Three killed as Israeli forces continue to pound Lebanon

Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting that Israeli forces bombed a house in the town of Maydoun in Bekaa, killing three people and destroying the house.

The killings came as Israeli forces continued to pound Lebanon, bombing shops selling electrical appliances in the southern city of Tyre and carrying out air raids on the towns of Shamshtar in eastern Baalbek and Roumine in southern Nabatieh.

Earlier in the evening, Israeli forces bombed the northern town of Ain Yaaqoub, killing at least 14 people. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said Israeli attacks killed at least 54 people across the country on Monday.

‘Do they want to hurt our children? We are not what they are looking for’

At the burns centre in Beirut’s Lebanon Hospital Geitaoui, about a fifth of newly admitted patients are children, according to the AP.

Among them is Ivana Skakye, who suffered third-degree burns over 40 percent of her body following an Israeli attack on her home on September 23. The girl, who turned two last week, remains wrapped in gauze around her head, arms and lower body.

Fatima Zayoun, her mother, told the AP that the Israeli attack damaged their house and caused a fire.

Ivana and her sister were playing on the terrace at the time of the strike. Zayoun said she found the two children covered in black ash. Ivana was unrecognisable. Her hair had burned away.

The child could be discharged in the coming days, but Zayoun said the family has no home to return to. She’s worried that Ivana could suffer infections in the crowded shelters for the war-displaced.

“What do they want from us? Do they want to hurt our children? We are not what they are looking for,” Zayoun told the AP.

According to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health, Israeli attacks have killed 201 children in Lebanon since October 2023, and injured 1,272.

Israel’s attacks traumatising another generation in Lebanon, doctor says

Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have left hundreds of children struggling with physical and emotional wounds, according to the AP.

Among them is four-year-old Hussein Mikdad who, along with his father, was the only survivor from their family following an Israeli attack on their home in Beirut last month. That attack killed 18 people including Hussein’s mother, his two sisters and his brother.

Hussein suffered a fractured thigh and torn tendons in his arm.

Doctors at the American University of Beirut Medical Center say he should be able to walk again soon, albeit with a limp, but the prognosis for his invisible wounds is harder. Hussein is back in diapers and has begun wetting his bed. He hardly speaks and has not asked about his mother and siblings, his father said.

British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah, who is treating Hussein, told the AP that Israel’s attacks were leaving “a generation” of physically and psychologically wounded children.

‘Picture of life in Lebanon remains grim’: UN humanitarian coordinator

The UN humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon Imran Riza says there is “an alarming level of human costs and humanitarian consequences of conflict in Lebanon”.

In a statement, he shared the following figures:

Hezbollah fights back as Israel continues with intense air attacks

The Israeli air force is continuing to carry out intense air attacks across southern Lebanon, as well as in other areas where Hezbollah has influence.

In recent days, we’ve seen an increase in the number of attacks in Syria, which the Israeli military considers to be a logistical base for Hezbollah. Israel wants to stop the flow of weapons into Lebanon, but Hezbollah is fighting back.

Yesterday it launched dozens of rockets from southern Lebanon into the Haifa area – Israel’s third-largest city – causing material damage to cars and homes.

Hezbollah’s strategy is to keep this war costly for the Israelis, to put pressure on them and prevent the tens of thousands of their citizens from returning to their homes in the north of Israel.

But many are arguing at what cost?

In the past week alone, more than 240 people have been killed and 600 injured, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

Israel threatens residents in Beirut’s southern suburbs

The Israeli army has warned residents near four buildings in Haret Hreik, Beirut’s southern suburb, to leave, saying they were located “near facilities and interests affiliated with Hezbollah”.

There was a similar order for residents near four buildings in the Ghobeiry and Lailaki areas in southern Beirut and near three more buildings in the Hadath area.

The three separate statements by the military’s Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, included maps marked with the mentioned buildings in red. “You are located near Hezbollah facilities and interests”, against which the Israeli forces will “act forcefully in the near future”, Adraee said.

