Netanyahu spokesperson says a drone was launched towards Israeli PM’s house
Reuters reports that a drone was launched towards Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the northern Israel town of Caesarea on Saturday, citing his spokesperson.
The spokesperson added that Netanyahu was not in the vicinity and there were no casualties.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that the Israeli military said a drone was spotted crossing into the country from Lebanon on Saturday and struck the central town of Caesarea. It said two other drones were intercepted.
The drone “hit a structure in the area of Caesarea” without causing any casualties, the military said, without elaborating.
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King Charles, Queen Camilla, and the Prince and Princess of Wales are among those who have donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)‘s appeal, launched on Thursday, reports the Press Association (PA).
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Millions in Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region urgently require food, shelter and medical care after fleeing their homes in search of safety, the DEC said.
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As donations from Britons, corporate partners and supporters surpassed £11m by Saturday, DEC chief executive Saleh Saeed said he was “extremely grateful”.
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He said:
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Every donation will make a real difference to people at this time. The levels of need are huge and millions are displaced, hungry and desperately in need of a lifeline of support.
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Giving through the DEC is the most effective way for us to get widespread and coordinated assistance to those most in need right now across Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region.
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DEC member charities are responding now and providing lifesaving food, water, shelter, medicine and so much more, where the needs are greatest.”
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Madara Hettiarachchi of the DEC said that in Gaza crops have been destroyed, meaning access to fresh food has become “severely limited” and prices are too expensive.
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She went on:
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As winter approaches the need is growing, and we urgently need more funds. The risk of famine is real. Without humanitarian access and support, hunger in Gaza will only increase.”
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The UK government is matching pound for pound the first £10m donated by the public, the DEC said.
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European Commission vice-president Josep Borrell said on Saturday the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar opened a “new perspective” for a ceasefire in Gaza, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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“Certainly after the killing of Yahya Sinwar a new perspective is open and we have to use it in order to reach a ceasefire, to release the remaining hostages and to look for a political perspective,” Borrell told journalists on the sidelines of a G7 defence summit.
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Supporters of pro-Iran armed groups in Iraq ransacked offices affiliated with a Saudi TV channel in Baghdad early on Saturday, two security sources said, after the broadcaster aired a report referring to commanders of Tehran-backed militant groups as “terrorists”.
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After midnight, between 400 and 500 people attacked the studios of a production company in Baghdad that works for the Saudi broadcaster MBC, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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“They wrecked the electronic equipment, the computers, and set fire to a part of the building,” an interior ministry source told AFP on condition of anonymity. He said the fire had been extinguished and the crowd dispersed by police.
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“Security forces are still deployed near the building,” he added. There were no immediate reports of arrests.
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On Saturday morning, a large police presence remained in the area, blocking access to the site, according to an AFP photographer.
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“The demonstrators arrived at the offices before reinforcements of riot police were sent in,” a police source told AFP, also speaking on condition of anonymity. The second source confirmed that the offices had been “set on fire” and “badly ransacked”.
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At least 42,519 Palestinians have been killed and 99,637 others injured in Israel’s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October 2023, Gaza’s health ministry said on Saturday.
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Gaza’s health ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
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At least nine people were injured in northern Israel amid a Hezbollah attack on the Haifa area and western Galilee this morning, reports the Times of Israel.
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According to the publication, a 28-year-old was left in“ light-to-moderate condition after being hit by shrapnel” after a home was hit in Kiryat Ata and a man and women in their forties were treated by Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency services.
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The Times of Israel reported that “in a separate rocket impact on a road in the western Galilee, MDA says four people were wounded, including a man in his 30s in moderate condition after being hit by shrapnel, and three others who were lightly hurt by the blast”.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said 55 rockets had been fired in the attack, including 20 at the Haifa area.
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Earlier, Hezbollah said it had fired rockets on Saturday towards Haifa in response to Israeli attacks on its strongholds in southern Lebanon.
