Israeli attacks kill 27 Palestinians overnight
- Israeli forces have killed 27 more Palestinians across Gaza, including 13 in an attack on a building in Khan Younis, as world leaders condemn the bombing of al-Mawasi “safe zone” in the south.
- Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency has found that Israel used the US-made 2,000-pound (907kg) MK-84 bombs in al-Mawasi, killing at least 19 people and wounding 60 others.
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- Two Israeli soldiers were killed after a military helicopter crashed trying to rescue an injured soldier in southern Gaza’s Rafah area.
- A truck rammed into a military checkpoint near the Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf injuring two Israeli soldiers stationed there.
- Five Palestine Red Crescent Society workers from the occupied West Bank have been in Israeli detention since dawn today after being picked up in the city of Tulkarm, the group said.
- Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank arrested 30 Palestinians in Hebron, Jenin, Ramallah and Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club.
- One person has been killed after Israeli forces carried out a drone strike in southern Lebanon’s Meiss el-Jabal town, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).
Mapping 11 months of Israel-Lebanon cross-border attacks
Israel, Hezbollah and other Lebanese groups have exchanged more than 9,613 attacks between October 7 and September 6.
About 82 percent of these attacks – 7,845 – were carried out by Israeli forces and killed at least 646 people in Lebanon.
Hezbollah and other armed groups were responsible for 1,768 attacks that killed at least 32 Israelis.
Israeli forces raid West Bank home of Palestinian man over car-ramming attack
More details are emerging on the car-ramming attack near the settlement of Givat Assaf, in the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera correspondent Nida Ibrahim, reporting from the scene of the incident, said the Israeli forces raided the house of the driver, a 58-year-old man from the town of Rafat, southwest Ramallah.
The truck rammed into a military checkpoint near the settlement of Givat Assaf injuring two Israeli soldiers stationed there, one of them critically.
While the Israeli military said the attacker had been “neutralised,” Ibrahim said the army often uses the term to mean both killed and injured. “We are receiving news from medical sources that the driver is in serious condition,” the reporter added.
PRCS emergency workers still detained in Tulkarem
We reported earlier that five Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedics were detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city.
The group says the emergency workers continue to be in detention since dawn today, and were apprehended while transporting several people, including children, from Tulkarem refugee camp.
Dozens arrested across occupied West Bank: Rights group
Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank arrested 30 Palestinians in Hebron, Jenin, Ramallah and Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club.
The group said more than 10,600 people have been arrested in the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, since the war on Gaza began in October.
At least one killed in Israeli raid on motorcycle in southern Lebanon: Report
Israel has carried out a drone strike in southern Lebanon’s Meiss el-Jabal town, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).
The Lebanon 24 broadcaster reported that the target was a motorcycle. It cited the Health Ministry’s emergency centre as saying that at least one person was killed and another injured in the attack.
Hospital in occupied West Bank city besieged
The Turkish government hospital in Tubas city has been besieged by Israeli forces, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues on the ground report.
We also reported earlier that the Israeli military had placed the occupied West Bank city under siege for several hours now, including carrying out an air strike that has killed five Palestinians.
More on Israeli military helicopter crash in Rafah
We have reported earlier that two Israeli soldiers were killed after a military helicopter crashed trying to rescue an injured soldier in southern Gaza’s Rafah area.
Since then, the Israeli army said the cause of the crash was still under investigation but an initial inquiry indicated that it “was not caused by enemy fire”.
The Commander of the Israeli Air Force, Major General Tomer Bar, appointed an IAF investigative committee to examine the circumstances of the incident, the announcement said on X.
Deliberate Israeli attacks on families inside their homes
What we are seeing right now is deliberate attacks on families inside residential homes.
These attacks are systematic. They happened at a certain point of time, all past midnight in the early hours of this morning.
There was an attack on Bureij refugee camp in the eastern part of the central area, followed by an Israeli raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the western part of the region.
One of the worst attacks took place at a home belonging to the al-Qara family in eastern Khan Younis, where 13 people were killed.
Three generations of the same family were residing there, including the grandparents, parents and children.