Hezbollah condemns Israeli attack on refugee camp that killed 13

The Lebanese group says it condemns “in the strongest terms” Israel’s overnight attack on the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in the southern city of Sidon.

It called the attack a “flagrant violation” of Lebanese sovereignty and the year-old ceasefire that should have stopped Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

“The pillars of the Lebanese state must realise that showing any leniency, weakness, or submission to this enemy only increases its ferocity, savagery, and audacity, and that mere reactive responses that do not rise to the level of aggression will only lead to more attacks and massacres”, it said, calling on the Lebanese state to respond firmly to the attack.

Meanwhile, two towns in southern Lebanon are currently waiting on Israel to strike, after its army issued forced displacement orders for its residents a short while ago.

Israeli strike on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon ‘killed mostly children’

Paramedics searched for human remains in the wreckage of Tuesday’s deadly Israeli attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, which residents say killed mostly children at a sports playground.

Israeli army follows through with threats to bomb Tair Filsi

Video circulating on social media shows an Israeli air strike on the town in South Lebanon, a short while after it issued threats saying it would bomb the town and one other, Aynata.

The footage below has been verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit

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Israeli strike destroys home in southern Lebanon’s Aynata

Israeli warplanes carried out a strike on the town of Aynata in the Bint Jbeil district a short while ago, following earlier threats issued against the area, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reports.

The air raid targeted a house within a residential neighbourhood, completely destroying the building and causing significant damage to surrounding homes, NNA added.

What’s happening in the West Bank?

Israeli forces have carried out a familiar wave of overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, spanning the governorates of Jenin, Tubas, Bethlehem and Hebron.

During a raid in the town of Beit Ummar, near Hebron, Israeli forces stormed a house and kicked out its inhabitants after assaulting them, according to Wafa news agency. They sealed off the entrance to the family’s house with an “iron sheet”.

In al-Yamoun, near Jenin, Israeli forces shot a 14-year-old in his home. He has been hospitalised in serious condition.

Israeli forces round up more than 100 people in Beit Ummar

Footage seen by Al Jazeera shows Israeli forces detaining a group of blindfolded men in the town of Beit Ummar in the occupied West Bank. The Anadolu news agency, quoting local sources, reports that Israeli forces have rounded up at least 100 Palestinians in the town, while closing all its entrances.

Israeli settlers vandalise Palestinian shop in Nablus

A group of Israeli settlers has broken into a Palestinian shop in the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank and vandalised it, reports Wafa. Footage shared by the agency shows the store’s window shattered and much of its merchandise, including ceramic appliances, destroyed.

Israeli forces interrogated 200 people in Beit Ummar, prisoners’ group says

More details are emerging about the Israeli raid last night on Beit Ummar, near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

The Anadolu news agency reported earlier that Israeli forces rounded up about 100 Palestinians in the town. Now, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) has said on Telegram that at least 200 people were targeted for interrogation, with “extensive” field interrogations still ongoing.

The investigations have been accompanied by harassment, beatings and destruction of property, the PPS added. Wafa earlier reported that Israeli forces stormed a house, assaulted its inhabitants and kicked them out.

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian olive farmers, vandalise equipment

Wafa news agency is reporting several new attacks by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. A group of settlers entered the town of Deir Ballut, near Salfit, and assaulted Palestinian olive farmers. The settlers also stole money from the farmers and wrecked their agricultural equipment.

In the village of Taybeh, northeast of Ramallah, settlers attacked and vandalised a Palestinian man’s vehicle.

Israeli forces demolish 2 West Bank homes

Israeli forces have demolished the homes of two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank – one in the town of Anata, near Jerusalem, and the other in the village of Marj al-Ghazal near Jericho, according to Wafa news agency.

Photos shared by Wafa show the house in Anata reduced to mounds of rubble. The demolition is part of a pattern of weekly home demolitions and eviction notices in the area, according to a Jerusalem governorate statement cited by Wafa.

Al-Quds Brigades targets Israeli forces in Jenin

The Jenin battalion of the al-Quds Brigades – the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad – has targeted Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, our colleagues on the ground are reporting. The battalion said it targeted Israeli forces with an explosive device during their raid on the village of Silat al-Harithiya.

Jenin has emerged as a flashpoint in the West Bank as Israel escalates its attacks on the Palestinian territory.

