- At least four Israeli air strikes have hit the Haret Hreik area in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital Beirut in the past few hours.
- Lebanon’s Ministry of Health says Israeli attacks killed 59 people and wounded another 182 across the country over the previous 24-hour reporting period.
- Israel’s siege of northern Gaza continues as the territory’s Health Ministry reports that 28 Palestinians were killed and 120 injured in the past day.
- Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,764 Palestinians and wounded 103,490 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 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 3,445 people have been killed and 14,599 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.
- Israeli attacks kill five people in southern Gaza’s RafahAt least five people have been killed and others injured in Israeli attacks in Rafah city in southern Gaza.Medical sources in Gaza told the Wafa news agency that three young men were killed and others were injured after a drone hit a group of people in the Al-Janina area, east of Rafah.They added that two civilians were killed by Israeli warplanes in the Khirbet Al-Adas area, north of the city.
- Western media didn’t do much more than ‘parrot Israeli propaganda’Mohamad Elmasry, a media studies professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, has finished empirical studies looking at Western media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza.He found that Western media didn’t do much more than “parrot Israeli propaganda regarding al-Shifa Hospital [in Gaza City] and the war more generally”.Western news outlets, such as BBC, CNN, Sky News, MSNBC, Fox News, and others “tended to rely overwhelmingly on Israeli and pro-Israeli sources. Palestinian sources were mostly neglected as were pro-Palestinian sources”, he told Al Jazeera.“It’s not a conspiracy; it’s not as though journalists are showing up to work and saying, we’re really going to make the Israelis look good today. But there is a structural problem here today,” Elmasry added.“Western news organisations simply do not get Israel-Palestine right.”
- Hospitals across Gaza in dire need for ceasefireReporting from Deir el-Balah, GazaThe medical situation at Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah and other hospitals across the Gaza Strip remains critically dire following a year of deadly war.Al-Aqsa Hospital is incredibly overwhelmed, and its medical resources have been widely and critically depleted.The facility has been struggling to cope with the influx of hundreds of patients arriving daily, with very limited staff and operating theatres.Organisations such as Doctors Without Borders have been providing critical support to Al-Aqsa Hospital and many hospitals across Gaza, but given the scale of the crisis on the ground, the needs far outweigh the available assistance.Al-Aqsa Hospital exemplifies the catastrophic state of Gaza’s healthcare system across many areas where the need for a ceasefire and humanitarian access day by day mounts.
- Israel launches series of raids in southern Lebanon’s NabatiehAn Israeli warplane has bombed a house in the Qalaa neighbourhood in the village of Sir al-Gharbiya north of the Litani River in the Nabatieh governorate, destroying it completely, according to the National News Agency (NNA).In the same governorate, a series of air strikes also targeted the villages of al-Jumayjimah, Chaqra and Barashit in the Bint Jbeil district, the agency said.Also in Nabatieh, an Israeli aircraft bombed a three-storey family home in the village of Ebba, NNA reported.
- Footage shows Israeli attack on Beirut’s southern suburbsLebanese media outlets have published footage documenting the first moments of the Israeli air strikes on some buildings in the Haret Hreik area in the southern suburbs of the capital.The video below was verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad.
- Israeli forces destroy residential buildings in Jabalia campPalestinian journalist Muhammad al-Sharef has shared a video on Instagram, showing a large cloud of smoke rising in northern Gaza following Israeli attacks.Al-Sharef wrote that Israeli forces blew up residential buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp.The video has been verified by Sanad, Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency.
- Israel strikes Beirut’s southern suburbA plume of smoke has been seen rising over the buildings in the Haret Hreik area of Beirut, according to the AFP news agency, shortly after the Israeli army ordered an evacuation for residents near two buildings.Lebanon’s National News Agency also reported “a very violent raid” on Haret Hrek.
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