SvennoJ 2 days ago
Summary for Nov 2nd
- At least 55 people have been killed and 192 wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza over the last 24 hours, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) said six people, including four children, were wounded in an Israeli attack on a polio vaccination centre in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City.
- WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the health centre was “in an area where a humanitarian pause was agreed to allow vaccination to proceed”. Israel has denied carrying out the attack.
- At least 71 people were killed and 169 wounded in Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Friday, bringing the total killed since October 2023 to at least 2,968, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry’s most recent statistics.
- An Israeli military official said naval commandos captured a “senior Hezbollah operative” in the coastal town of Batroun in Lebanon and brought him to Israel for investigation.
- Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has instructed his Foreign Ministry to submit a complaint to the UN Security Council over the kidnapping.
