Israeli attack on Gaza school kills at least 17, including children
- At least 17 Palestinians were killed, including an 11-month-old baby, and 32 wounded in an Israeli attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza’s Nuseirat camp.
- Lebanon’s Health Ministry said at least one person was killed and five wounded as Israel carried out more than 17 attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight, levelling six buildings in raids that began without warning.
EU’s top diplomat calls for reinforcement of UNIFIL, Lebanese army
The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has called for an immediate reinforcement of Lebanon’s army and the UN peacekeeping mission in the country (UNIFIL) amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
“We know who is attacking UNIFIL. I’ve been watching videos where it’s clear that Israeli Defense Forces are attacking UNIFIL, and it is completely unacceptable,” he told reporters during an aid conference for Lebanon in Paris.
Calling for stronger international support for the peacekeeping mission, he also called for urgent support for the Lebanese army.
“The Lebanese army has to be reinforced, and once there is a cease-fire, the Lebanese army has to deploy in the south,” he said.
Gaza war ‘significant issue’ in Michigan ahead of US presidential election
The war in Gaza has certainly had an impact on the US presidential campaign. It has become a very significant issue, perhaps the number one issue in the swing state of Michigan, which is home to a large number of Arab Americans.
Many of them have been quite disgusted with the Biden-Harris’ administration’s response to the war and to its ability or inability, some would argue, to curb Israel’s conduct of the war on the people in Gaza.
Certainly while there is a private hope among some US officials that this could all be wrapped up, if for no other reason than to end the suffering of the people in Gaza, as well as restore security for the people of Israel.
There is also a recognition in the political realm here in the United States, that the conflict in the region is having an impact on the US presidential election.
Dozens killed in Gaza since morning: Medical sources
At least 34 people have been killed in the coastal enclave since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.
Twenty-seven of them were killed in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip.
Israel is ‘putting numbers on men’ in northern Gaza
The situation is very hard in northern Gaza and also here in the south.
We just received news that at least one Palestinian was killed and 16 others were completely severely burned after a target in the Maghazi refugee camp. And most of these Palestinians do not have any creams or any medicine to treat their burns.
In the northern Gaza Strip, we’re talking about 20 days of an imposed siege.
No food, no water, no civil defence teams, no ambulances, no paramedics.
The Israeli forces are literally forcing people to leave their houses, to leave their shelters, and also separating families from one another.
They’re putting numbers on men. They’re putting numbers on people and interrogating them.
Israel has also been digging holes and putting people inside those holes and grouping them into 10.
After midnight, the Israeli forces also targeted civil defence teams and also forced them to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip. The situation in the north is miserable.
US optimism on a Gaza ceasefire is something we have heard many times before
This comprehensive dialogue has been happening during 11 regional tours by Blinken, and he’s concluding this trip after going to Israel and Saudi Arabia, also having conversations with the Jordanian foreign minister.
If you read the room, it feels that there is a new impetus. But is it an impetus from an outgoing administration that has only a few weeks left, or is there something more in the cards?
There are two important things being discussed here.
One is a potential attack by Israel on Iran and how the region will evolve from it. And also, what is happening on the ground in Gaza.
As we’ve heard multiple times before, we saw a positive tone from the meetings in Qatar. But what’s happening on the ground in Gaza is contradictory to what Secretary Blinken has been discussing with his Israeli counterparts.
This is where they have different ideas compared to Qatar, because the Qataris, and the Arabs in general, have been insisting on getting aid and a ceasefire being achieved.
Israeli military says 5 rockets intercepted as Hezbollah reports ground fighting
The Israeli military says its air force successfully intercepted five rockets launched by Hezbollah towards the upper and central Galilee in northern Israel.
Hezbollah said its latest rocket salvo targeted the settlement of Karmiel.
The armed Lebanese group also reported more ground fighting with invading Israeli forces, saying it hit soldiers as they were advancing near Odaisseh with bullets and rockets, “forcing them to retreat”.
