At least 55 killed in Gaza; Israel resumes raids across Lebanon
- Israeli air strikes kill at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon while capital Beirut hit by more than 10 deadly Israeli air raids overnight.
- At least 55 people were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
Medics evacuate patients from northern Gaza hospitals
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it is evacuating patients from al-Awda and Indonesian hospitals in northern Gaza amid an the ongoing Israeli siege.
The Palestinian group evacuated 21 patients in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross, it said on X.
The UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee earlier warned that the situation in northern Gaza is “apocalyptic” and that its entire population is “at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence”.
Several casualties in Israeli strike on Jabalia
Several people have been killed and wounded in an Israeli strike on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
The bombing took place in the Tall az-Zaatar area of the camp, our colleagues on the ground reported.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency said Israeli air strikes also targeted al-Rafei School, which shelters displaced people in the town of Jabalia, killing several people.
Three killed by Israeli bombardment in Nuseirat
Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that at least three people, including two children, were killed and many others wounded in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house north of the Nuseirat camp.
Potential for ceasefire in Lebanon looking increasingly weak
There seems to have been an escalation from Israel, targeting different towns in the Bekaa Valley.
This is at the fourth day we have seen heavy strikes in this area of eastern Lebanon. Sixteen different towns have been targeted according to some sources.
There have also been strikes on the port city of Tyre and no warnings were given.
The potential for a ceasefire is looking increasingly weak. We don’t expect to see anything concrete in terms of a proposal before the US election on November 5.
‘Journalists in Gaza killed at level unseen by any conflict in modern times’
As we just reported, at least 183 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza since October last year.
The UN will observe Saturday as the International Day to End Impunity for crimes against journalists, according to the UN chief’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.
“In his message for the day, the secretary general underscores that a free press is fundamental to human rights, to democracy and to the rule of law,” Dujarric said.
“Recent years have seen an alarming rate of fatalities in conflict zones, particularly in Gaza, which has seen the highest number of killings of journalists and media workers in a war in decades. In his message, he warned that journalists in Gaza have been killed at a level unseen by any conflict in modern times.
“The ongoing ban preventing international journalists from Gaza suffocates the truth even further,” he said.
Another Palestinian journalist killed in Israeli strike on Gaza City
Gaza media office has confirmed journalist Bilal Rajab, of al-Quds al-Youm TV channel, was killed in an Israeli bombardment in the Strip.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic earlier reported that a strike in the vicinity of the Firas market in Gaza City had killed three people, among whom local sources said was Rajab.
The office said the total number of journalists and media workers who have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, now stands at 183.
It called on the international community to intervene to stop the killing of Palestinian journalists reporting on the war in Gaza, which is the deadliest conflict for media workers.
