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SvennoJ on 12 October 2024

Death toll rises in Jabalia attack, more killed in strike on Gaza City

At least 22 people are now confirmed dead as a result of an Israeli air strike in Jabalia, northern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.

We previously reported that Israeli fighter jets bombed a multistorey apartment block in Jabalia, hitting four inhabited homes. Women, children and elderly are among the dead, while 30 more are injured, and 14 people are still missing under the rubble, according to Wafa.

In nearby Gaza City, at least three people have been killed and several more injured after the Israeli military bombed a home in the Tuffah neighbourhood, according to Palestine Red Crescent Society paramedics.


Israeli military issues new evacuation orders for northern Gaza

The Israeli military posted a map of northern Gaza on X with instructions for residents in the vicinity of Jabalia to leave.

“The area must be evacuated immediately via Salah El-Din Street to the humanitarian area,” the post added, referring to the so-called humanitarian zone between al-Mawasi and Deir el-Balah in southern Gaza.

The “humanitarian area”, populated by overcrowded tent camps housing about one million displaced Palestinians, has been subject to repeated deadly Israeli attacks. On Wednesday, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), criticised Israel’s efforts to “forcefully and violently push thousands of people from northern Gaza to the south”.


Casualties of Jabalia attacks arriving in hospital in pieces or soaked in blood

The latest Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp reminds us of the initial weeks of the war and relentless attacks there. Many people in Jabalia have been describing to us that there are ongoing artillery and air strikes that are like earlier in this genocidal war.

Powerful explosions were heard in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. This latest strike that killed more than 20 Palestinians was catastrophic. Many of the casualties are children and women, and they are arriving at the hospital either in pieces or soaked in blood.

The question that many are asking is why are so many civilians are killed, and people here keep asking why this is happening to them. If this is a target, why does the Israeli military not send warnings to civilians?

This is not collateral damage, it is caused deliberately and is hitting the trapped population on the northern part of the Strip.


Rocket fired into Israel, Palestinian fighters use mortars, IEDs in Jabalia: Monitors

Rockets from Gaza continue to target Israel with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades launching a rocket at the Israeli city of Sderot, military analysts report.

The rocket was fired from northern Gaza on Friday where Israeli forces have been carrying out a punishing weeklong ground operation to root out Palestinian armed resistance, US-based think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) report.

According to the latest ISW-CTP joint report, fighters with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the National Resistance Brigades, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Resistance Committee carried out mortar attacks in Jabalia on Friday.

The Palestinian Mujahideen Brigades also used an improvised explosive device (IED) to target a tank in the Jabalia refugee camp while Hamas fighters used rocket-propelled grenades and IEDs against Israeli armour in Beit Lahiya, located to the north of Jabalia.

One Israeli soldier was reported killed in southern Gaza on Friday, according to the monitors.


Red Cross receiving ‘overwhelming’ number of calls for help after Israeli evacuation orders

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reports that it is receiving more distress calls than it can handle after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for northern Gaza on Friday which it has followed up with another order this morning.

“They tell us they are scared and desperate. Many are pleading with us and asking the questions of where they can go, what they should do, and where they can find safety for themselves and their families,” said ICRC spokesperson Sarah Davies in a video message from Gaza.

“Parents are reaching out to us, asking for tents, food, safe drinking water, for things like diapers for their babies, who have never known a moment of peace or a time when the fighting has stopped.”

Davies said families are “at a breaking point” and hundreds of thousands have been affected just by the latest of many forced evacuation orders.



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SvennoJ on 12 October 2024

Israeli army shooting at Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza

The Israeli army is now shooting indiscriminately on Palestinians trying to flee as-Saftawi in northern Gaza.

This comes after the army warned residents of northern Gaza to evacuate to the south.


Qassam Brigades says two Israeli tanks, bulldozer hit in Rafah

As the Israeli military attacks northern Gaza from the air and ground, the armed wing of Hamas reports that ground fighting continues in the southern part of the enclave as well.

Qassam Brigades said Palestinian fighters used Yassin-105 anti-armour explosive shells in the al-Jnaina neighbourhood east of Rafah city in the southernmost part of Gaza to hit two Merkava tanks and a D9 bulldozer of the Israeli military.


Palestinians refusing to leave homes in Jabalia and north despite latest evacuation order

It was Israel’s plan from the first day of the war to empty northern Gaza including Gaza City. But so far, Palestinians, especially those who are in the northern parts of the Strip, are refusing to leave their homes.

