Israel kills dozens in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria; US defends UNSC veto
- Israeli forces pound northern Gaza, killing 88 Palestinians in two waves of attacks on Beit Lahiya and the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.
- The US Senate rejects a bid to block arms shipments to Israel shortly after Washington vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
All That Remains
Leyan Abu al-Atta, a 13-year-old girl from Gaza who lost her leg in an Israeli attack, is one of thousands of children who have lost limbs in this war in what experts say is likely one of the most intense mass-disabling events of children in our lifetimes.
Fault Lines follows Leyan’s journey as she makes her way to the US for medical treatment in the hopes of overcoming a spinal cord injury and walking again on prosthetic legs.
Along the way, we witness Leyan’s perseverance, her family’s unwavering love in the wake of her life-changing injury and an intimate portrait of what lies ahead for the child amputees of Gaza.
Gaza suffers through ‘incredibly bloody night’
The Israeli army targeted numerous residential buildings across many areas of the Gaza Strip. In the north, it flattened a number of residential buildings near Kamal Adwan Hospital. As far as we know, 66 Palestinians have been killed and there are more than 100 others wounded, with many still stuck under the rubble. We know the buildings were housing lots of civilians.
Gaza City, where civilians from the north have been fleeing to, was also targeted. A multistorey building belonging to a family in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood was reduced to rubble. At least 22 Palestinians have been confirmed killed.
Also here in central Gaza, as well as in southern Gaza, air strikes have intensified. In a school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp, seven were killed.
I was in the morgue of Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Hospital today and I saw two women, three children and two other men killed. The morgue is overwhelmed. In the al-Mawasi area, there have been more attacks as well, hitting some makeshift tents.
It has been an incredibly bloody night. The Israeli army is determined to press on with its military offensive. The place has turned into a landscape of rubble, no longer recognisable, as human misery compounds.
Israeli army names soldier killed in southern Lebanon
The Israeli army says 20-year-old Sergeant Gur Kehati, from the Nir Banim settlement in central Israel, has been killed in combat in southern Lebanon. The Israeli soldier served in the 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade.
According to Haaretz and other Israeli newspapers, a 71-year-old Israeli civilian who accompanied troops into southern Lebanon “in violation of orders” was also killed on Wednesday.
According to the army, 803 soldiers, officers, and reservists have been killed in more than a year of Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Of these, more than 304 were killed during Hamas’s attack on October 7 last year.
Israel orders evacuation of three villages in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district
Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee says the residents of the Burj Shemali, Maashouq and al-Haush villages in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district must flee their homes immediately and move to the north of the Awali River.
He said in a statement on X that the Israeli army was planning to hit the areas.
Israel charges three Palestinians over alleged plot to kill Ben-Gvir: Reports
Israeli authorities have filed charges against three Palestinians who allegedly planned to assassinate Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, according to Israeli media reports.
A joint statement by Israel’s police and Shin Bet security service claimed the trio from the occupied West Bank’s Hebron city sought assistance from Gaza’s Hamas armed group and Lebanon’s Hezbollah in orchestrating the plot, according to The Times of Israel newspaper.
The accused monitored Ben-Gvir and his sons, who reside in the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, according to the statement.
In April, Shin Bet said it had thwarted a cell plotting to wage attacks in Israel and the West Bank, including one to assassinate Ben-Gvir.
