At least 55 people killed in Gaza as Israel resumes raids on Beirut
Israeli strike levels building in southern Lebanon’s Tyre city
The air attack levelled the building on the city’s seafront, where rescuers and paramedics were seen pulling people from under the rubble, the AFP news agency reports.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said two buildings were targeted in one raid near Imam Hussein Mosque in Tyre’s Raml neighbourhood.
At least three killed in Israeli attack near Gaza City’s Firas market
At least three people have been killed and a number of others injured in an Israeli bombardment in the vicinity of the Firas market in Gaza City, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
They quoted local sources as saying that journalist Bilal Rajab was among the dead.
At least 11 more people killed in eastern Lebanon
Israeli air attack targeted a family home with about 20 people in it in the centre of eastern Lebanon’s Younine town, according to the country’s National News Agency (NNA).
Seven bodies have already been recovered, and the process of removing the rubble is still continuing, the report said.
About five kilometres (three miles) away, Israeli warplanes also hit a house in the village of Nahle, killing at least four people.
Israeli attacks on Lebanon’s healthcare adding to ‘misery’ of war: WHO
At least 132 healthcare workers have been killed in Lebanon while on duty, a clear violation of international law, according to Margaret Harris, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization.
“They go to work every day to save lives. They do not go to work to lose their lives, but they have been caught up in a conflict where there seems to be no concern about attacking health facilities,” Harris told Al Jazeera, speaking from Hong Kong. “It’s very clear, under international humanitarian law, healthcare is not a target.”
The Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon is reporting much higher numbers of losses of healthcare workers because many of the health workers have been killed or injured while at home, or going to and from work, she added.
“This was a healthcare system that couldn’t afford to lose one healthcare worker. They didn’t have enough healthcare workers before this conflict began, the economic circumstances meant that they were very much underserved, and it was a healthcare system that was struggling,” the WHO spokesperson said.
“And now they’ve got mass casualties. They’ve got mass needs. There’s overwhelming displacement. There’s increasing risk of outbreaks. We’ve got cholera … the attacks on healthcare are adding to the misery.”
At least 14 killed in Israeli attacks on central Gaza’s Nuseirat
As I’m talking, I can hear a huge explosion just taking place in the Nuseirat refugee camp, which is eight kilometres (about 5 miles) away from Deir el-Balah, where we are right now.
According to medical officials in al-Awda Hospital, at least 14 Palestinians have been killed since the early hours of this morning in just the Nuseirat refugee camp alone. At least 70 others were also wounded.
The area is witnessing huge Israeli attacks from naval warships alongside Israeli ground forces.
People are arriving to the hospital in carts pulled by animals, because it’s quite hard for civil defence and front-line emergency workers to reach the area, as Israeli military drones are actively operating there.
At least 12 killed in Israeli air strike on eastern Lebanon’s Amhaz town
Israel has launched an air strike on a house in the town of Amhaz, north of the Baalbek city in eastern Lebanon, according to the footage verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad.
The footage showed moments of the arrival of an ambulance at the targeted location in the town amid heavy smoke rising into the sky in the area.
The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported that the Israeli air strike killed at least 12 people.
Hezbollah claims to have bombed Israel’s Karmiel, Maalot-Tarshiha cities
The Lebanese armed group says its fighters have bombed Karmiel, a city in northern Israel, “with a salvo of rockets”.
It also claimed to have struck the Ma’alot-Tarshiha city, also in the north.
As Trump, Harris woo Arab Americans, Michigan mayor readies to up pressure
Abdullah Hammoud was pacing across his office, having an animated phone conversation about former President Bill Clinton’s claim that Hamas “forces” Israel to kill Palestinian civilians.
By the time the mayor of the Detroit suburb of Dearborn sat down for an interview, he had shaken off the anger – at least on the surface.
Hammoud, 34, appeared clear-eyed about the future of the city known as the capital of Arab America and the way forward for its bereaved community amid Israel’s war on Gaza and Lebanon.
“There’s a blanket of grief that has just covered this community, and people are just trying to manage, obviously, amidst the entirety of the presidential election with the backdrop of a genocide, the war in Lebanon, the bombing in Yemen and so on,” Hammoud told Al Jazeera.
Polio vaccinations to resume in northern Gaza on Saturday: WHO chief
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, says that the second round of child polio vaccinations in northern Gaza will begin on Saturday, after Israeli bombing in the area halted the drive.
“Polio vaccination in northern Gaza is ready to resume tomorrow,” he said on X, adding: “We are assured of the necessary humanitarian pause in Gaza City to conduct the campaign.”