We have seen numerous evacuation orders in the past week. We’re talking about an eighth consecutive day of this operation taking place in Jabalia in the north. Israeli forces issued another evacuation order for area D-5 this morning but people refused to leave even though they have been facing many hardships.

This is not the first ground operation of the Israeli army in Jabalia. The Palestinians say they prefer dying in their homes because they believe that there is no place safe across the Gaza Strip, so even if they evacuate they might get killed on the way.


Israel has carried out ‘massacres’ in Jabalia under US protection

Hamas has accused the Israeli army of committing “massacres” in northern Gaza’s Jabalia region, claiming the attacks were carried out as “retaliation against unarmed civilians under American cover”.

In a statement on Saturday, Hamas condemned what it described as Israeli “Nazi occupation’s massacres” that targeted a residential area in Jabalia late on Friday, killing at least 22 people and wounded more than 90.

“These massacres are a continuation of the ongoing criminal genocide against our people, shielded by American support,” the statement said, adding that these escalated strikes on civilians are an attempt to “punish the population for their resilience and rejection of displacement”.

“The ongoing Nazi terrorist crimes, now in their second year, demonstrate to the world that this rogue, fascist entity is bloodthirsty and seeks revenge through further genocide against our people in Gaza and the Lebanese population.”


Israeli siege in northern Gaza ‘having a disastrous impact on food security’

Northern Gaza, which has again been under an Israeli military siege for more than a week, is experiencing fast-rising levels of food security, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).

“No food aid has entered the north since October 1,” the UN organisation said. “It is unclear how long WFP’s remaining food supplies in the north, already distributed to shelters and health facilities, will last.”



SvennoJ on 12 October 2024

Second phase of polio vaccination in Gaza to start from Monday

Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that a second round of polio vaccination will start from Monday. The vaccines will be administered to children under 10 for a period of three days, with the possibility of extending for an additional day.

For now, only vaccinations in central Gaza have been confirmed, with uncertainty looming over northern Gaza, where the Israeli military is laying a deadly siege as hundreds of thousands are trapped and unable to leave.

The first round was conducted in September, and successfully inoculated most children. The virus, which was eradicated in the enclave more than 20 years ago, has made a comeback due to deteriorating health conditions created by Israeli military attacks.


Civil defence teams search for little girl after deadly Gaza City attack

A home in Tuffah district of Gaza City was reduced to rubble by Israeli bombs that killed at least three people and left several others critically wounded.

“The civil defence teams promptly headed to this location and transported more than 15 injured individuals, including children, women and elderly, during the night, to the Baptist Hospital,” civil defence member Ibrahim Abu Rish told Al Jazeera.

“Our teams are still searching for a missing little girl named Sila, and are still engaged in rescue operations to save whatever can be saved in this area.”

The field commander of civil defence in the governorate in North Gaza said rescue teams have been working for more than a year without the required equipment and resources to support their efforts.


Qassam Brigades says its fighters killed Israeli soldiers in Jabalia camp

The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters hit a group of 15 Israeli soldiers with an explosive device while they were trying to storm a house in the west of the refugee camp in northern Gaza.

A statement on Telegram said some of the soldiers were killed and others wounded.

Separately, the group said it attacked an Israeli Merkava tank and a personnel carrier in the region with Yassin 105 rockets, without giving further information.

 
Olive picking continues in Gaza as an act of resilience

The months of October and November mark the olive harvest season for Palestinians. But in the past year, the UN says at least one million olive trees have been uprooted by the Israeli military in Gaza.

Palestinians across Gaza continue to honour the tradition of olive picking as an act of resilience.



SvennoJ on 12 October 2024

Israeli military surrounds foreign activists in building near Nablus

Israeli forces surrounded a building housing 16 foreign activists in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, on Friday night and tried to break down the door, Wafa news agency reported.

The activists were in the town to support residents as part of the “Faz3a” solidarity campaign, which aims to provide international-led protection from Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank.

There are no updates on what happened to the activists following the raid on the building.

