SvennoJ 2 days ago
Main points for October 15th
- Five people, including three children, have been killed after Israeli warplanes bombed the town of Riyaq in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.
- At least 10 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the town of Qana in southern Lebanon.
- At least 41 people have been killed and 124 injured by Israeli attacks in Lebanon over the past day.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin have told Israel it must take steps in the next month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza to avoid legal action involving US military aid.
- The UK has announced new sanctions against three “illegal settler outposts” and four groups accused of committing violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
- Israel’s siege of the north of the Gaza Strip continues with the Israeli army planting explosive-filled barrels to destroy homes.
- Ten members of the Abu Taamiya family were among 61 people killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
- More than 25 percent of Lebanon is now under Israeli military evacuation orders, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says.
- The acting director of al-Awda Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp warned Israel’s assault on the north of the Gaza Strip has escalated to a “horrifying level of atrocity”.
