By Abdul Adil
(AA, Al Jazeera, NNA, Wafa, The Muslim News):
GAZA
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Israeli indiscriminate bombings have killed 24 Palestinians and wounded 112 others in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
Israel’s attacks in Gaza has killed at least 43,736 Palestinians and wounded 103,370 since October 7, 2023.
Meanwhile, Israeli army on Thursday killed at least 17 Palestinians, including two sisters, in the ongoing onslaught on the northern Gaza Strip.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that three Palestinians, including two little sisters, were killed and many others injured in Israeli artillery shelling of areas in Jabalia.
The Israeli army struck the eastern areas of the Jabalia Al-Nazla refugee camp and blew up homes and residential areas.
A fourth Palestinian was killed in Jabalia by an Israeli quadcopter drone as it opened fire on a group of people, local sources reported.
A mother and her child also lost their lives in an Israeli strike on their home in the northern town of Beit Lahia, the source added. Two more people were also killed and three others injured in another attack in the same town.
Three more people were killed and 10 others injured in Israeli shelling of a group of civilians in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, another medical source said.
Five people were also injured in Israeli shelling near a mosque in Jabalia in northern Gaza.
One more Palestinian was killed and several people were injured in an airstrike targeting Salah al-Din School in the Al-Nasr neighbourhood in Gaza where hundreds of people were sheltered a medical source said.
The Civil Defense Agency said that its teams were working to control a fire that erupted at the school after the attack.
An Israeli strike on a tent sheltering displaced civilians killed one person and injured several others in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, medics said.
Medical sources reported that five Palestinians, including two girls, were injured when the Israeli army bombed a residential apartment in Al-Yazji building on Al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City.
Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch says in a report Israeli authorities have caused a forced displacement of Palestinian people in Gaza to an extent that constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity.
“Human Rights Watch found that forced displacement has been widespread, and the evidence shows it has been systematic and part of a state policy. Such acts also constitute crimes against humanity,” the report said.
For the past month, Israeli troops have forced out tens of thousands of people from areas in northern Gaza, and officials in the enclave said more than 1,500 have been killed.
Human Rights Watch said the displacement of Palestinians “is likely planned to be permanent in the buffer zones and security corridors”, an action it said would amount to “ethnic cleansing”.
WEST BANK
The Israeli army arrested six more Palestinians in military raids in the occupied West Bank on Thursday as illegal settlers staged new attacks on Palestinian farmers in the occupied territory.
Army forces raided several towns in the West Bank, including Nablus, Jenin, Tubas, Ramallah, and Bethlehem, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a joint statement.
Official Palestinian news agency Wafa said that several homes were searched during the raids.
In the town of Bani Naim east of Hebron, Israeli forces searched several homes and questioned nine young people before releasing them, Wafa said.
Several homes were also searched in the towns of Yatta and as-Samu south of Hebron, but no arrests were made.
Israeli forces also raided several areas in Ramallah. No clashes or arrests were reported.
Meanwhile, illegal Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in Shufa, southeast of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank.
According to Wafa, a group of illegal settlers from the Avnei Hefetz illegal settlement attacked farmers and forced them to leave their farmlands at gunpoint.
A similar settler attack was also reported in the village of Jalud southwest of Nablus.
Israeli forces have demolished a mosque in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev.
Israeli media reported the demolition order was approved by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
LEBANON
At least nine people were killed and five others injured in an Israeli airstrike in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon on Thursday evening, local media said.
The strike targeted a two-story building in the Shaab neighborhood of Baalbek, the state news agency NNA reported.
Rescuers are searching the rubble of the building for survivors, the broadcaster said.
In Lebanon, at least 3,365 people have been killed and 14,344 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.
The Israeli army has intensified its airstrike in Baalbek since Oct. 31, where Israel says Hezbollah holds significant influence.
Baalbek, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is a historic city with origins dating back approximately 3,000 years.
Lebanese officials have expressed concerns that Israeli airstrikes in the city could damage its ancient monuments, which have already suffered damage in recent attacks.
A farmer was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Thursday as Israel intensified its air campaign on the Arab country.
The state news agency NNA reported the fatality in the attack that targeted the village of Habbariyeh.
Meanwhile, a female correspondent for the local channel LBC TV narrowly survived an Israeli airstrike as she was covering developments in the southern town of Deir El Zahrani.
She was injured and her vehicle damaged in the attack, NNA said.
Local media also reported Israeli strikes and artillery shelling in several southern towns, including Tayr Harfa, Zibqine, Jbal El Botm, Jebbayn, and Chihinein.
Separately, Israeli army forces demolished a mosque in the town of Yarine in southern Lebanon, NNA said.
The Lebanese Hezbollah says its fighters have launched rockets at the Yesud HaMaala, Manara and Dishon settlements, as well as the Dovev military barracks, in northern Israel.
Hezbollah also claimed to have carried out two separate air attacks on the Yaroun and Ein Yaqoub settlements in northern Israel with attack drones, saying the targets were hit accurately
SYRIA
At least 15 people were killed and 16 others injured in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, local media said.
Women and children were among the victims in the attack that targeted residential buildings in Al Mazzeh and Qudssaya neighborhoods in Damascus, the state news agency SANA reported.
SANA said Israeli warplanes carried out the attack from the direction of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
“At about 15:20 p.m. on Thursday, Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of residential buildings in Mazzeh neighborhood in Damascus and Qudsaya area in Damascus countryside, resulting in the martyrdom of 15 people and the injury of 16 others, including women and children, ” a military source said according to SANA.
The news agency said Syrian air defenses also intercepted a “hostile projectile” in Homs in central Syria.
It did not specify if Israel was behind the incident.
The Israeli army has claimed its air strikes on Syria, which have killed at least 15 people, were targeting Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Israel, which rarely comments on military operations, has conducted airstrikes in Syria since 2011.
[Photo: A view of smoke and fire from building bombed by Israeli air force at the Salahaddin School, where the displaced Palestinians took shelter in the er-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza on November 14, 2024. Photojournalist: Hasan N. H. Alzaanin/AA]