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“The large rocket salvo” came in retaliation for Israeli attacks on south Lebanon villages, said Hezbollah.
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Israel’s attacks in Lebanon and Gaza are pushing Iran to take “legitimate steps”, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Saturday, in an apparent show of support for Tehran’s 1 October missile attack on Israel, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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“Israel’s aggressive stance is forcing Iran to take legitimate steps,” Hakan Fidan said at a joint press conference in Istanbul with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.
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Hezbollah said it fired rockets on Saturday towards a region north of Israel’s Haifa in response to Israeli attacks on its strongholds in southern Lebanon, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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“The large rocket salvo” came in retaliation for Israeli attacks on south Lebanon villages, Hezbollah announced after the Israeli army said a barrage of projectiles was fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, with sirens blaring at regular intervals.
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Reuters reports that a drone was launched towards Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the northern Israel town of Caesarea on Saturday, citing his spokesperson.
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The spokesperson added that Netanyahu was not in the vicinity and there were no casualties.
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Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that the Israeli military said a drone was spotted crossing into the country from Lebanon on Saturday and struck the central town of Caesarea. It said two other drones were intercepted.
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The drone “hit a structure in the area of Caesarea” without causing any casualties, the military said, without elaborating.
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Health authorities in Gaza said Israeli forces surrounded and shelled the Indonesian hospital in the territory’s northern town of Beit Lahia at dawn on Saturday, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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“Israeli tanks have completely surrounded the hospital, cut off electricity and shelled the hospital, targeting the second and third floors with artillery,” said the facility’s director, Marwan Sultan. He added:
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There are serious risks to medical staff and patients.”
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In a statement, Gaza’s health ministry also said Israel had targeted the upper floors, adding there were “more than 40 patients and wounded in addition to the medical staff” present.
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“Heavy gunfire” towards the hospital and its courtyard had sparked a “state of great panic” among patients and staff, it added.
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Israel launched a new offensive in northern Gaza earlier this month, saying it was targeting Hamas fighters who were regrouping there.
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Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli strike the night before in nearby Jabalia killed 33 people.
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The UN humanitarian affairs agency on Friday continued “to sound the alarm about the increasingly dire and dangerous situation that civilians in northern Gaza are facing. Families there are trying to survive in atrocious conditions, under heavy bombardment.”
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Lebanese authorities said two people were killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday in Jounieh, north of Beirut, in the first strike on the area since Hezbollah and Israel started trading fire last year, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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The health ministry said an “Israeli enemy raid” hit a car in Jounieh, with Lebanese state media saying the attack occurred on a key highway linking the capital to the country’s north.
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At least 72 Palestinians were reportedly killed on Friday as Israel launched new airstrikes and sent more troops into Gaza, dashing brief hopes among many residents of the territory that Thursday’s killing of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, could bring an end to the war.
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At least 33 people were killed and 85 injured in Israeli strikes that hit several houses on Friday in Jabalia in northern Gaza, medics said, where residents said tanks blew up roads and houses.
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Reuters reported that the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said the death toll from the strikes could rise because some people were believed to be trapped under the rubble, and the Palestinian official news agency Wafa said children were among those killed. There was no immediate comment from Israel.
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Other Israeli strikes killed at least 39 Palestinians across Gaza on Friday, 20 of them in Jabalia, the Gaza health ministry said.
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Meanwhile, Iran’s supreme leader said Hamas would survive after Sinwar’s death. “His loss is certainly painful for the resistance front” against Israel, “but it will not end at all with the martyrdom of Sinwar”, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a statement.
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In Jabalia, residents said Israeli tanks had reached the heart of the camp after pushing through suburbs and residential districts. They said the Israeli army was destroying dozens of houses daily, from the air and the ground, and by placing bombs in buildings then detonating them remotely.
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The Israeli military says its operation in Jabalia is intended to stop Hamas fighters regrouping for more attacks.
