20-10-2024
JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT/ GAZA STRIP: Israeli PM’s office says Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, hit by a Hezbollah drone.
At least 44 Palestinians killed and more than 80 wounded in Israeli strike on northern Gaza’s Jabalia and Maghazi refugee camps.
Israeli forces target al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals in northern Gaza.
Hamas remains defiant after the killing of Yahya Sinwar, saying Israeli captives will not be released “unless the aggression on Gaza stops”, Israeli forces completely withdraw and Palestinian prisoners held in Israel are freed.
In Gaza, at least 42,519 people have been killed and 99,637 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Hamas’s attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
“One confirmed death in this 100 rocket attack…covering an area that spans from northern Israel all the way to Haifa and the Bay of Haifa, where hundreds of thousands of residents live,” she said from Amman, Jordan, because Al Jazeera has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Hezbollah says it carried out attacks on Safad, Philon base in Rosh Pina, east of Safad, Krayot, north of Haifa, Shlomi settlement, Al-Bassa settlement, Military base in Nesher, Settlement of Kiryat Shmona, a group of Israeli soldiers at the al-Marj site and in the settlement of Zarit.
Israel said a Hezbollah drone also hit Netanyahu’s residence in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv.
According to an int’l news agency, a drone launched from Lebanon hit Netanyahu’s residence in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv.
Israeli security services see the drone attack in Caesarea as a very serious security failure and an investigation has been launched.
Eleven people have been killed in an attack by Israel’s military on a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.
Lebanese authorities say at least two people were killed in an Israeli strike in Jounieh, north of the capital Beirut.
Hezbollah says it hit an Israeli military base in northern Israel.
Meanwhile, at least 42,519 people have been killed and 99,637 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.
Of those, 19 Palestinians were killed and 91 wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry added.
Live footage shows smoke billowing from Shlomi, a town in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon.
We earlier reported that Hezbollah fired rockets towards an Israeli military base north of Haifa. Israel said a drone also hit Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea.
An Israeli attack on a school in Shati camp housing displaced Palestinians has killed and wounded many people.
The Palestinian Civil Defence confirmed the attack and said it was on the UNRWA-affiliated Asmaa School.
Reoprter on the ground are reporting that the Israeli army is advancing from the east of Jabalia as it continues its deadly siege of northern Gaza which is now in its third week.
Hundreds of families had to flee as the Israeli army intensified its bombing on the residential areas while two patients died in the ICU of the Indonesian Hospital after Israeli forces besieged it and destroyed the generator.
Hezbollah has now said it fired rockets towards an Israeli military base north of Israel’s Haifa in response to Israeli attacks on its strongholds in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)