- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees in the world per capita with “many losing limbs and undergoing surgeries without even anaesthesia”.
- Only a handful of aid trucks are entering Gaza each week, part of a “systematic attempt” to keep Palestinians “in the cold and keep them starving”, says the Norwegian Refugee Council.
- Israeli forces continue to bombard Gaza, attacking Jabalia in the north and Abasan al-Kabira in the south, as rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas meet in Cairo to discuss a proposal to reopen the Rafah border crossing.
- Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 44,466 Palestinians and wounded 105,358 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
- In Lebanon, at least 3,961 people have been killed and 16,520 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.
- Israel is not violating ceasefire with Lebanon: Israeli FMWe are receiving updates on today’s phone call between the Israeli and French top diplomats.Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says he told his French counterpart that Israel was not “violating the ceasefire understandings but rather enforcing them in response to Hezbollah’s violations”.“The presence of Hezbollah operatives south of the Litani [River] is a fundamental violation of the agreement and they must move north,” he added.France’s foreign ministry said earlier that Jean-Noel Barrot stressed “the need for all sides to respect the ceasefire in Lebanon” in the phone call.
- One security personnel killed in Israeli attack: Lebanese authoritiesLebanon’s state security says an Israeli drone attack killed a member of its force while he was on duty in Nabatieh – 12km (7 miles) from the border.State security called it a “flagrant violation” of the truce, according to Reuters.The Israeli military has reportedly conducted attacks on Lebanon in the last few days after Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire that started on Wednesday, putting a halt to more than a year of war.
- )France tells Israel all sides must abide by Lebanon ceasefireForeign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has told his Israeli counterpart the truce that started last week between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah should be respected by all sides.Barrot spoke to Gideon Saar by phone, the French Foreign Ministry said.
- Israel’s siege of northern Gaza ‘nothing short of ethnic cleansing’Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central GazaToday marks 60 days of the Israeli ground assault on northern Gaza.This includes systematic destruction and demolition of homes as well as attacks on families.The destruction of all means of life in northern Gaza left the region with one conclusion – what is going on is nothing short of ethnic cleansing.From what we see, the patterns of destruction, attacks, killing and detention of civilians and military siege around the area are worsening with each passing day.All of this happens as an intense bombing campaign continues.In an overnight attack, 10 people were killed in one house.
- 3,700 people killed or missing since Israel’s siege of northern Gaza: Media OfficeThe Israeli military has continued “its intensive land, air and sea aggression on northern Gaza for 60 days” that also wounded 10,000 others, Gaza’s Media Office says.A statement by the office on Telegram said 2,400 of the 3,700 people who were killed or missing were “buried” under the rubble.During the offensive, the Israeli forces also detained 1,750 people, the office added.“The occupation also targeted and prevented the work of civil defence crews in the governorate, in addition to its destruction of vital sectors,” most notably the health sector and water networks, it said.The statement said the condition of the sanitation facilities, infrastructure and road networks exacerbated the humanitarian crisis in northern Gaza, declaring the region “disaster-stricken in every sense of the word”.
- Israeli army says it struck Hezbollah targetsThe Israeli military says it attacked vehicles operating in the vicinity of military infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon’s eastern region of Bekaa.Troops also attacked military vehicles used to transfer weapons near the border between Syria and Lebanon in Hermel, the Israeli military said in a statement, acknowledging that a Lebanese soldier was injured in one of its attacks.Earlier today, the Lebanese army reported that one of its soldiers was injured in an Israeli drone attack on a bulldozer carrying out fortification work at a military base in the border area.The Israeli army made no mention of the person killed in the southern town of Marjayoun.
- Lebanese official asks truce committee to oblige Israel to stop breachesParliament speaker Nabih Berri also asks the committee supervising the ceasefire with Israel to urge it to withdraw from the Lebanese territory, according to a statement by his office on Facebook.Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah started implementing the ceasefire last Wednesday as part of a deal for a 60-day cessation of more than a year of hostilities.The two sides have accused each other of breaching the truce.
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