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Residents said Israeli forces had effectively isolated the far northern Gazan towns of Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Beit Lahiya from Gaza City, blocking movement except for those families heeding evacuation orders and leaving the three towns. They said communications and internet services had been cut, disrupting rescue operations.
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Hamas confirmed the death of Yahya Sinwar in a defiant message that vowed the group would be undeterred by his killing. Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said its leader’s death “will only increase the strength and solidity of our movement”, adding that the group will not release the hostages it is holding captive in Gaza until Israel ends the war. Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam brigades, vowed to keep fighting Israel until the “liberation of Palestine” as it mourned Sinwar’s death.
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Israeli military officials said Israel was sending reinforcements to bolster its operation in Jabalia, raising fears of an escalation of violence there. Israel has issued evacuation orders for inhabitants in almost all of northern Gaza, but many cannot or do not want to comply. Tens of thousands of civilians are thought to be trapped in Jabalia, where conditions are deteriorating. Health officials have appealed for fuel, medical supplies and food to be sent immediately to three northern Gaza hospitals overwhelmed by the number of patients injured in Israeli attacks.
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Supporters of pro-Iran armed groups in Iraq ransacked the offices of a Saudi TV channel in Baghdad early on Saturday, a security source said, after the broadcaster aired a report referring to commanders of Tehran-backed militant groups as “terrorists”. Agence France-Presse reported that 400 to 500 people attacked the Baghdad studios of Saudi broadcaster MBC after midnight. “They wrecked the electronic equipment, the computers, and set fire to a part of the building,” an interior ministry source said on condition of anonymity. The fire had been extinguished and the crowd dispersed by police, he said.
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More than 42,500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Israeli offensive began, according to the Palestinian health ministry on Friday. Almost 100,000 have been injured. Six medical humanitarian groups were informed this week that their medical missions will now be denied entry into Gaza.
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The leaders of the US, the UK, France and Germany released a joint statement where they stressed the “immediate necessity” for ending the war in Gaza. The leaders discussed events in the Middle East, particularly the “implications” of Sinwar’s death, as well as the need to “bring the hostages home to their families, for ending the war in Gaza and ensure humanitarian aid reaches civilians”. Biden said Sinwar’s death raises “the prospect of a ceasefire” and “represents a moment of justice”.
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World leaders continued to respond to news of Sinwar’s death. Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, said “no one should mourn the death” of the Hamas leader who has Israelis and Palestinians on his hands. Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said he hoped it would open the door to a ceasefire and the release of Israeli hostages. Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said the Hamas leader fought and died “like a hero” but that “the martyrdom of commanders, leaders and heroes will not make a dent in the Islamic people’s fight against oppression and occupation”.
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Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are facing an increase in Israeli settler attacks and Israeli army violence at the start of the important olive harvest season, the UN has said. The international body’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) accused Israel on Friday of using “war-like” tactics in the West Bank amid a rise in killings and settler attacks since the olive harvest got under way last week. Nine people were killed by Israeli forces between 8 and 14 October, OCHA said.
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Israeli airstrikes killed several Lebanese citizens and injured others across Lebanon on Friday morning, Wafa, the Palestinian news agency reported, without specifying the number of casualties. A number of civilians were reportedly killed in the town of Ansar, a village in southern Lebanon, as a result of the Israeli attacks. Wafa reported the strikes also targeted various towns including al-Duwayr, Baraachit, Dabbal, Haneen, Khiam and Ramiyah.
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The Israeli army urged residents of 23 villages in southern Lebanon on Friday to evacuate northward as it intensifies its attacks in the region. The Israeli military’s Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said on X that residents were “prohibited from going south” and that doing so “could be dangerous to your life”. Lebanon’s health ministry said 45 people were killed and 179 injured in Israeli attacks across the country on Thursday.
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Al Jazeera journalist Fadi Al-Wahidi has fallen into a coma more than a week after being shot in the neck by an Israeli sniper in northern Gaza, the broadcaster reported on Friday, adding that Israel has not responded to requests to allow his evacuation for medical treatment.
