Israel’s army attacks Lebanon’s Tyre, ‘demolishes’ northern Gaza
- Israel carries out multiple air strikes in the Lebanese port city of Tyre shortly after threatening residents there and ordering them to leave.
- Doctor at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza describes the situation there as “disastrous” as Israel intensifies attacks, tightens siege.
Situation in northern Gaza deteriorating as people try to flee
The situation in northern Gaza is still escalating and becoming harder every minute. Families are surrounded by Israeli soldiers, tanks, artillery shelling, quadcopters and air strikes.
They are also being arrested and interrogated, with some being shot at.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, the Palestine Red Crescent Society and other organisations are receiving a lot of calls from civilians in those areas asking for protection to evacuate because of the attacks. They are also asking for food and drink after three weeks of no supplies getting into the area.
We also need to talk about the people who are trapped under the rubble. Many Palestinians did not leave their homes and were targeted.
Civil Defence teams and paramedics are saying that they cannot reach collapsed houses because there has been a lot of shooting on them if they proceed towards the sites and that they do not have the exact location of the homes or the required equipment.
West Bank teachers keep up Gaza children’s education online
About 5,000 teachers in the occupied West Bank are using online platforms to teach Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Education.
Small education centres have also been established inside makeshift tents for the displaced in Gaza, Minister Amjad Barham said, adding that an estimated 220,000 children are pursuing their education online amid the Israeli attacks that have destroyed most schools.
UN request to bring aid to Kamal Adwan Hospital ‘denied by Israeli authorities’
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that its humanitarian teams led by the WHO have arrived at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza to evacuate critical patients.
“But our request to bring food, fuel, blood and medicines was denied by Israeli authorities,” it said in a post on X.
Richard Peeperkorn, a WHO representative, said it is “incomprehensible” that after more than a year, regular humanitarian missions are being denied.
Israeli attacks on Tyre ‘significant and of huge concern’ amid displacement crisis
These massive strikes were the first strikes that we’ve seen inside the heart of the historic and important port city of Tyre.
The last census said that it had a population of about 200,000. Obviously, we know that many people have left in recent weeks but we also know that a lot of people fleeing from fighting further south were in and around Tyre when these attacks happened.
The Israeli military has given warnings to people in the localty of what seemed to be specific buildings, telling them to move out of the area.
But these strikes are significant because they are the first time that the actual city has been hit. These developments on Tyre are a clear sign of an escalation by the Israeli military.
This of course is of huge concern, even here in Beirut further north, because it’s expected we’re going to see people potentially arriving from those areas in the coming areas and days.
Although Beirut is managing, at the moment it is under huge pressure to try and accommodate the hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced – 1.2 million countrywide, but there’s a lot of pressure on the capital.
People are being accommodated by friends and relatives, just the generosity of some people willing to accommodate some of these people who have been forced out of their homes, but there are also a lot of people living, for example, on the Corniche in tents without any proper cover.
There are also about 900 schools across the country that have been used to shelter some of these displaced people.
Israeli army says it attacked Hezbollah sites in Tyre
The Israeli army has issued a statement about its attacks on Tyre earlier today, saying it targeted “Hezbollah command and control complexes, including the headquarters of the Southern Front Unit”.
Without providing evidence, it alleged that Hezbollah had used the headquarters to promote the implementation of “terrorist” operations against Israeli citizens and forces.
Israeli settlers demolish structures in Palestinian community near Hebron: Report
Israeli settlers have destroyed Palestinian-owned residential structures in the Jurat al-Kheil community east of the town of Sa’ir, near Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
More than 15 residential structures were completely demolished and the belongings of Palestinians residing in them were confiscated, according to a resident quoted by the Palestinian Wafa news agency.
The families were reportedly taken by surprise by the demolitions, and only learned of the destruction when several community members managed to reach the area. They had been forced to leave two days earlier due to increasing threats from the settlers.
At the end of last month, dozens of settlers dressed in military attire stole 300 sheep and physically assaulted locals, also confiscating their cellphones and issuing death threats, Wafa reported.
Israeli military boasts about tens of thousands displaced from Jabalia
The Israeli military has released aerial footage showing the large-scale destruction of Jabalia in northern Gaza as it forced tens of thousands of Palestinians to flee amid an expanding siege and repeated threats for people to leave or face bombardment.
Civilians were seen fleeing the area in large numbers as tanks and blacked-out or destroyed buildings surrounded them.
The military boasted that another 20,000 more Palestinians are now forcibly displaced from the area, “despite the efforts of Hamas to prevent the citizens from evacuating the area”. It claimed that this signifies “the breaking of the Hamas siege on Jabalia”.
The Israeli army also claimed that it had arrested more than 150 Palestinian fighters in the area.
