- At least 18 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Khan Younis in Gaza’s south, with two more deaths reported in Gaza City in the north and one in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the enclave, according to our team on the ground.
- Israeli warplanes are also bombing the eastern areas of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum in Deir el-Balah.
- At least 39,175 people have been killed and 90,403 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
- France welcomes Israeli president despite criticism as Olympics kick offIsraeli President Isaac Herzog has thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for a “warm welcome” to Paris as the Olympic Games kick off with the opening ceremony later today, amid enhanced security measures for Israeli officials and athletes.The country’s participation in the games amid its brutal war on Gaza has provoked criticism of Olympics organisers, who have a long history of banning nations deemed to have committed acts that contravene the spirit of the games.Russia and Belarus will be absent from the competition as a result of the continuing war in Ukraine.“The State of Israel is proud to participate in the Olympics and to raise its flag on this important world stage,” Herzog said on X, thanking France for helping ensure Israel’s participation.
- WHO sends more than 1 million polio vaccines to GazaThe World Health Organization chief says vaccines will be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children being infected after the virus was detected in sewage samples.“While no cases of polio have been recorded yet, without immediate action, it is just a matter of time before it reaches the thousands of children who have been left unprotected,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an opinion piece for the UK’s The Guardian newspaper.He wrote that children under five were most at risk from the viral disease, and especially infants under two since normal vaccination campaigns have been disrupted by more than nine months of conflict.Poliomyelitis, which is spread mainly through the fecal-oral route, is a highly infectious virus that can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis.Cases of polio have declined by 99 percent worldwide since 1988 thanks to mass vaccination campaigns and efforts continue to eradicate it completely.
- Hezbollah claims attacks on Israeli positions in Kfarchouba Hills, Shebaa FarmsThe Lebanese group says it has hit Israeli military positions in the occupied Lebanese territories with rockets.The group said on Telegram that the attack on Kfarchouba Hills was carried out at 12:45pm (09:45 GMT) and the strike on the occupied Shebaa Farms took place at 1pm (10:00 GMT).It did not elaborate on the results of the attacks.Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged near daily fire since Israel launched its war on Gaza in the wake of the deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on October 7.
- At least 21 people killed in new Israeli attacks across GazaAt least 18 bodies have arrived in Nasser Medical Complex this morning in Khan Younis.One person was killed in an attack on a residential building in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp.At least two people were killed in an Israeli raid on a residence on the al-Sahaba Street in central Gaza City.This is according to our team on the ground in Deir el-Balah, as well as our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
- Israel claims to have struck Hezbollah sites in southern LebanonThe Israeli military has claimed its air strikes in southern Lebanon’s Markaba village targeted a Hezbollah military structure.It said on X that the army targeted another military structure belonging to the Lebanese group in the southern village of Aita al-Shaab.
Israel war on Gaza live: New Israeli air attacks kill 21 across Gaza