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More than £11m raised after UK appeal to help people affected by conflict in Middle East
More than £11m has been raised in two days after a UK appeal to help those affected by conflict in the Middle East.
King Charles, Queen Camilla, and the Prince and Princess of Wales are among those who have donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)‘s appeal, launched on Thursday, reports the Press Association (PA).
Millions in Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region urgently require food, shelter and medical care after fleeing their homes in search of safety, the DEC said.
As donations from Britons, corporate partners and supporters surpassed £11m by Saturday, DEC chief executive Saleh Saeed said he was “extremely grateful”.
He said:
Every donation will make a real difference to people at this time. The levels of need are huge and millions are displaced, hungry and desperately in need of a lifeline of support.
Giving through the DEC is the most effective way for us to get widespread and coordinated assistance to those most in need right now across Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region.
DEC member charities are responding now and providing lifesaving food, water, shelter, medicine and so much more, where the needs are greatest.”
Madara Hettiarachchi of the DEC said that in Gaza crops have been destroyed, meaning access to fresh food has become “severely limited” and prices are too expensive.
She went on:
As winter approaches the need is growing, and we urgently need more funds. The risk of famine is real. Without humanitarian access and support, hunger in Gaza will only increase.”
The UK government is matching pound for pound the first £10m donated by the public, the DEC said.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) have more on the comments by European Commission vice-president Josep Borrell that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar opened a “new perspective” for a ceasefire in Gaza.
According to AFP, Borrell told reporters there was much to discuss at the G7 defence summit being held in Naples, Italy, including recent strikes on the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, and the possibility of a ceasefire in Gaza.
“Certainly after the killing of Yahya Sinwar a new perspective is open and we have to use it in order to reach a ceasefire, to release the remaining hostages and to look for a political perspective,” Borrell told journalists.
A morning session included discussions over recent strikes on Unifil, the UN’s Lebanon peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, where Israel is also at war with Hamas ally Hezbollah.
According to AFP, Borrell suggested the peacekeepers’ mandate should be beefed up by the UN security council to give them more scope to act amid repeated attacks on their positions they say are being conducted by Israeli forces. “They cannot act by themselves, it is certainly a limited role,” he said.
Earlier Saturday, Borrell wrote on social media that “a more robust mandate for Unifil” was needed.
As the Naples talks began, Italian defence minister Guido Crosetto told the group that the “critical situation in the Middle East”, Russia’s war in Ukraine, “profound instability” in sub-Saharan Africa and “increasing tension” in the Asia-Pacific region “highlight a deteriorated security framework with forecasts for the near future that cannot be positive”.
The Israel army has issued a new evacuation call for southern Beirut residents, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). No other details have been provided.
William Christou
Writing for the Guardian, William Christou spoke to those in Nabatieh, a city in Lebanon that saw its mayor and 15 others killed by an Israeli strike on Wednesday.
Hussein Jaber, the head of Nabatieh’s civil defence station, picked his way through a mess of shattered concrete and twisted metal piled knee high, surveying what was left of the city’s Ottoman open-air market, built in 1910 and destroyed by Israeli airstrikes last Saturday.
“When we were kids, everyone would come here to buy their things. This market wasn’t just for Nabatieh, but for all the villages around,” said Jaber, 30, gesturing at the ruined promenade, still smoking five days later.
Children’s clothes, computer parts and products from the now-levelled stores that used to line the market littered the ground, all covered in a layer of grey ash.
Also hidden among the rubble was a fragment of the US-made munition that destroyed the marketplace. The tail fin of a joint direct attack munition (Jdam) – the guidance kit which turns dumb bombs ranging from 500-2,000lbs (230-910kg) into GPS-guided bombs – was found by the Guardian and verified by the crisis, conflict and arms division of Human Rights Watch. A week earlier, another US munition was found at the site of an Israeli airstrike that killed 22 people in central Beirut.
