Egypt says talks ongoing with Lebanon, Israel to avoid ‘confrontations’
Egypt’s foreign minister says that talks are under way with Lebanese and Israeli parties to avoid “engaging in all-encompassing confrontations”.
In a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said that recent meetings aimed to stop this “grave scenario” on the Lebanese front.
Hezbollah and Israel have been trading fire mostly at the border since October 7.
Tens of thousands of Israelis and Lebanese have been forced to evacuate from the area around the border between the two countries, and international observers have warned in recent weeks of the growing risk of a wider conflict.
Protest camp in support of Palestinians removed at McGill University’s campus
A protest camp in support of Palestinians is removed by authorities at McGill University’s campus in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
US-made munitions used in deadly Israeli strike on school complex near Khan Younis, CNN analysis finds
A Palestinian man inspects the site of an Israeli strike, outside a school sheltering displaced people, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 10
Israeli forces used US-made munitions in a deadly strike on a school complex that was housing displaced people near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to a CNN analysis of video from the scene.
At least 27 people have been killed and 53 have been injured in the strike, which hit the gate of the Al-Mutanabbi school complex, also known locally as the Al-Awda Schools, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
In a video filmed at the scene by a journalist working for CNN in the aftermath of the strike, a remnant of a US-made GBU-39 small-diameter bomb (SDB) is clearly visible.
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CNN identified remnants of GBU-39 small-diameter bombs in another two Israeli strikes in the past few months.
The GBU-39, which is manufactured by Boeing, is a high-precision munition “designed to attack strategically important point targets” and result in low collateral damage, explosive weapons expert Chris Cobb-Smith told CNN following the first strike on Rafah tent camp, which took place on May 26.
“Using any munition, even of this size, will always incur risks in a densely populated area,” said Cobb-Smith, who is also a former British Army artillery officer.
