SvennoJ on 20 October 2024
Main points for October 19th
- At least 73 people have been killed in an Israeli attack on north Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, according to the territory’s Government Media Office.
- The attack comes after Gaza health officials said Israeli forces surrounded and shelled Beit Lahiya’s Indonesian Hospital.
- Oxfam has condemned the killing of four water engineers in an Israeli attack east of Khan Younis, in Gaza’s south.
- Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has said that 20,000 people were forced to flee the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza yesterday, including from UN shelters.
- Gaza health officials have said Israeli forces surrounded and shelled the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed “agents of Iran” for a drone attack on his home in Israel’s Caesarea. Iran’s UN mission said Hezbollah carried out the attack.
- In Lebanon, Israeli forces have conducted heavy strikes on several locations in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
- The Israeli military has said it targeted Hezbollah’s intelligence command centre in the Lebanese capital and several munitions warehouses belonging to the group.
- US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called on Israel to “scale back” some of its strikes in and around Beirut.
And the region is still holding its breath for the planned retaliation of Israel on Iran with US backing. Netanyahu will be more determined now then ever after blaming the drone attack on one of his homes on "agents of Iran".
