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13-10-2024
GAZA STRIP/ JERUSALEM: Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defence agency says 30 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, according to media.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry estimates at least 42,175 people in Gaza have been killed since 7 October last year.
Meanwhile, world leaders have condemned attacks on United Nations peacekeepers by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, after a second incident within 48 hours.
In Israel, the IDF says it has intercepted a number of launches from Lebanon, and earlier reported that two drones were detected from Lebanon and another from Syria.
Lebanon’s prime minister says 22 people were killed in two Israeli attacks in central Beirut on Thursday, which came with no warning, and were all civilians.
Hezbollah has issued a warning to Israelis to stay away from military sites in northern Israel, in order to preserve their lives.
The statement says the Israeli army placed its bases inside residential areas in the north, which it said were targets for its missiles and drones.
Hezbollah has fired daily salvoes of rockets into northern Israel.
The Israeli air strikes over the past three weeks in Lebanon are believed to have killed dozens of Hezbollah leaders, and since then, the group’s public statements have been sparse.
This warning to Israelis that they should stay away from army bases in northern cities may be intended to remind them and Hezbollah’s supporters that it still has the capacity to inflict significant damage.
It echoes Israeli accusations against Hezbollah that it conceals its fighters and weapons in civilian areas.
Hezbollah also warned that Israel had seen only a few of its strikes yet. It is not clear yet how much of their arsenal has been destroyed by recent Israeli attacks.
Hezbollah says it launched a “barrage” of rockets towards Israel, aimed at a military site to the south of Haifa in northern Israel.
It says the attack was in the early hours of the morning, at approximately 06:00 local time, according to a statement on Telegram.
There has been no specific mention of Haifa from the IDF so far this morning.
Al-Qassam Brigades, a military wing of Hamas, says it has attacked two Israeli Merkava tanks and a bulldozer in the Al Janina neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip, in a post on Telegram.
In southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it continues to “target Hezbollah positions”. IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee issues a message to residents to not return to their homes “until further notice” and that anyone travelling south could be endangering their lives.
Adraee says the IDF will inform people when it’s “safe” to return.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has called on Palestinians in the “D5” area in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate “immediately”.
In a post on X, external, IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee says the designated area is considered a “dangerous combat zone” and calls for an immediate evacuation via Salah al-Din Street.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says, external 49 people have been killed and 219 others injured in five Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.
It adds rescue operations continue, and that people are still under rubble. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
