(AA, Wafa, Al Jazeera): The Lebanese Health Ministry says Israeli attacks yesterday across the country killed 41 people and wounded 124.
Four members of the same family, including a child, were killed in an Israeli strike on their home in southern Lebanon early Tuesday, local media said.
Israeli indiscriminate attacks killed at least 55 more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 42,344, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Tuesday.
The Lebanese state news agency NNA said a father, wife and their two sons lost their lives in the attack that targeted the town of Jarjouaa, Lebanon.
The family’s house was levelled in the attack.
Death toll from Israel’s ongoing indiscriminate onslaught on Lebanon since last year has surged to 2,350, and injured 10,906, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
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.
The new attack came a day after at least 23 people were killed in Israeli strikes in the border town of Aitaroun on Monday.
The Israeli army deployed another division on Tuesday for its ground incursion into southern Lebanon, according to local media.
Israel’s Army Radio said that the 210th Division was conducting targeted ground raids in Mount Dov (Shebaa Farms).
The army has earlier announced the deployment of four divisions for its ground operation in southern Lebanon.
A military division typically comprises more than one military brigade and, according to military standards, consists of over 10,000 soldiers.
Fierce clashes have erupted between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli forces since Tel Aviv launched a ground incursion into southern Lebanon two weeks ago.
The Lebanon group said it is actively resisting Israeli infiltration attempts at 15 border points across three primary battle axes.
These axes include the western sector near Ras al-Naqoura, Kfar Kila, and Odaisseh in the eastern sector, in addition to the central sector near the town of Ramyeh.
These 15 points are at the border towns of Aitaroun, Alama Ash-Shab, al-Labouneh, Blida, Meiss al-Jabal, Ad-Dhahirah, Yaroun, Ras al-Naqoura, Maroun al-Ras, Kfar Kila, Odaisseh, Ramyeh, al-Qaouzah, Rmaich, and Debel.
Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari on Sept. 30 said that the army had begun “limited and targeted” ground attacks against Hezbollah’s infrastructure in southern Lebanon; however, Hezbollah denied any Israeli incursion at that time.
The Israeli army said Tuesday that at least 23 more soldiers were injured in clashes in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon in the last 24 hours.
The Lebanese group Hezbollah claimed rocket attacks Tuesday on deployments of Israeli forces in northern Israel and shooting down a drone over Lebanon.
The group said its fighters targeted with rockets Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of Al-Marj military site in northern Israel.
Hezbollah fighters also shelled Israeli soldiers in the occupied Lebanese Sheba Farms and the settlement of Kiryat Shmona near the Lebanese border.
Hezbollah fighters clashed with Israeli ground forces trying to infiltrate into the outskirts of Rab El-Thalathine town in southern Lebanon, the group said.
Hezbollah also said that it had shot down an Israeli Hermes 450 drone flying over Lebanon last night, without specifying where exactly the drone was intercepted.
Israeli military figures released by the army showed that some 740 soldiers have been killed and 4,881 others injured since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Israeli indiscriminate attacks killed at least 55 more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 42,344, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Tuesday.
A ministry statement added that some 99,013 others were injured in the ongoing assault.
“Israeli forces killed 55 people and injured 329 others in four massacres of families in the last 24 hours,” the ministry said.
“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
More than 40 Palestinians are killed in the latest wave of Israeli attacks across Gaza as Israel’s siege of the north continues with the army planting explosive-filled barrels to blow up homes.
At least 23 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting populated homes in central and southern Gaza on Tuesday, according to medical sources.
A source at Gaza’s European Hospital reported that 10 Palestinians from the Abu Tuaima family were killed in an airstrike on their home in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis. Among the victims were women and children. In a separate strike east of Khan Younis, five more Palestinians, including three children and a woman, were killed in the town of Al-Fukhari.
In central Gaza, five Palestinians from the Al-Salehi family were killed in a drone strike on their home in northeastern Nuseirat refugee camp. Another three people were killed in two separate airstrikes on homes in the western area of the camp, according to the same source.
Witnesses reported that the Israeli army continued shelling the northwestern areas of the Nuseirat camp throughout the morning.
A video footage showed a young Palestinian man engulfed in flames inside his tent after an Israeli airstrike on the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza Strip.
The 20-year-old man, Shaaban Ahmed Al-Dalu, a software engineering student, screamed for help while being consumed by flames.
The fire destroyed several tents, killing four displaced Palestinians, including Shaaban and his mother, and injuring over 40 others, according to the Health Ministry.
“Shaaban was not just a brother, he was a friend and a backer. Losing him is unbearable,” said his younger brother, who did not give his name.
In tears, the grieving brother recalled the tragic night.
“At 1.30 a.m., our tent was hit. I was sleeping in the next tent and couldn’t save them. I watched them burn.
“Shaaban and my mother burned to death in front of my eyes. Our family is scattered now, each of us in a different place. My sister was injured and hospitalized. My father was also hospitalized in Khan Younis,” he added through tears streaming down his face.
Shaaban’s family was displaced after their home was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, forcing them to take refuge in a tent on the grounds of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah city.
At least 26 civilians were killed and dozens were injured since midnight last night, due to the Israeli occupation’s bombing of several areas in the Gaza Strip.
In Khan Yunis, 10 Palestinians were killed and many others were injured, and others were lost under the rubble, after Israeli forces bombed a house belonging to the Abu Ta’ima family in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of the city.
Also, seven civilians, including children and women, were killed and several others were injured, after an IIsraeli raid targeted a house in the Al-Fakhari neighborhood in Khan Yunis.
In Al-Nuseirat camp, six Palestinians were killed and 8 others were injured after the occupation Israeli forces bombed a house northeast of the camp in the central Gaza Strip, and two other civilians were killed and several others were injured after bombing a house northwest of Al-Nuseirat camp.
As for Gaza City, two Palestinians were killed and more than 10 others were lost under the rubble in raids carried out by the Israeli air force that targeted a residential area in Al-Sina’a Street, southwest of Gaza City.
Three Palestinians were also killed and others were injured when the Israeli forces bombed a house belonging to the Al-Dahdouh family in the vicinity of Salah al-Din Mosque in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
In Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip, four Palestinians were killed and others were injured when the Israeli forces bombed a house belonging to the Al-Sayed family in the Al-Faluja area. A Palestinian was also killed when the Israeli forces bombed the vicinity of the Al-Numan Mosque in the middle of the Al-Nazla neighborhood.
Local sources reported that food has begun to run out in areas north of the Gaza Strip, in light of the ongoing siege imposed on them for the 11th consecutive day, in addition to a shortage of water and extreme difficulty in communications.
The residents of the northern Gaza Strip are suffering from a bitter reality between hunger, thirst and the absence of health services under the pressure of bombing and destruction since the start of the latest military operation on the evening of October 5.
At least 1,139 people were killed in Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 people taken captive.
[Photo: View of destruction after Israel targeted the tents of displaced civilians in courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on 15 10, 2024. Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra/ AA]
