Gaza City bombed as battles continue in Rafah
Hezbollah claims attack on Israeli army “spy equipment”
The Lebanese group says in a statement that it targeted the army’s “al-Malikiyah” site and achieved direct hits.
Separately, Isralei media has reported the sounding of air raid sirens in northern Israel, indicating the possible presence of rocket fire from Lebanon.
Israel, UN negotiates deployment of Starlink system in Gaza: Report
Israel and the United Nations are discussing the deployment of Elon Musk’s Space X Starlink system in Gaza to fully resume food distribution in the strip in security, three Israeli officials and one UN official told Axios.
According to the report, the UN asked to deploy the communications system at its headquarters in Gaza. But Israel is concerned that the communications system might get appropriated by Hamas who could coordinate attacks without being detected.
Israel asked the UN for guarantees about about the possibility to remotely disable the terminal in case it is stolen, the report added.
Stabbing attack a natural response to Israeli forces’ crimes, Hamas says
Hamas has said the stabbing attack in Karmiel was a natural reaction to “the crimes of the [Israeli] occupation and aggression against our people in Gaza and the West Bank”.
The attack, which occurred earlier today at a mall in northern Israel, seriously injured two people, Israeli authorities say.
Israeli captives attempted suicide, al-Quds Brigades says
Abu Hamza, spokesperson for the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, says a number of Israeli captives have attempted suicide.
He said in a statement this is due to frustration over the Israeli government’s neglect of their situation, and due to treatment by units in the brigades who are “depriving them of some of the privileges that were provided to them prior to the heinous Nuseirat crime committed by the criminal Nazi enemy army [Israel]”.
Last month Israeli forces killed more than 270 Palestinians in Nuseirat refugee camp during an operation to free four Israeli captives. Some 700 others were injured.
He said the decision to treat Israeli captives the same way that Palestinian prisoners are treated in Israeli prisons will remain in effect “as long as the [Israeli] government continues its unjust measures towards our people and our prisoners”.
Israeli forces kill man in raid on Jenin
A short while ago, soldiers began a raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where gunfire was reported.
Wafa news agency reports, citing the Palestinian Ministry of Health, that Israeli special forces have shot and killed one man during the raid, 23-year-old Nidal Ziyad al-Amer.
Medical and security sources told Wafa said that a unit of the army, in a civilian car with a Palestinian licence plate, entered the industrial zone of the city, where they opened fire towards al-Amer, killing him.
Israeli police arrest alleged mall attacker’s family members
We’ve been reporting on a stabbing attack that injured two people at a mall in the northern Israeli city of Karmiel.
Israeli police say they have identified the attacker, who they earlier reported was “neutralised”, as an Arab citizen of Israel from the town of Nahf.
Israeli media quoted the Karmiel police chief Yitzhak Abuhatzira as saying the members of the accused’s family have been arrested, including his mother, brother and sister.
The family members arrived at the scene of the attack and were blindfolded and arrested.
Lebanon calls for ending Israeli ‘genocide’ in Gaza
Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has called for ending Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.
“We are concerned with the ongoing genocide against the Palestinians, namely in Gaza, based on our Arab identity and national and humanitarian considerations,” Mikati said at an event in the capital, Beirut.
The Lebanese premier said the key to peace is resolving the Palestinian cause.
“The essence of peace is that the Palestinian people live on its land under a free and independent state,” he said. “It is in Palestine that the history of this region begins.”
Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli raid in Tyre, sources say
An Al Jazeera correspondent has quoted a security source as saying that a Hezbollah military commander has been killed in the Israeli raid on the Hosh area in Tyre, southern Lebanon.
Reuters and AFP news agencies have also quoted sources saying that a senior commander from Hezbollah had been killed.
“A Hezbollah commander responsible for one of three sectors in south Lebanon was killed” in an “Israeli strike on a car in Tyre”, the source told AFP, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media.
Israeli attack targets car in Lebanese city
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports the Israeli army attacked a car in south Lebanon’s largest city, Tyre.
It said ambulances rushed two people injured in the attack, which took place in the al-Hawsh area of Tyre, to hospital.
Israel arrests 20 in occupied West Bank: Palestinian Prisoner’s Society
Since Tuesday evening, Israeli forces have arrested at least 20 people in the occupied West Bank, including former prisoners, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says in a statement.
The arrests were mostly in the Hebron governorate, while the rest were in the governorates of Jenin, Qalqilya, Nablus, Ramallah, Jericho and Jerusalem, it said. The arrests were accompanied by widespread raids, abuse, severe beatings, as well as the destruction of homes.
The total number of arrests since October 7 has climbed to about 9,510. The total includes those who were arrested from homes and military checkpoints, those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure, and those who were held hostage.
Israel approved largest land grab in three decades: Watchdog
Peace Now, an anti-settlement watchdog, says Israeli authorities recently approved the seizure of 12.7 square kilometres (4.9 square miles) of land in the occupied West Bank – the largest appropriation in more than three decades.
Since the start of the year, Israel has declared 23.7 square kilometres (9.15 square miles) in the Palestinian territory as state land, it said.
“Today, it is clear to everyone that this conflict cannot be resolved without a political settlement that establishes a Palestinian state alongside Israel,” Peace Now said in a statement.
“Still, the Israeli government chooses to actually make it difficult and distance us from the possibility of peace and stopping the bloodshed.”
Rights groups say the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank is aimed at reshaping the demography of the territory earmarked for a future Palestinian state.
Far-right Israeli minister retweets post promoting Sinai occupation
Israel’s far-right Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu has retweeted a post promoting merchandise that calls for the occupation of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.
Israel returned the region following a peace agreement signed with Egypt in 1979.
The tweet calls for the purchasing of a shirt showing a map of Israel which includes the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Sinai.
“Take it on trips, dress all the children in it [soon there will also be sizes for little ones], put it on the car, let’s create awareness: The people demand an occupation! Occupation now!” read the original tweet promoted by Eliyahu.
37,953 Palestinians killed in Gaza since October 7: Health Ministry
The Strip’s Health Ministry says at least 37,953 Palestinians have been killed and 87,266 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7.
The ministry added that 28 Palestinians have been killed and 125 injured by Israeli forces in the past 24 hours, and that a number of victims are still trapped under rubble or are located on roads where ambulance and civil defence crews cannot reach them.
Two women killed in Israeli attack on Nuseirat
Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that two women were killed after the Israeli army bombed the central Gaza Strip refugee camp.
Local sources told Wafa that the killings occurred after army warplanes attacked a residential apartment in the camp.
