SvennoJ 4 days ago
Main points on October 26th
- At least 35 Palestinians in besieged northern Gaza were killed in an attack on a residential area that destroyed several buildings in Beit Lahiya with the death toll expected to rise.
- Residents of Beit Lahiya are scrambling to rescue survivors after Israel’s deadly assault as civil defence crews are unable to reach the area due to Israeli attacks, according to our correspondent.
- Israeli forces have detained at least 44 hospital staff at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving only three doctors to care for nearly 200 patients.
- UN’s top humanitarian official Joyce Msuya said “the entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying” as Israel’s weeks-long siege of the region continues.
- Israeli warplanes attacked Iran from Iraqi airspace, Iran’s mission to the UN says, blaming the United States for what it called “complicity”.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel chose the targets it attacked in Iran based on its “national interests”, not what was dictated by the United States.
- The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran’s nuclear infrastructure was not hit by the Israeli attacks.
- Iran’s military chief Major-General Abdolrahim Mousavi said his country “reserves the right to respond at an appropriate time” to the Israeli attacks that killed four soldiers in the country.
- In Lebanon, the Israeli military again issued forced evacuation orders for parts of southern Beirut, while Hezbollah also ordered residents of at least 25 communities in northern Israel to “evacuate immediately”.
- Hezbollah ordered residents of 25 communities in northern Israel to “evacuate immediately” in a reversal from the usual Israeli army orders to Lebanese civilians.
