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17-11-2024
BEIRUT: The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has deplored the Israeli strike on a Lebanese civil defence centre where “at least 12 paramedics were killed”, saying such attacks “are becoming the new normal”.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said that Israeli attacks killed 59 people and wounded another 182 across the country over the previous 24-hour reporting period.
Israel’s siege of northern Gaza continues as the territory’s Health Ministry reports that 28 Palestinians were killed and 120 injured in the past day.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,764 Palestinians and wounded 103,490 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
In Lebanon, at least 3,445 people have been killed and 14,599 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara has highlighted the apparent admiration the incoming US Middle East envoy Steven Witkoff holds for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Bishara said Witkoff’s enthusiasm was evident during Netanyahu’s address to Congress in July, where he “couldn’t even sit still for five seconds” due to his continuous applause.
Bishara suggests that such open reverence for Netanyahu raises questions about the envoy’s ability to maintain neutrality, objectivity and credibility in shaping American policy on Israel-Palestine.
Iran will support Lebanon in any decision it takes to secure a ceasefire with Israel, a senior Iranian government official has said.
Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, arrived in Lebanon on Friday and has met with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Lebanon’s parliament speaker, Nabih Berri.
On Thursday, the US ambassador to Lebanon, Lisa Johnson, presented a draft ceasefire proposal to Berri, who is endorsed by Hezbollah to negotiate, two senior Lebanese political sources told the Reuters news agency.
When asked by reporters if he had come to Lebanon to undermine Washington’s ceasefire efforts, Larijani said: “We are not looking to sabotage anything. We are after a solution to the problems.”
“We support in all circumstances the Lebanese government. Those who are disrupting are (Prime Minister) Netanyahu and his people,” he added.
The Israeli military has conducted a series of air strikes in a very intense period of time across many areas. Not only in the central area of Gaza but the main focus has been pretty much the north of the Strip.
Families feel incredibly trapped in light of a clear deterioration in their humanitarian conditions, and we know that hospitals are incredibly overwhelmed with wounded people who have been getting treatment over the past 24 hours resulting from Israeli air strikes and artillery bombardments.
We know from eyewitnesses that confrontations in Beit Lahiya town and Jabalia are still raging between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces.
The situation is similar in Rafah city in the far south of the Strip where images and witnesses indicate very wide-scale destruction and operations being conducted in all areas that are close to the Netzarim Corridor as part of the Israeli military campaign there.
Everything has been turned upside down in (Rafah) city and with no sort of respite on the ground yet. (Al Jazeera)