Israeli military raids have been reported elsewhere in the occupied West Bank in recent hours. They include:

  • The town of Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah
  • A house in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya. A Palestinian was arrested
  • Al-Suwaih neighbourhood in the town of Silwan


Israel’s ‘silent war’ on seizing Palestinian land in occupied West Bank

The UN says Israel is waging war on the occupied West Bank, adding that a silent war is also taking place that is focused on seizing Palestinian territory and uprooting Palestinian families from their land.

Attacks by Israeli forces and settlers have been among the most violent in the past year.

“Israel is waging two wars in the occupied West Bank. One campaign is record-breaking in its violence and destruction. The other is silent but strategically potent,” said Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from the occupied West Bank.

“It is the war on Palestinian land and the existence of Palestinian communities under the cover of genocide.”

Israel has illegally seized 27.8 square kilometres of Palestinian land, including areas the UN designated as World Heritage sites. That’s more than half of all the Palestinian land seized in the preceding 24 years.

“Since last October Israeli forces have demolished nearly 2,000 Palestinian homes and structures and displaced nearly 5,000 Palestinians, including uprooting entire communities from their lands affecting another more than 530,000 people.”

In addition, more than 700 people have been killed in these attacks since last October.


Palestinian farmers under attack by Israeli settlers

Since the start of the current conflict, Al Jazeera has documented the aftermath of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian Bedouins across the occupied West Bank.



Israeli settlers force Palestinian olive farmers from land in West Bank

The Wafa news agency reports that armed Israeli settlers forced olive farmers off their land in Jalud village, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on Saturday morning, amid threats that included “opening fire in the area”.

Threats, attacks, theft of olives and the destruction of olive trees by settlers have escalated in the West Bank with the arrival of the harvest season, Wafa reports.

On Thursday, Israeli right group Yesh Din released video footage of an armed Israeli settler openly stealing the olive harvest from a privately owned farm in the Palestinian town of Awarta, southeast of Nablus.

Each year at harvest time, Palestinians face a heightened wave of attacks and damage to their trees, the rights group said. Israeli soldiers are often present during such violence and sometimes join in attacks on Palestinian farmers, Yesh Din said.


Israeli forces storm town east of Nablus in occupied West Bank

We reported on how settlers, protected by Israeli soldiers, forced Palestinian farmers from their land south of Nablus. A group of Israeli soldiers have also been spotted storming the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Multiple videos from the scene showed the moments Israeli forces stormed a building under construction in the town this morning. They were seen on the roof of the building as well, but it is still unclear who they were targeting.


Half-life, half-house: Portrait of a Palestinian family after Israeli raids

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/10/12/half-life-half-house-portrait-of-a-palestinian-family-after-israeli-raids

On September 2, an Israeli soldier used a bulldozer to destroy the facade of Akram Nassar’s house, like several others on the street.

Akram’s barely standing house, with none of the privacy or protection the idea of home conjures, fits in with the devastated landscape of the West Bank’s Tulkarem.

Since October 7, the Israeli military’s “counter-terror” raids have damaged or destroyed most dwellings and infrastructure in the refugee camp.


Akram Nassar’s children, Rahim and Bara, in their partially demolished house, Tulkarem refugee camp, occupied West Bank, September 16



SvennoJ on 12 October 2024

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SvennoJ on 12 October 2024

Lebanon army to conduct more joint patrols with UNIFIL

A source close to the Lebanese army leadership has told Al Jazeera that:

  • The deployment of the army in southern Lebanon comes in compliance with resolution 1701 and the army adheres to the decision.
  • The army’s mission in southern Lebanon is to conduct patrols in coordination with UNIFIL.
  • The Lebanese army will not allow Israel to storm its positions in southern Lebanon and will defend them.
  • The army is communicating with friendly armies to obtain funds to increase its resources and equipment in southern Lebanon.
  • ⁠The army seeks to raise the number of its soldiers in southern Lebanon to 10,000.


Spanish peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) coordinate their patrol with the Lebanese army, in Marjayoun in south Lebanon, on October 8


UN peacekeepers in Lebanon warn against ‘catastrophic’ regional conflict

A spokesman for the UN peacekeepers in Lebanon says he fears an Israeli escalation against Lebanon’s Hezbollah group could soon spiral out of control.

This risks “turning very soon into a regional conflict with catastrophic impact for everyone”, UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti told the AFP news agency, calling for a diplomatic solution.


Spokesperson says UN peacekeepers to remain in Lebanon: Report

UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon will not move from the border area despite five of their members being wounded and damage to facilities during the Israel-Hezbollah war, their spokesperson told AFP.

