‘Relentless artillery shelling’ in Khan Younis
- The Israeli army says it has hit 200 targets in Gaza from air, land and sea within the past 24 hours.
- Large numbers of residential homes in Khan Younis have been destroyed in overnight Israeli army attacks.
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Southern Lebanon feels like a ‘war zone’ amid daily Israeli attacks
- This is the first time Bint Jbeil has been hit since 2006. But seven other southern Lebanese towns are being hit on a daily basis by Israeli warplanes.
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Eight hospitals in south Gaza ‘partially’ functioning: Minister
Speaking to Dubai-based news outlet Al-Arabiya late Tuesday, Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila has said only 8 hospitals are partially operating in the southern Gaza Strip.
Last week, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) decried the “decimation” of Gaza’s health system calling it a “tragedy”.
Hezbollah fighter, two relatives killed in Israeli strike on Bint Jbeil
A Hezbollah fighter was among the three people killed in an Israeli strike on the town of Bint Jbeil late last night, Hezbollah has announced.
The other two victims were the fighter’s brother and sister-in-law, according to Lebanese state media.
The fighter’s brother, named as Ibrahim Bazzi, had arrived in Lebanon just days ago from Australia, where he had lived for years. He had returned to reunite with his wife and travel back with her to Australia.
The strike that killed the family members also wounded another one of their relatives, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
Key events on day 82 of the war
It’s day 82 of the war, and this is where things stand:
- At least 241 people have been killed and 382 were injured in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry has said
- The Government Media Office in Gaza says bodies had been delivered “mutilated” and accused the Israelis of removing “vital organs from them”.
- Six Palestinians have been killed during Israeli drone attacks in Nur Shams in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reported.
- Palestine’s representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, wrote to the president of the UNSC that Israel’s attacks have only intensified since the UN resolution passed.
- Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer reportedly met with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Washington, where they discussed the remaining captives.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard vows revenge for commander’s assassination
The spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Ramazan Sharif, has vowed to take revenge for the killing of IRGC commander Sayyed Razi Mousavi in Syria on Monday.
He said that Mousavi’s assassination broke international laws as he was an advisor of a country that is a UN member and called on all international institutions to condemn the strikes.
Sharif said the reason that Israel decided to assassinate Mousavi now is due to the success of Hamas’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7 and Israel’s failure to defeat “the resistance” in more than 80 days of war.
Israel gives initial approval for Cyprus-Gaza sea corridor: Report
Israel has agreed “in principle” to allow Cyprus, with the support of Britain, to open up a humanitarian sea corridor into Gaza, reports Israel’s Hayom newspaper.
The corridor would bring more supplies and equipment into the besieged Palestinian enclave, which has so far relied only on the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, and recently, the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing by Israel.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen relayed the initial approval for the corridor to his counterparts in Cyprus and the UK on Tuesday, saying it could likely begin operating “upon completion of the required preparations”, according to Hayom.
