By Abdul Adil
(AA, Wafa, NNA, Al Jazeera):
GAZA
At least 44 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli indiscriminate attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 43,552, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Saturday.
A ministry statement added that some 102,765 others were injured in the ongoing assault.
“Israeli forces killed 44 people and injured 81 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.
Medical sources at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis told Anadolu Agency that they received bodies of nine people killed in an Israeli attack on a tent sheltering displaced people in the city.
Separately, seven people were killed and many others injured in an airstrike targeting the Fadi Al-Sabah School, which had been used as a shelter for displaced families on Yafa Street, east of Gaza City. The injured and deceased were taken to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.
In Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, an airstrike targeted the Abu Jarad family’s home in Al-Manshiyya, killing a resident and injuring four children, the sources said.
Five Palestinians, including children, also lost their lives and four others were injured in an airstrike targeting a house in the Jabalia refugee camp, according to medical sources.
Four Palestinians were also killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent sheltering displaced people in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, according to a medical source at the Gaza European Hospital.
The Israeli army shot and killed three Palestinian detainees shortly after their release on Saturday evening in Al-Sudaniya area, northwest of Gaza, witnesses and sources said.
Their bodies were brought to the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
More information on the release of the detainees was not immediately available.
Meanwhile, number of journalists killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023 has soared to 188, media office in the blockaded enclave said on Saturday.
While Israeli forces killed on Saturday two journalists in Gaza City, another two targeted earlier were identified by the authorities, the media office said in a statement.
Al-Zahraa Abu Sukheil and Ahmed Abu Sukheil, who worked for the News Media Network, were killed on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a school sheltering the displaced in Gaza City.
The other two were identified as Mustafa Bahar and Abdulrahman Bahar, who worked for local news agency Ajel Palestine. Mustafa, a reporter was killed on March 31 near the Kuwait Roundabout south of Gaza City, while Abdulrahman, a photographer, was killed on Oct. 6 in the Al-Karama neighborhood, northwest of Gaza City.
The media office condemned the targeting of Palestinian journalists, holding Israel fully responsible. It urged the international community to pressure Israel to stop the killing of media personnel.
Journalists in Gaza face particularly high risks as they try to cover the conflict, including devastating Israeli airstrikes, famine, displacement of population and destruction of buildings.
According to the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists, the Israeli war on Gaza has killed more journalists over the past year than any other conflict over the past three decades.
Meanhile, Qatar says reports of its withdrawal from mediation efforts not true but suspended until all sides show “willingness and seriousness” to end the war.
WEST BANK
A Palestinian was killed on Saturday as the Israeli army bombed the northern West Bank city of Tubas with an anti-tank Energa shell.
Adham Zaid Izzat al-Masri was killed by Israeli soldiers after they besieged his home early Saturday, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
The Israeli army stormed the town of Aqaba early in the morning, surrounded a house, and attacked it with an Energa shell, eyewitnesses told Anadolu.
Additionally, two Palestinians were injured in the town due to the Israeli army’s incursion, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
At least 781 Palestinians have since been killed and over 6,300 injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied territory, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
LEBANON
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli strikes on the country’s south and east killed at least 33 people, including six rescue workers.
Death toll from Israeli airstrikes in the Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate of eastern Lebanon rose to 20, with 14 others injured, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Saturday.
Eleven were killed in the town of Kniseh, five in Hadath, and two each in Jamaliyah and Nabi Chit.
Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon killed at least 19 people and injured 91 others on Friday, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
The new fatalities raised the total number of people killed in Israeli attacks in the country since October 2023 to 3,136, with 13,979 others injured, a ministry statement said.
Since Oct. 31, the Israeli army has escalated its air attacks in the Baalbek District, claiming to target Hezbollah infrastructure, resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries.
Baalbek is famed for its towering Roman ruins and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Israeli airstrikes on several towns Saturday in the Tyre district in southern Lebanon killed 12 paramedics and civil defense volunteers, and injured three others.
The Lebanese Health Ministry said warplanes targeted the town of Deir Qanoun Ras Al-Ain in the Tyre district, killing six members of the Islamic Scouts — volunteers in emergency medical and civil defense operations — and a paramedic from the Islamic Health Association — a charity organization.
Strikes on Deir Qanoun Ras Al-Ain also killed a civilian and wounded 12 others.
The ministry also reported that an airstrike on the town of Ain Baal in Tyre injured three members of the Islamic Scouts.
Five members of the Islamic Scouts were killed in an airstrike on the town of Hanouiyeh in Tyre, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
The ministry condemned the continued Israeli targeting of paramedics as “an ongoing war crime that has not been deterred by the international community, which is responsible for upholding international humanitarian laws to prevent violence and genocide.”
The Health Ministry also reported that an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Midan neighborhood in Nabatieh injured 12 people.
The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre has risen to nine on Saturday, with dozens more reported injured, according to Lebanon’s official news agency.
