Israel pushes ahead with plan to allow more limited air drops over Gaza
The Israeli military reports that it allowed six countries, including for the first time Italy and Greece, to airdrop 106 packages of aid over the starving Gaza Strip.
It said in a statement that the two countries joined the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Germany and the Netherlands in today’s air drop.
The UN and international stakeholders have repeatedly denounced the air drops as ineffective and dangerous. Israel continues to block most aid from getting to starving Palestinians in the enclave, as more people die from hunger on a daily basis.
Eleven more people die due to famine, malnutrition in Gaza
Hospitals in Gaza have recorded 11 deaths in the past 24 hours due to famine and malnutrition, raising the total number of such deaths to 212, including 98 children.
Gaza death toll rises
At least 39 people have been killed and 491 wounded by Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Health Ministry says. It added that 21 of those killed died while waiting for food aid.
The number of people dying due to Israeli-induced famine and malnutrition has risen to 212, including 98 children. At least 61,369 people have now been killed by Israeli attacks since the start of the war in October 2023.
Explosion of Israeli ordnance kills Lebanese troops in Tyre district
Several Lebanese army personnel were killed and wounded when ammunition remnants from Israeli attacks exploded during an attempt to dismantle them in southern Lebanon, the National News Agency has reported.
The report said that the blast occurred in an area between Majdal Zoun and Zibqin in the Tyre district, where an army engineering team was working to neutralise unexploded ordnance.
Southern Lebanon has witnessed repeated incidents involving leftover munitions from past Israeli army attacks, which continue to pose a deadly risk to residents and security forces in the area.
One person killed in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports that the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, which is affiliated with the Health Ministry, says an Israeli air attack has hit a vehicle in the town of Ainata in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district, killing one person.
The aftermath of the strike can be seen in this video, which was posted on social media by the NBN Lebanon news outlet and verified by Al Jazeera:
فيديو - السيارة المستهدفة في بلدة عيناتا جنوب لبنان pic.twitter.com/INuq0sB9pa
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