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07-10-2024
GAZA STRIP: It has been one year of what UN experts have called Israel’s genocide in Gaza: 365 days of unrelenting Israeli bombardment, resulting in one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century.
This has been a war of many firsts, breaking records in scale and brutality.
Marking the one-year anniversary of the conflict, media brings you special coverage of the violence and devastation it’s brought to the youngest and the most vulnerable people in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah launches a damaging attack on the Israeli port city of Haifa for the first time after firing dozens of rockets into northern Israel. At least 10 people were wounded in Haifa, according to Israeli media.
Large explosions rocked southern Beirut for another night as Israeli forces continued to pound the Lebanese capital. Dozens of Lebanese were killed and wounded in Israeli attacks over the past day.
At least nine Palestinian children were among 17 people killed after the Israeli military ordered civilians to immediately flee northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp and began heavy bombardment.
In Gaza, at least 41,870 people have been killed and 97,166 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 2023. In Israel, at least 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 people were taken captive.
Five Hezbollah rockets have struck the port city of Haifa, injuring at least 10 people, as the crucial northern Israeli industrial centre is hit for the first time.
Hezbollah rockets also struck the northern Israeli city of Tiberias, injuring one person, while alerts were activated in the Upper Galilee area after 15 rockets were detected.
The Israeli military’s assault on the southern suburbs of Beirut continued, as it issued fresh evacuation orders in areas of the capital before carrying out two air strikes.
Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has said the Lebanese army is prepared to bolster its presence in the south and enforce a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi has said many of Israel’s air strikes on Lebanon have violated international humanitarian law by hitting civilians and humanitarian operations. Iran has announced the resumption of flights from some airports it put restrictions on earlier today, after saying the move was due to “operational limitations”, without elaborating.
Israel’s assault on Gaza has continued, including in the Jabalia refugee camp, where at least nine children were among 17 people killed in the latest devastating Israeli attack on the besieged enclave.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health has said that at least 12 people were killed, including several children, as a result of two Israeli air raids on towns south of Beirut.
More than 20 people were also injured in Sunday’s strikes, which hit the towns of Qmatiyeh and Kayfoun in the Mount Lebanon district.
The Ministry of Health did not provide a breakdown of the casualties, but we previously reported that at least four people were killed and 10 wounded following the strike in Kayfoun.
An Israeli man said he heard a loud “boom” in his neighborhood in the port city of Haifa before learning on the radio that there had been an attack in his area.
“I went straight away. First in the beginning we didn’t find any injuries, and then I saw [that building]”, the unidentified man said in video testimony, pointing to a structure that appeared to have blown out windows.
“I went inside, and I found four people injured, between minor to moderate,” he said. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