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health announced today that at least seven people, including two children, were killed and 46 others wounded in Israeli airstrikes on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre (Sur) on Friday evening.
According to a statement from the Ministry’s Public Health Emergency Operations Center, the Israeli bombardment that targeted Tyre overnight resulted in the killing of seven individuals, including two children. The strikes also left 46 people injured, with several in critical condition.
The Ministry added that efforts are ongoing to identify the victims through DNA testing, as some body parts were found at the scene.
Rescue teams continue to work at the site, searching through the rubble for any additional survivors or missing persons.
The agency reported that Israeli warplanes conducted multiple strikes overnight targeting Tyre, hitting several locations, including a building on Safi Al-Din Street and another on Al-Madrasa Al-Deeniyah Street.
Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburb Friday night caused severe damage to some buildings at the Lebanese University, state media reported.
Some buildings of the faculties and laboratories at the Rafik Hariri campus in the Hadath area sustained extensive damage, National News Agency said on Saturday.
Bassam Badran, the university president, told reporters that the institution “will remain resilient in the face of Israeli war machinery.”
“These attacks will not deter it from continuing its mission of education and community service,” he added.
Badran said the university started the 2024-2025 academic year a few days ago, offering remote learning across all its branches and institutes.
The Rafik Hariri campus is one of the largest complexes of the Lebanese University, housing many of its faculties, including science, engineering, medicine, pharmacy, and others.
Hezbollah announced Saturday that it launched rockets at military bases and settlements in northern Israel, some of which were targeted multiple times.
The Lebanese group also said it hit five gatherings of Israeli soldiers, artillery positions in northern Israel and downed an Israeli drone in southern Lebanon, bringing the number of attacks Saturday to 23 by (1730GMT).
In central Israel, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the first-ever missile attack on the Malam factory, which produces air defense and missile systems in southern Tel Aviv, located 132 kilometers (82 miles) from the Lebanese border.
In northern Israel, the group reported it launched two separate rocket salvos on the Zevulun military industrial base in northern Haifa and the Meron base.
Hezbollah said it targeted the Haifa Technical Base twice with two separate rocket salvos. The base is linked to the Israeli Air Force and includes a training college for air force technicians.
The group reported using drones for the first time in a precise attack on the Ein Khozlot military communications base, located 55 kilometers from the Lebanese border, south of Lake Tiberias.
It launched rocket salvos at Safed twice and Nahariya, as well as the settlements of Katzrin, Hatzor Haglilit, Rosh Pina, Metula, Maalot Tarshiha (twice), Kiryat Shmona, Kiryat Bialik and Kiryat Yam (twice).
Hezbollah reported targeting artillery positions in the Hagoshrim settlement in the Finger of the Galilee region, as well as in the Kiryat Shmona settlement with rocket salvos.
The group also struck three gatherings of soldiers in the Baghdadi military site and the settlements of Manara and Avivim in northern Israel.
In southern Lebanon, Hezbollah said it launched a rocket salvo on an Israeli military gathering south of the town of Maroun al-Ras and used drones to target another gathering east of Maroun al-Ras.
Additionally, Hezbollah reported that it downed an Israeli Hermes 450 drone in the town of Deir Siriane using a surface-to-air missile.
The Israeli army on Saturday claimed that 10 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards the Upper Galilee and Haifa Bay in northern Israel.
According to an Israeli army statement on X, some of the rockets fired in the morning were successfully intercepted while some fell in open areas.
The daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that one of the rockets landed in an open area near Kiryat Bialik in Haifa Bay.
Earlier, air raid sirens sounded in the cities of Acre, Kfar Masaryk, and the industrial area of Sha’ar HaNegev, as well as in Ein HaMifratz and Kiryat Bialik.
Israeli Channel 12 also reported that five more rockets were fired from Lebanon towards the city of Safed in Upper Galilee. The Israeli army intercepted some of the missiles, while others landed in open fields without causing injuries.
YEMEN
The Houthi group said late Saturday that three US-UK airstrikes targeted the Yemeni national capital of Sanaa.
Al-Masirah TV, affiliated with the group, reported in a breaking news segment that “three US-UK airstrikes targeted the Al-Nahdain and Al-Hafa areas in Al-Sabeen district of Sanaa,” without providing details.
There was no immediate comment from Washington or London.
A coalition led by the US has been conducting airstrikes since the beginning of 2024 that it said are targeting Houthi locations in parts of Yemen in response to attacks by the group on shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The counterattacks have been occasionally met with retaliation from the group.
In solidarity with Gaza, which has been facing a genocidal war by Israel since Oct. 7, 2023, the Houthis have targeted Israeli cargo ships or those associated with Tel Aviv with missiles and drones, expressing their determination to continue operations until the end of the onslaught on the enclave.
With the intervention of Washington and London, and an escalation of tensions, the Houthis announced they consider all American and British ships military targets.
[Photo: Relatives of Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks mourn when their bodies are brought to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on November 09, 2024. Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra/AA]
