Israel bombs Lebanon 145 times in a day, over a dozen killed in Gaza
- Israeli forces continue to pound Beirut’s Dahiyeh as Lebanese authorities report 145 Israeli attacks across the country over the past day.
- In Gaza, Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinians in predawn attacks on Rafah and the Bureij refugee camp, while in the occupied West Bank, masked Israeli settlers stormed the village of Beit Furik and set fire to Palestinian homes and vehicles.
Funeral taking place for 17 Palestinians killed in central Gaza
We also hear a continuous shelling, explosions and Israeli airplanes above the central area.
And to make matters worse, the health situation and humanitarian situation is not getting any better. People are struggling to find food, to get access to medicine and clean drinking water.
Israeli air strikes expected in Haret Hreik any time now
Earlier there were at least three airstrikes that hit several areas within the suburb, Burj al-Barajneh, near Ein El Remmaneh and also Hadath.
The local authorities, the churches are trying to draw people’s attention to these warnings. Church bells are ringing, gunshots are heard in different neighbourhoods whenever there are warnings, to ask people to leave the area.
Over the past weeks, many families decided to return to their homes after weeks of displacement living in schools, government facilities, but this is also causing some casualties, some deaths.
There is also a diplomatic channel that is open. We are expecting within the coming days, the US envoy to come to Beirut and then to go to Tel Aviv in an attempt to find a way to come out of this situation – a settlement, a deal.
The Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri is the one negotiating on behalf of Hezbollah with the Americans who are already in touch with the Israelis.
Israel, Hezbollah engaging in ‘propaganda’
Marc Owen Jones, an associate professor of media analytics at Northwestern University Qatar, says Israel and Hezbollah are both engaging in “propaganda” and providing “false information” to the media as a war tactic.
“Hezbollah will not want to reveal the extent or the impact of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon, because this would be demoralising,” Jones told Al Jazeera, adding that Israel has been engaging in a similar strategy to “exaggerate their successes”.
“But if you’re seen to be a dishonest broker, then people won’t necessarily think you are a legitimate actor,” he said.
“It’s really deceiving the people at large and the population by not giving them the full facts, the full picture that they are entitled to.”
Health Ministry: ’30 percent of victims in Beit Lahiya massacre are children’
Gaza Health Ministry’s Director-General Munir al-Bursh has given Al Jazeera an update on the latest developments:
- Israeli forces deliberately bomb civilians late at night so that no one could save them, al-Bursh said.
- Yesterday, Israelis prevented the entry of a UN humanitarian convoy carrying medicines to Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
- Almost 30 percent of the victims of the Beit Lahiya massacre today are children.
- There are between 20 and 30 people under the rubble in Beit Lahiya who cannot be reached.
- More than 12,000 wounded people are in urgent need of treatment abroad, but Israeli forces are preventing them from travelling.
- They deliberately target doctors, even while they are in their homes, to prevent them from providing their services.
Israeli army orders evacuation from Beirut’s Haret Hreik
Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee has ordered residents residing in Beirut’s southern suburbs, specifically in certain buildings in Haret Hreik, to evacuate, adding without evidence that the area hosts “Hezbollah facilities and interests”.
These are just the latest in a series of evacuation orders issued by the Israeli army in areas of southern Beirut this morning. Strikes typically follow the issuance of these orders.
CAIR slams ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden over inaction in Gaza
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, has condemned the US president’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
CAIR said in a statement: “While the world witnesses daily atrocities by Israel in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon, ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden remains silent as the far-fight Netanyahu government uses American weapons and his administration’s support to slaughter civilians, destroy their homes and force their children to starve.
CAIR said its statement follows reports from Gaza of “dogs feeding on corpses, a prominent Palestinian doctor tortured to death in an Israeli prison, the killing of a Palestinian journalist in an Israeli drone attack, the Israeli burning of a Gaza school storing aid supplies, an Israeli massacre at a school in Gaza, illegal Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian homes, and Israeli field executions in northern Gaza”.
More on Israeli attacks on Beirut
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli jets destroyed a 12-storey residential building in Chiyah in Dahiyeh, shortly after issuing more forced evacuation orders for the area.
NNA also reported “violent” Israeli raids on the neighbourhoods of Burj al-Barajneh and Hadath. The attack on Hadath hit near the vicinity of Saint George Hospital, it said.
As we’ve been reporting, Israel’s military has ramped up attacks on Beirut and southern Lebanon, carrying out 145 attacks on the country on Saturday.
Gaza Civil Defense: ‘We are unable to help the people of Beit Lahiya’
Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Gaza rescue organisation, says it cannot reach the site of an attack on Beit Lahiya, north Gaza.
“The department received appeals from residents of a house bombed by the Israeli occupation in Beit Lahiya, but we cannot move to rescue them,” he said.
Two bombs hit a five-storey residential tower in the northern Gaza city, killing “tens” of people, according to medics.
‘Tens’ killed in Israeli strike on Beit Lahiya
Our correspondent on the ground in Gaza, Hani Mahmoud, is reporting that the attack we reported earlier on the area in north Gaza hit a five-storey residential building hosting about 100 internally displaced Palestinians.
Witnesses told Al Jazeera that many people were killed, and medics told Reuters that “tens” of people were killed and wounded.
The number of dead remains unclear because an insufficient number of paramedics were able to reach the site of the attack, Mahmoud said.
Israeli forces target central and northern Gaza, killing dozens
In the central area, the explosions did not stop. There are explosions happening in the background and in the Nuseirat and Bureij areas.
Here where we are at Al-Aqsa Hospital, there are 17 killed Palestinians in the morgue; they’re waiting for coffins to bury them, but there is a shortage of coffins across the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli forces targeted a house in Nuseirat, where at least six Palestinians were killed, among them are four women and a child.
According to civil defence teams, there are members of the same family still trapped under the rubble.
Israeli forces targeted another house in Bureij, where at least 10 Palestinians were killed. The families say there are more family members trapped under the rubble.
There was another air strike in Beit Lahiya. According to medical sources, 15 Palestinians have been killed, dozens are wounded.
Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoon, and Jabalia have been besieged for more than 40 days, without food, water, medicine or aid, and under constant bombing, shelling and Israeli drones and quadcopters.
South Beirut hit after Israeli army threat
The strike hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, footage shared by AFP shows.
Earlier, we reported the newest evacuation orders from the Israeli army for the southern suburbs, known as Dahiyeh.
AFP images showed a column of smoke rising over the suburbs, already veiled in smoke from the previous day’s bombardment.
We will bring you more as information comes in.
Israel kills 5 in central Gaza
Our team on the ground in the Gaza Strip reports that five people were killed, including a child, in an overnight Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Many others were “critically wounded” following the air attack on the residential building of the Abu Armana family, our correspondent says.
