- At least one civilian killed, 17 wounded in new attacks by Israeli forces in southern and eastern Lebanon. Concerns over a full-scale war in the Middle East grow as Hezbollah declares a “battle of reckoning” with Israel.
- Israeli forces pound Gaza, killing a mother and four of her children, in an attack on Deir el-Balah, and 10 more Palestinians in two separate attacks on schools-turned-shelters.
- World leaders and press freedom groups condemned Israel’s decision to send in heavily armed soldiers to shut down Al Jazeera’s bureau in the occupied West Bank.
- At least 41,431 people have been killed and 95,818 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number of those killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 was at least 1,139 while more than 200 people were taken captive.
- Israeli warnings are psychological warfareReporting from Amman, JordanIsraeli warnings are a classic example of psychological warfare that is carried out in other areas as well.We’ve seen similar things in Gaza and the West Bank. Now we’re seeing it in Lebanon.They issue these warnings, which are really intended to imply to civilians that their leaders, people fighting on their side, and people surrounding them are using them as human shields.This is an accusation that the Israeli army has put up against Hamas in the past, and against armed groups in the West Bank.It is part and parcel of what Israel does. It masks its own aggression, tactics and military prowess in this cocoon of the idea that the other side is using the population that Israel is killing as human shields, whether that is true or not.And Israel has shown no differentiation in its own military acts in the past anytime it’s come across a civilian population.
- South Lebanon residents receive calls to move away from Hezbollah sitesResidents of southern Lebanon are receiving phone calls from a Lebanese number ordering them to immediately move away from any post used by Hezbollah, Reuters is reporting.In a televised statement earlier, an Israeli military spokesperson issued a similar warning and said it was being “distributed in Arabic on all networks and platforms in Lebanon”.The Israeli army has been telling Lebanese civilians to “move away” from Hezbollah sites it plans to target and as the Israeli military said it will carry out more “extensive and precise” strikes against Hezbollah. It was the first such warning issued to Lebanese people by Israel’s military since the war in Gaza erupted nearly a year ago.
- Rocket hits area in Lebanon previously not targetedA rocket hit an uninhabited mountainside east of the Lebanese port city of Byblos, according to Lebanon’s state media and a resident Reuters spoke to.The area was not hit previously by air strikes in months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.These tit-for-tat attacks have intensified in recent days, with Israel carrying out air raids across a wider region today, as we have been reporting.
- Israeli drone attack wounds Palestinians in Khan YounisOur colleagues on the ground are reporting that many Palestinians, including children, were wounded in an Israeli drone attack on the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis.
- Israeli forces continue raids, demolitions in occupied West BankIsraeli forces have continued their raids on the village of Haris, west of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank, for the second day, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.The head of the Haris village council Omar Samara told Wafa that Israeli soldiers harassed civilians and searched their homes, arresting about 70 people last night, most of them children.Samara also said the army stormed schools, arresting a number of students and teachers.Elsewhere, Israeli forces also demolished a house in al-Jiftlik village, north of Jericho. The two-storey house belonged to Nael Mustafa Bani Odeh and was built more than 15 years ago.
- What’s happening in Gaza right now?As Israeli forces strike eastern and southern Lebanon, attacks have also continued across the Gaza Strip this morning:
- Anadolu Agency quoted the civil defence in Gaza as saying that at least eight Palestinians, including two women and five children, were killed in Israeli shelling of a house and a school housing displaced people.The attack on Khalid bin al-Walid school in the Nuseirat refugee camp killed three Palestinians.Our colleagues on the ground reported that a number of Palestinians were wounded in Israeli shelling near the Hassan al-Banna Mosque in the Zeitoun neighbourhood.The Israeli army bombed the home of a Palestinian family in Bureij camp in central Gaza.
- Israel tells Lebanese residents to flee amid intense air attacksReporting from Marjayoun, LebanonAround 4:30 GMT, we heard a number of strikes.I counted 10 just in the vicinity around me.The Israeli army said it mounted intensive strikes this morning as Israeli fighters launched dozens of air strikes in scattered areas in southern and eastern Lebanon.In Tyre, which is about 80km from Beirut, strikes hit Hosh, Qasimia, and Bazouriyeh. We’ve seen the pictures from there. They seem to be very large strikes, and towns across the southern Lebanon border, including al-Tayba.Now in the Bekaa region, in the east of Lebanon, the Israeli army says they hit Nabi Rachad, Tarayya, Shmestar and Bodai, which are a very concentrated ring of towns in the Bekaa.The Israeli army spokesman has also issued an urgent warning to villages in Lebanon. He says, “If you’re inside or near a building used by Hezbollah to store weapons or combat equipment, you must evacuate the building and move away from it immediately. Anyone who is near Hezbollah elements or weapons is putting himself at risk.”
Israel’s war on Gaza live: New air strikes launched on Lebanon
