Israel’s war on Gaza live: Children among 12 Palestinians killed today
- Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that 12 Palestinians have been killed since dawn as a result of continued Israeli bombings across Gaza.
- Israeli forces killed at least 26 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including five at another school-turned-shelter for war-displaced civilians in Gaza City.
Israeli forces conduct another attack in Gaza City
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that at least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid targeting Salah al-Din Street in the al-Zeitoun neighbourhood.
Earlier, an Israeli attack on a home in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood killed an elderly man and a girl, rescue workers said.
Netanyahu vows strong response to Houthi attack
As we’ve been reporting, the Houthi group said it carried out a “military operation targeting a military target” in Jaffa, using “a new hypersonic ballistic missile that succeeded in reaching its target”.
At a weekly cabinet meeting earlier today, Israel’s PM Netanyahu said that “we are exacting a heavy price for any attempt to harm us”.
He added that the current situation in northern Israel, along the border with Lebanon, “will not continue” and that he was determined to do everything possible to return northern evacuees to their homes.
Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been exchanging fire on the Israel-Lebanon border since the war on Gaza began about a year ago.
The fighting has killed dozens of people in Israel and hundreds in Lebanon, while displacing tens of thousands on both sides of the border.
Four injured in southern Lebanon attack: Report
Earlier, we reported an attack on the town of Odaisseh.
The National News Agency is now reporting citing the Lebanese Health Ministry that four people were injured in the attack and were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment.
At least 2 killed as Israeli forces hit northern Gaza
An elderly man and a girl were killed and many people wounded in an Israeli attack on the home of the al-Nimr family in Gaza’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, the Palestinian Civil Defence says.
Elsewhere, Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, reporting from the Jabalia refugee camp, says another Israeli air strike hit the al-Soweidan family home near al-Yemen Hospital, adding that it was carried out without any warning.
“Medical teams and civil defence units are recovering the dead and injured. They’re also searching the rubble for a number of missing people,” al-Sharif said.
A witness confirmed the attack to Al Jazeera amid efforts to look for survivors and casualties.
“Our teams are trying to find them and recover the bodies of the dead,” he said. “The problem is that we can’t reach all of the victims – it’s difficult to work in this area, which is completely destroyed.”
Houthi group warns Israel of more significant operations
Houthis’ military spokesperson Yahya Saree has held a news conference, talking about a missile attack earlier today that penetrated Israel’s defences, which the Israeli army said landed in an open area.
Saree said the operation employed a new hypersonic ballistic missile, which could not be intercepted.
According to Saree, the missile covered a distance of 2,040km (1,268 miles) in 11-and-a-half minutes, causing two million Israelis to flee to shelters “for the first time in the enemy’s history”.
He warned Israel of more significant operations as the first anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack approaches.
Nine injured rushing to protected areas after missile lands near Tel Aviv
Medics say nine people were lightly injured while rushing to protected areas as sirens, triggered by a missile fired from Yemen which landed east of Tel Aviv earlier today, sounded.
The Israeli army reported that the missile landed in an open area, marking a rare instance of a projectile penetrating the country’s defences.
Gaza civil defence officer’s home targeted for the third time, children killed
An Israeli attack destroyed the home of Palestinian Civil Defence officer, Zaki Emad al-Din, in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
His daughter and one of his sons were killed in the attack, according to reports from our colleagues in Gaza. Fifteen people were wounded in the attack.
This marks the third time his home has been hit. In the first attack, his wife and other children were killed.
Israel has repeatedly targeted Nuseirat. Earlier this week, Israeli bombs struck a UN-run school where about 12,000 displaced Palestinians were sheltering, killing at least 18 people.
Hezbollah claims more attacks on Israeli targets
The Lebanese group says it hit Israeli soldiers at the Matla site with a suicide drone.
Another suicide drone targeted a “technical system” at the al-Malikiyah site and destroyed it.
The Hezbollah-Israel conflict has killed dozens of people in Israel and hundreds in Lebanon and displaced tens of thousands on both sides of the border.
Qassam Brigades says it hit Israeli military in southern Gaza
Hamas’s armed group says it targeted an Israeli military bulldozer with a shell in the al-Janina neighbourhood, east of Rafah in southern Gaza.
Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces were bombing buildings in al-Mawasi, west of Rafah city.
Earlier today, the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital was chaotic, with ambulances being dispatched one after the other to the sites bombed by Israel.
It’s not only family members of those wounded or killed who are present here, but also the hundreds of displaced Palestinians, setting tents here for the last 11 months.
Many who need immediate medical care queue for hours. The operating theatre and the emergency department are flooded with many cases that need immediate attention.
According to doctors, many of these cases are quite treatable. However, there is a lack of medical supplies and staff at the hospital.
Houthi spokesman says Israel’s air defences failed to intercept Yemeni missile
Nasruddin Amer, in a post on X, appears to claim the missile attack on central Israel earlier this morning, saying Israeli air forces shot 20 interceptors at the Yemeni projectile but failed to take it down.
“It’s the beginning,” the Houthi spokesman wrote.
“The air defences failed and the Yemeni missile reached, thanks be to God,” he said in a separate post. “Previously drones and now the missiles, all of which reached without any obstacles. The future holds much much more.”
Amer added that he was waiting for a statement from the Houthi armed forces.
Israel recruiting asylum seekers from Africa for Gaza war
Israel is recruiting asylum seekers from Africa to take part in military operations in Gaza in exchange for residency rights, Israeli media outlet Haaretz reports.
The report is based on testimonies of asylum seekers who were offered permanent residency status in exchange for joining the war effort in Gaza.
Haaretz quoted unnamed military officials saying the programme was being carried out in an “organised manner” under the supervision of “defence establishment” legal advisers.
So far, none of the asylum seekers involved in the war effort has been granted official status, the report said, adding that about 30,000 asylum seekers reside in Israel.