Andrea Tenenti, the spokesperson for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), also said that an Israeli escalation against Lebanese group Hezbollah in past weeks risked turning into “a regional conflict with catastrophic impact for everyone” and that the only solution was “diplomatic”.

Tenenti said Israel had asked UNIFIL to withdraw from positions “up to five kilometres [three miles] from the Blue Line” separating both countries, but the peacekeepers refused.

That would have included its 29 positions in the country’s south.

“There was a unanimous decision to stay because it’s important for the UN flag to still fly high in this region, and to be able to report to the Security Council,” he told AFP in an exclusive interview.



SvennoJ on 12 October 2024

Thirty-five rockets launched at Israel from Lebanon: Army

The Israeli military says about 35 rockets have been fired from Lebanon on northern Israel in the afternoon. The army said some of the rockets were intercepted, adding that some of them landed. It gave no further information. The barrage triggered aerial warning sirens.

The army said earlier it had intercepted dozens of other rockets in multiple waves of attacks launched from Lebanon.


Lebanon says 9 dead in Israeli attacks on two villages

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli attacks on two villages, one north and another south of Beirut, have killed at least nine people.

An “Israeli enemy strike on Maaysrah”, a Shia-majority village in a mostly Christian mountain area north of Beirut, killed “five people and wounded 14 others”, the ministry said in a statement.

It added separately that “four people were killed and 14 others wounded” in an “Israeli enemy strike” on Barja in the Chouf district south of the capital.


Lebanese army soldiers deploy around a building hit by an Israeli airstrike in Barja, Lebanon, on Saturday, October 12.


Hezbollah fired about 320 projectiles into Israel over Yom Kippur: Israeli army

“Throughout the weekend of Yom Kippur, approximately 320 projectiles that were fired by the Hezbollah terrorist organisation crossed from Lebanon into Israel,” the military said in a statement.

Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day, ended at nightfall.


Hezbollah claims yesterdays drone attack on Tel Aviv

As we reported yesterday, two drones made their way from Lebanese territory into the airspace around the Israeli city, causing damage to a building and a small power outage.

In a statement published moments ago, Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for this attack, saying that it launched a “squadron of suicide drones on the outskirts of Tel Aviv”.

This marks one of the rare instances of Hezbollah weapons penetrating far enough into Israeli territory to threaten its largest city.



SvennoJ on 12 October 2024

Lebanon’s educational sector hit hard as schools turn into shelters

Continuing Israeli air strikes across Lebanon are directly affecting the country’s education sector.

At least 60 percent of the country’s public schools are now being used as shelters for the displaced, meaning that the start of the school year has been pushed back to November 4, affecting more than 300,000 children’s access to education, UN figures show.

More than 40 percent of students have been forced from their homes due to Israeli attacks.


Israeli strike hits centre of market in Lebanon’s Nabatieh

Reports from Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency say that, about one hour ago, Israeli warplanes struck the main commercial market street of Nabaiteh, a major city in Lebanon’s south.

Video from the ground, which our fact-checkers verified, shows flames rising from the area, and Lebanese army soldiers clearing the streets.

The Lebanese Red Cross says in a statement that its teams are responding to a “major air strike” in the city. “Severe fires are preventing us from reaching the targeted area”, the statement reads, promising updates as the situation develops.

The Red Cross shared a photo of high flames in Nabatieh along with its statement:


Lebanese Red Cross crew in Nabatieh, October 12, 2024


Update from the Lebanese Health Ministry

At least 1,645 people have been killed in Lebanon since late September, when Israel escalated its attacks, the ministry says.

As of October 12 this year, 2,255 were killed, including at least 127 children and 261 women, and 10,524 were injured since Hezbollah and Israel started trading fire more than a year ago.


Lebanese army members patrol at the site of an Israeli air strike, amid continuing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut, Lebanon


Israeli strikes continue to kill across Lebanon

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health has released updates on the death tolls that resulted from two recent Israeli strikes.

At least nine people were killed and 15 wounded in the village of Maaysra, the ministry said. Maaysra is located in the Mount Lebanon governate, between Beirut and the city of Byblos.

At least four were also killed and 18 wounded in the town of Barja, in the Chouf district of Lebanon, the ministry said.



