Israeli strikes killed dozens of people on Sunday, including children, in isolated parts of Lebanon and the north Gazaas the world sees signs that the US election may have an impact Wars between Israel and Iranian-backed militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has spoken three times Donald Trump after Tuesday’s election and “see eye to eye the Iranian threat and all its components.” Israeli President Isaac Herzog is scheduled to meet with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday.
An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon killed at least 23 people, including seven children, in the town of Aalmat, north of Beirut, far from the eastern and southern areas where Hezbollah has a strong presence. There was no warning for the evacuation of Israel. Israel’s military said it hit a Hezbollah site used to store weapons, and was reviewing the strike.
Hezbollah began firing rockets, drones and missiles into Israel after the war broke out in Gaza, in solidarity with the Palestinians and Hamas. Israel retaliated, and a series of escalations has led to full-scale war.
In northern Gaza, a strike by Israelis protecting displaced people in the Jabaliya refugee camp killed at least 17 people, including nine women, according to Dr. Fadel Naim, director of Gaza City’s Al-Ahly Hospital.
The Israeli army said it hit a site where militants were working, without providing evidence. He said the details of the strike were being reviewed.
Another strike hit a house in Gaza City, killing Wael al-Khour, a minister in the Hamas-led government, as well as his wife and three children, according to first responders from the government-affiliated Civil Defense.
Israel strikes deeper in Lebanon
Israel has penetrated deeper into Lebanon since September, then He killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and most of its principal leaders. Hezbollah has deployed rockets from northern to central Israel. The fighting has killed more than 3,100 people in Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry, and more than 70 people in Israel.
In Aalmat, Israel, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Beirut, lawmaker Raed Berro denied that any Hezbollah personnel or assets were in the building that was hit.
“Everyone can see, in front of the cameras, that what emerges from under the ruins are women, children and the elderly who have nothing to do with weapons or rocket depots,” said Berro.
Hassan Ghaddaf, who lived next door and was lightly wounded on his balcony for his morning coffee, said the displaced were in the building.
“I saw and recognized them the other day,” Ghaddafi said. “They were calm. On the contrary, they had someone from the Lebanese Internal Security Forces who works for the state, and we saw their uniforms and clothes among the debris.’
In Syria, an Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in the Sayyida Zeinab neighborhood of Damascus, and the Defense Ministry said seven civilians were killed, state news agency SANA reported. Britain’s opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights suggested Hezbollah was the target. Israel had no immediate comment.
Fear of famine in northern Gaza
The middle of the month the deadline is approaching Because of the ultimatum given to Israel by the Biden administration: give more aid to Gaza or Risk potential cuts to US military funding.
Israeli forces have surrounded and isolated Jabaliya and the nearby towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza for the past month, allowing just a drop of humanitarian aid. Experts from a panel that monitors food safety say famine is near or is already happening.
The northern third of Gaza, including Gaza City, has suffered the worst destruction of the 13-month war. Israel he has sent his forces backSaying that Hamas has reunited.
Israeli strikes often kill women and children. The military says it only targets militants, and accuses them of hiding among civilians.
Also on Sunday, the Israeli military released footage of Hamas detainees being mistreated. The silent footage, which dates from 2018 to 2020, appears to show hooded detainees shackled in stressful positions. In some clips, men beat or punch her with sticks. The videos could not be independently verified, and the military said they recovered them during operations in Gaza.
Rights groups they have complained a long time ago Hamas has been abusing detainees and brutally suppressing dissent in the West Bank occupied by the Gaza government and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority. Israel has been accused of similar abusesespecially since the war started. Israeli prison authorities say they are following the relevant laws and investigating allegations of wrongdoing.
The toll of war
The Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants stormed southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250. About 100 hostages are still inside Gazaabout a third are believed to be dead.
Israel’s offensive has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, who do not distinguish between civilians and militants in their counts, but say more than half of the dead were women and children.
Israeli bombings and ground invasions Vast areas of Gaza have been left in ruins and displaced about 90% of the population of 2.3 million inhabitants, often several times. Hundreds of thousands live in camps with few services.
Ceasefire talks brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt have repeatedly stalled, as have parallel efforts by the US and others to halt fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
Qatar, Hamas’ main mediator, said on Saturday he stopped his efforts and would resume “when the parties show the will and seriousness to end the brutal war”.
Some Palestinians in Gaza responded with frustration.
“The Arab silence that controls the Arab capitals is because of the fear of the United States administration and Israel,” said Akram Jarada, displaced from Gaza City.
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