifa Association also participated in the search and rescue efforts, it added.

The Israeli army launched a series of airstrikes late Sunday on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut after threatening to bomb buildings housing branches of Al-Qard Al-Hasan, a financial institution affiliated with the Hezbollah group.

Israeli warplanes carried out at least 11 strikes targeting the association’s branches in Hayy al-Sellum, Borj al-Barajneh, Ghobeiry, Haret Hreik, Chiyah, Airport Road and Choueifet, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.

It added that among them was an airstrike on a Al-Qard Al-Hassan branch near Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport.

Other airstrikes targeted branches of the institution in Baalbek, Hermel and Ali El Nahri in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate.

Videos from some of the targeted areas showed massive destruction to the buildings hit by the Israeli airstrikes.

Earlier, the Israeli army threatened to attack “important economic assets” of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“The air force will launch extensive strikes on targets in the southern suburb of Beirut, targeting Hezbollah-linked economic assets,” army spokesperson Daniel Hagari said at a news conference.

“In a few minutes, we will issue warnings to residents in the southern suburbs and the Beqaa Valley to evacuate several buildings located near Hezbollah facilities,” Avichay Adraee, the Israeli army’s Arabic-speaking spokesperson, said on X.

Al-Qard Al-Hasan is one of the key financial institutions of Hezbollah, which was established in the 1980s as a charitable association.

The Israeli military said Monday evening that its security system intercepted some of the 33 rockets fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel, one of which landed in Tel Aviv, central Israel.

Hezbollah fighters engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli ground forces at three border points in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese media on Monday.

The state news agency NNA said Hezbollah fighters fought against Israeli forces trying to advance into the towns of Aita al-Shaab, Qaouzah, and Ramiya.

Israeli forces shelled Aita al-Shaab and Ramiya with heavy artillery, the broadcaster said.

Separately, a Lebanese girl died of wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike in Kharayeb town in eastern Lebanon, NNA reported.

Several airstrikes were also reported in the towns of Kharayeb, Houmine El Faouqa, and Jarjouaain, Habbouch and Arab Salim in southern Lebanon.

No information was yet available about injuries or damage.

The Israeli army said 32 rockets were fired from Lebanon toward the Galilee region and the Golan Heights, some of which were intercepted and others impacted the ground.

The rockets’ firing activated sirens in several settlements in the Galilee and Golan Heights areas.

Later, a rocket was fired toward Tel Aviv and landed in an open area, according to a separate statement from the Israeli military.

Though the rocket was fired from Lebanon, Tel Aviv’s air raid sirens were not activated.

There were no reports of casualties or property damage from the rockets’ firing.

SYRIA

Two people were killed and three others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a car in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday evening.

According to the state-run Syrian news agency SANA, the airstrike targeted the car in the Mazzeh residential neighborhood and killed two people while injuring three others.

The identities of the Israeli airstrike victims, however, were not revealed by the news agency.

Following the airstrike, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group dismissed reports in the media about the assassination of its chief Ziyad al-Nakhalah in Damascus, calling them “Israeli propaganda.”

[Photo: Palestinian woman reacts as Israeli forces forcibly displaced Palestinians from the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, under heavy bombardment for 17 days, on 21 10, 2024. Photojournalist: Hasan N. H. Alzaanin/ AA]