Israeli settlers fence off more land in northern Jordan Valley

The al-Maleh village council head has told the Wafa news agency that Israeli settlers are cutting off access to more agricultural land they seized from Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Fencing now extends from the Tayasir military checkpoint in the northern West Bank towards the al-Burj area, Mahdi Daraghmeh said, in addition to thousands of dunams of grazing and agricultural areas seized in recent weeks.

One dunam is equal to 1,000 square metres or about 0.25 acres.

More details on Israeli military’s siege of Beit Ummar

The Israeli army has imposed a full curfew on the town of Beit Ummar in the occupied West Bank, while continuing its siege, according to the Wafa news agency.

As we reported earlier, Israeli soldiers last night detained dozens of the town’s residents, who were questioned and held for several hours. Wafa put the number of detainees at around 150, while the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Telegram that 200 people had been targeted.

Mohammed Awad, a local media activist, said that Israeli forces, who introduced a full curfew yesterday after declaring Beit Ummar a closed military zone, have stopped ambulances, vehicles and residents from moving around the town.

Israeli troops seized more than 15 properties and positioned snipers on the roofs, according to Awad, who added that stricter Israeli patrols have stopped people from going to the town’s mosques.

There are also reported to be tight restrictions on roads towards the city of Hebron as well as in the surrounding area.

Israel conducts air raids in Rafah, Khan Younis

Israel’s military has carried out several air raids in parts of southern Gaza’s Rafah and Khan Younis, report our colleagues on the ground. The attacks follow an earlier air raid on eastern Gaza City.

Woman, child wounded in Israeli attack near Khan Younis

An Israeli drone attack in Bani Suheila, near southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, has wounded a woman and her child, according to a Nasser Hospital report cited by our colleagues on the ground.

Polish company accused of supplying explosives for Israel’s war on Gaza

A Poland state-owned company has been accused of playing a crucial role in aiding Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, providing a key explosive used in bombs and artillery that have been widely deployed in the Strip.

A report released on Tuesday by a group of pro-Palestine organisations found the explosives maker Nitro-Chem to have supplied US arms companies with trinitrotoluene (TNT) for use in military shells, bombs and grenades that are exported to Israel, a top US ally.

Poland, the only major TNT producer in the EU and NATO.

_{Israel is known to have used unguided bombs of the Mk 80 series in the bombing of Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp in November 2023, which could amount to a war crime}

Trump loses cool after brave ABC reporter challenges him, MBS at White House

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday lost his temper when a reporter from ABC media outlet asked him about his conflict of interest in doing business with Saudi Arabia before grilling him about Epstein files. Angry Trump said he would want the ABC licence to be cancelled.

Their Sacrifice Was Not in Vain”: Gaza Changed the World | Ghada Karmi

What happened in Gaza after October 7, 2023 “changed the world, turned it upside down,” says Dr. Ghada Karmi. In this clip, she explains why the people of Gaza “did not die in vain,” how their suffering exposed the brutality of the Western order, and why the Global South now faces a choice: accept permanent subjugation or stand up with dignity against empire.

Gaza’s sacrifice, she argues, has opened a historic debate about the future of the world — and a new order that must replace the rotten one we live under now.

They Finally Connected the Dots: Israel and Anti-Muslim Hatred

In this video, we break down a surprising shift: several right-wing commentators are finally acknowledging how anti Muslim hatred is weaponised by Israel to justify the dehumanisation of Palestinians. From media narratives to political talking points, these voices unexpectedly connect the dots revealing how anti-Muslim hatred is used to distract and justify Israel’s ongoing crimes.

Damascus condemns Israeli PM visit to occupied outpost in southern Syria

Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip today to an area of southern Syria that the Israeli army occupies was “illegal” and constituted “a serious violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”, Damascus has said.

In a statement, the country’s foreign office said the Israeli prime minister’s visit was “a new attempt to impose a fait accompli that contradicts relevant Security Council resolutions”.

Since occupying an area in southern Syria in December 2024, Israel has refused to hand it back to Damascus.

Netanyahu’s office confirmed in a post on X that he had visited an Israeli army outpost in the neighbouring country along with other senior officials including Defence Minister Israel Katz.

Netanyahu trip to occupied zone in Syria ‘concerning’, says UN chief

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit today to an occupied part of southern Syria.

“This very public visit is concerning to say the least. We call on Israel to respect the 1974 disengagement agreement,” said Guterres’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.

As we reported earlier, Damascus has already condemned Netanyahu’s trip, labelling it “a serious violation” of its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

UNRWA boss calls for more funding before mandate renewal vote

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has called for more funding, saying its current shortfall “risks the rights, lives and future” of millions of Palestinians.

