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16-09-2024
TEL AVIV/ GAZA STRIP: Displaced Palestinians describe returning to what is now just rubble in eastern Gaza City, after Israeli forces withdrew from the area.
Israeli forces killed at least 26 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including five at another school-turned-shelter for war-displaced civilians in Gaza City.
Israel’s military ordered Palestinians to leave parts of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza as the Palestinian Foreign Ministry warned that the evacuations were a “prelude to the annexation of Gaza” for “settlement purposes”.
Hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv, calling on the government to sign a deal with Hamas and free the remaining captives held in Gaza.
At least 41,206 people have been killed and 95,337 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number of those killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is at least 1,139, while more than 200 people were taken captive.
Israeli forces conduct another attack in Gaza City
Media reports that at least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid targeting Salah al-Din Street in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood.
Earlier, an Israeli attack on a home in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood killed an elderly man and a girl, rescue workers said.
Netanyahu vows strong response to Houthi attack
As we’ve been reporting, the Houthi group said it carried out a “military operation targeting a military target” in Jaffa, using “a new hypersonic ballistic missile that succeeded in reaching its target”.
At a weekly cabinet meeting earlier today, Israel’s PM Netanyahu said that “we are exacting a heavy price for any attempt to harm us”.
He added that the current situation in northern Israel, along the border with Lebanon, “will not continue” and that he was determined to do everything possible to return northern evacuees to their homes.
Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been exchanging fire on the Israel-Lebanon border since the war on Gaza began about a year ago.
The fighting has killed dozens of people in Israel and hundreds in Lebanon, while displacing tens of thousands on both sides of the border.
Israeli opposition leader says Netanyahu dragging country into ‘endless war’
Israeli opposition leader Yair Golan has called Netanyahu’s governing coalition a “zero government” that is dragging the country to an “endless war”.
Meanwhile, a ballistic missile from Yemen fired by the Houthis landed near Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv.
In a statement, Golan, who heads the Labor Party, called on the Israelis to stage daily protests against the government.
“Only continuous popular pressure will bring down this government,” he added.
The opposition leader said Sunday’s missile attack was a “reminder of the right-wing government’s ongoing failure”.
“Instead of closing battlefronts, this zero government is pulling us into endless war, eternal internal conflict and an abyss.”
Attack reported in southern Lebanon
Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting the town of Odaisseh in the Marjayoun region has been hit with artillery and phosphorous shells.
The state media outlet reported that Israeli forces dropped leaflets over the town of Wazzani, also in southern Lebanon, calling on people to evacuate the area. (Int’l News Desk)