Similar scenes of destruction were repeated across Nabatieh, the second most populated city in south Lebanon, now eerily silent and devoid of life after a week of punishing airstrikes.
Hamas leader’s killing opens ‘new perspective’ for ceasefire, says Josep Borrell
European Commission vice-president Josep Borrell said on Saturday the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar opened a “new perspective” for a ceasefire in Gaza, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“Certainly after the killing of Yahya Sinwar a new perspective is open and we have to use it in order to reach a ceasefire, to release the remaining hostages and to look for a political perspective,” Borrell told journalists on the sidelines of a G7 defence summit.
Israeli emergency services said a man was killed by shrapnel near the port city of Acre on Saturday after a barrage of rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel.
“Paramedics have pronounced the death of a man, around 50 years old, who was struck by shrapnel while sitting in his vehicle,” the Magen David Adom emergency service said in a statement, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Pro-Iran protesters storm office linked to Saudi TV channel in Iraq
Supporters of pro-Iran armed groups in Iraq ransacked offices affiliated with a Saudi TV channel in Baghdad early on Saturday, two security sources said, after the broadcaster aired a report referring to commanders of Tehran-backed militant groups as “terrorists”.
After midnight, between 400 and 500 people attacked the studios of a production company in Baghdad that works for the Saudi broadcaster MBC, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“They wrecked the electronic equipment, the computers, and set fire to a part of the building,” an interior ministry source told AFP on condition of anonymity. He said the fire had been extinguished and the crowd dispersed by police.
“Security forces are still deployed near the building,” he added. There were no immediate reports of arrests.
On Saturday morning, a large police presence remained in the area, blocking access to the site, according to an AFP photographer.
“The demonstrators arrived at the offices before reinforcements of riot police were sent in,” a police source told AFP, also speaking on condition of anonymity. The second source confirmed that the offices had been “set on fire” and “badly ransacked”.
At least 42,519 Palestinians killed since 7 October 2023 in Israeli offensive, says Gaza’s health ministry
At least 42,519 Palestinians have been killed and 99,637 others injured in Israel’s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October 2023, Gaza’s health ministry said on Saturday.
Gaza’s health ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
At least nine injured by Hezbollah attack on Haifa and western Galilee, say Israel’s emergency services
At least nine people were injured in northern Israel amid a Hezbollah attack on the Haifa area and western Galilee this morning, reports the Times of Israel.
According to the publication, a 28-year-old was left in“ light-to-moderate condition after being hit by shrapnel” after a home was hit in Kiryat Ata and a man and women in their forties were treated by Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency services.
The Times of Israel reported that “in a separate rocket impact on a road in the western Galilee, MDA says four people were wounded, including a man in his 30s in moderate condition after being hit by shrapnel, and three others who were lightly hurt by the blast”.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said 55 rockets had been fired in the attack, including 20 at the Haifa area.
Earlier, Hezbollah said it had fired rockets on Saturday towards Haifa in response to Israeli attacks on its strongholds in southern Lebanon.
“The large rocket salvo” came in retaliation for Israeli attacks on south Lebanon villages, said Hezbollah.
Turkey says Israel actions pushing Iran to take ‘legitimate steps’
Israel’s attacks in Lebanon and Gaza are pushing Iran to take “legitimate steps”, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Saturday, in an apparent show of support for Tehran’s 1 October missile attack on Israel, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“Israel’s aggressive stance is forcing Iran to take legitimate steps,” Hakan Fidan said at a joint press conference in Istanbul with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.
Hezbollah says launched rockets north of Israel’s Haifa
Hezbollah said it fired rockets on Saturday towards a region north of Israel’s Haifa in response to Israeli attacks on its strongholds in southern Lebanon, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“The large rocket salvo” came in retaliation for Israeli attacks on south Lebanon villages, Hezbollah announced after the Israeli army said a barrage of projectiles was fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, with sirens blaring at regular intervals.