Speaking from Amman, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini expressed hope that today’s vote in New York on the renewal of the agency’s mandate would reflect “the overwhelming solidarity of people across the world with Palestine Refugees and UNRWA”.

However, he noted that a reaffirmation of its mandate alone is “not sufficient”, saying it had to be combined with “adequate funding” and “a delineation of its role in political plans for the occupied Palestinian territory”.

Lazzarini blamed “virulent disinformation” for the strangling of the agency’s funding. It faces a $200m shortfall between the last quarter of this year and the first quarter of 2026, he said.

Israel has taken great pains to associate the agency with Hamas, accusations which have been debunked by independent experts. Israel has also banned UNRWA from operating inside Gaza and the West Bank.

The UNRWA boss also stressed that the agency remains active in Gaza, and called for accountability over the killings of 380 of its employees in the enclave.

WFP warns Gaza families face another brutal winter exposed

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says many families in Gaza are bracing for another winter spent without proper shelter, as heavy rain floods their tents and damages what little food supplies they have left.

In a post on X, WFP shared images of soaked tents and warned that plunging temperatures will worsen conditions for displaced families living outdoors.

The agency said its cash assistance programme remains a vital lifeline for the most vulnerable households as winter approaches, and that it is working to expand support to those most at risk.

Heavy rains flood Gaza tents with sewage, putting thousands of children at risk

Save the Children says children in Gaza are sleeping on bare, wet ground in clothing soaked with sewage water after heavy rains flooded hundreds of tents and makeshift shelters over the weekend, heightening the risk of disease as winter sets in.

The group said more than 13,000 households were affected by Friday’s flooding, as Gaza’s sanitation system has largely collapsed after two years of Israeli bombardment, siege and severe aid restrictions. With drainage systems destroyed, rainwater mixed with sewage inundated tents, soaking mattresses, blankets, clothing and even food supplies.

According to the humanitarian shelter cluster, two-thirds of Gaza’s children – approximately 700,000 – are living in tents that are falling apart after two years of bombardment and displacement.

With more than 81 percent of buildings damaged, many families remain in deteriorating tents, patching holes with blankets and scraps of fabric.

Save the Children warned that cold exposure is deadly for Gaza’s already malnourished children, noting that at least 14 children, including newborns, died of hypothermia over the past two winters.

“This cannot happen again”, Ahmad Alhendawi, regional director for Save the Children in the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, said. “Children and families have woken up submerged in sewage water. For the third winter now since the start of intense Israeli bombardment in October 2023, they are desperate not just for a lasting ceasefire but for secure, safe and warm places to sleep”, Alhendawi said.

Civil Defence warns Gaza residents not to return to collapsing homes

The Palestinian Civil Defence has urged Gaza residents to stay away from homes that were heavily damaged during Israel’s assault on the enclave, warning that approaching or re-entering these structures poses a direct threat to their lives.

Mahmoud Basal, the agency’s spokesperson, told Safa news agency that dozens of people have been killed and hundreds injured in recent weeks due to the collapse of cracked and unstable buildings. He called on displaced families to avoid returning to these homes and instead seek shelter in available tents or emergency centres.

Basal said thousands of homes across the Gaza Strip are now at risk of collapse because of the scale of destruction, with Gaza City having the largest share of structurally compromised buildings.

He added that many residents are returning to unsafe homes only because they have no alternatives, noting that Israel continues to block the entry of urgently needed tents and caravans. He urged the international community to provide safe and immediate alternatives until reconstruction can begin.

“Every moment that passes now represents a direct threat to people’s lives,” Basal said.

Several Palestinians killed in attacks on Gaza City

One Palestinian was killed and 10 others were wounded after an Israeli air raid targeted Salah al-Din Street in Gaza City, the Wafa news agency reports.

It said Israeli aircraft struck a group of people near the Shujayea junction along the main road east of Gaza City, adding that those injured have varying degrees of wounds.

Separately, a medical source at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital said that five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid that hit a building housing displaced people in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City. At least one young child sustained severe wounds, according to footage verified by Al Jazeera.

Israeli ‘escalation’ kills at least 10 Palestinians across Gaza, Civil Defence says

Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, reported a sharp escalation in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, resulting in multiple casualties in several areas.

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Death toll from Israel’s flurry of strikes on Gaza rises to 23

According to our correspondent and sources at hospitals in the Strip, at least 23 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the cities of Gaza and Khan Younis.

This includes an entire family of five in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighourhood, wiped out by an Israeli strike.