SvennoJ on 12 October 2024

PRCS says children suffering from lack of food in Gaza

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says that for the past 12 months, 90 percent of children in Gaza have suffered from “food poverty”.

“Human suffering should never be normalised,” PRCS said on X. “We must work towards ending this ongoing crisis.”

Qassam Brigades claims attacks on Israeli forces in Jabalia

The armed wing of Hamas says on Telegram that its fighters attacked Israeli forces with mortar shells and “destroyed a concentration” in the east of the camp in northern Gaza. It also said fighters struck an Israeli Merkava tank with a Yassin 105 rocket in central Jabalia.

The Israeli army has been carrying out a large operation in northern Gaza and clashes in the areas have been reported by both sides.


Situation in Jabalia is becoming worse day by day

The situation in the Jabalia refugee camp is realistically very catastrophic. Witnesses tell us that the army has been actively operating in the heart of the camp and the border towns in the north of the Strip until now.

The military and the humanitarian situation are getting much worse there day by day.

Humanitarian supplies are not allowed to be transferred to the north of Gaza. The UN said no new food entered northern Gaza since the beginning of October, and this will certainly lead to a new wave of starvation there.

People say they are running extremely low on food in the camp and going through days without any water source.


New wave of Israeli attacks in Gaza’s Jabalia kills eight

We are receiving reports of a new wave of Israeli air strikes hitting a residential house in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp. Medical sources said at least eight Palestinians were killed in the attack, bringing to 30 the death toll from today’s attacks across the Strip.

The refugee camp has been targeted with renewed intensity for more than a week as Israeli forces have imposed a siege on the site with no food or medical supplies being allowed in.

Thousands of people are trapped inside the refugee camp too scared to leave. According to an Al Jazeera correspondent and Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initals MSF, Israeli snipers have been killing people trying to flee despite issuing evacuation. Other residents have decided to stay as the designated “humanitarian safe zones” have also been attacked.

MSF reported on Friday that members of its staff were also trapped in the camp for fear of being shot while Israeli forces were turning northern Gaza into “uninhabitable ruins”.



SvennoJ on 12 October 2024

Israeli army says it killed 20 Hamas fighters

The Israeli army has said in a statement it killed 20 Hamas fighters in the past 24 hours in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp.

The army added it killed so far about 200 fighters in the area, without specifying the timeframe. The statement also said the army killed an unspecified number of fighters in the southern city of Rafah.

Israeli forces have renewed their attacks in the north of the Strip, where more than 400,000 people are trapped, according to UNRWA.


Director of Gaza Health Ministry: 200 killed so far in Israel’s siege of north Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have interviewed Dr. Mounir al-Bursh, head of Gaza’s Health Ministry, who gave a terrifying picture of Israel’s siege of the northern Strip, which he said has been going for eight days now.

Here are a few of his key points summarised:

  • The situation at al-Awda Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital and Kamal Adwan Hospital is catastrophic.
  • Families are besieged for the eighth day. Many dead bodies are left on the streets
  • Twenty-two people were killed in Jabalia yesterday. There was another massacre today in central Jabalia.
  • Two hundred people have been killed in seven days in northern Gaza.
  • Thirty-two patients are still at the Indonesian Hospital. Two are in intensive care.
  • At Kamal Awdan Hospital, 177 patients remain.
  • More than 31 patients at al-Awda Hospital.
  • More than 240 medical staff are still serving at the three hospitals.


A medical student’s fight to continue her education in Gaza

Iman Ayad, a 22-year-old medical student from Gaza, faces immense challenges studying in a tent since the war on Gaza began. Using a friend’s laptop for online classes, she remains committed to her education, motivated by her desire to help the people of Gaza.

Despite the hardships, Iman refuses to give up, knowing her studies will enable her to make a difference for her community.


We are suffocating’: At least three killed in central Gaza

At least three people were killed in an attack by an Israeli drone missile on a group of people who were gathering around a water tank in Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, our correspondent on the ground reports.

Casualties arriving at the Al-Aqsa Hospital were shredded and fully soaked in blood, they said.

“Either you kill all of us or relocate us abroad,” a man on the scene told Al Jazeera. “Every day, we experience anguish over our relatives, neighbours and loved ones. We are suffocating … we are dying! Every day, we grieve the killing of someone new,” he said.

“Girls killed. Children torn to pieces. They are all gone. Put an end to this war, we can’t take it any more,” he added.