Attacks on south Beirut after Israel warning: Report

The AFP news agency is reporting that Israeli forces have attacked southern Beirut after issuing three separate warnings to residents to flee.

Hezbollah claims attack on northern Israel

The Lebanese armed group says its fighters hit the Kfar Blum settlement in northern Israel’s upper Galilee region. The attack on the settlement about 6km (4 miles) southeast of the Kiryat Shmona town was carried out with rockets, Hezbollah’s statement said on Telegram.

Phosphorous shells used in Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil, Tyre districts: Report

The outskirts of the Bint Jbeil district’s town of Yater and the Tyre district’s Zebqin in southern Lebanon have been subjected to artillery shelling with incendiary phosphorous shells, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).

The report said the attacks, accompanied by artillery shelling of 155mm-caliber, led to the outbreak of fires.

The NNA also said there was a heavy presence of drones and warplanes in the skies of the western Tyre district.

Air raids continue in densely built Beirut suburbs

Strikes have resumed in Beirut’s southern suburbs after evacuation orders for 11 buildings. There aren’t many people left, but the area is very densely built-up, so the strikes do not just damage the buildings that are directly targeted but those around them too.

This morning we saw videos of people fleeing the scene as plumes of smoke were rising. Most people have evacuated the area, but many go back during the day to check on their houses, so this may have been what happened earlier.

Israel yesterday hit Ain Yaaqoub, the northernmost town that has been hit so far, which has no known Hezbollah presence. We don’t know what the Israeli army hit, but they are now hitting places that are not associated with Hezbollah, leaving Lebanese people feeling that there isn’t anywhere safe.

Northern Israeli mayors to Netanyahu: No agreement until Hezbollah withdraws north of Litani River

Mateh Asher Regional Council head Moshe Davidovitch, who leads a forum comprised of mayors in northern Israel, has addressed a letter to Netanyahu advising him to avoid an agreement with Lebanon until Hezbollah forces have withdrawn beyond the Litani River, Israel’s Ynet News reports.

“You promised that we won’t be able to reach an agreement until Hezbollah is backed beyond the Litani River. We’ll only be able to return residents to their homes with their safety assured,” Ynet quoted him as saying in western Galilee.

One killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon’s Hermel

At least one person has been killed and four injured in Lebanon’s Hermel, a town in the eastern Baalbek-Hermel governorate, the Health Ministry said in a statement.

Hezbollah claims rocket attack on Israel’s Kfar Yuval settlement

The Lebanese armed group says its fighters have launched rockets at the Kfar Yuval settlement in northern Israel, near the towns of Metula and Kiryat Shmona.

We have reported earlier that the group claimed to have attacked the Kfar Blum settlement in Israel’s upper Galilee region and confronted an Israeli drone above Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate.

Israeli army warns residents of 14 villages in southern Lebanon to flee

The Israeli military has told the residents that it intends to launch a military operation against Hezbollah in their villages.

The affected villages include Chaqra, Hula, Majdal Selem, Taloussa, Meiss el-Jabal, as-Sawana, Qabrikha, Yahmour, Arnoun, Blida, Muhaibib, Barashit, Fron and Ghandouriya, according to Avichay Adraee, an Israeli army spokesperson.

“For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move to the north of the Awali River. To ensure your safety, you must evacuate without delay,” he said on X.

Several people killed in Israeli air attack in northern Lebanon

Several people have been killed in an Israeli air attack in north Lebanon as Israel continues bombing across the country in its war against Hezbollah.

A missile hit a residential building sheltering displaced civilians, including Syrian refugees.

Beirut suburbs hit by 13 air raids

At least 13 strikes have hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, state news agency NNA has reported, as air raids continue across Lebanon.

An Israeli strike has also been reported in Baalchmay, in the Aley district of Mount Lebanon, which is not a known Hezbollah stronghold.

Lebanon’s displaced brace for winter as ceasefire hopes fade

Since Israel escalated its war on Hezbollah in September, more than 1.2 million people have been uprooted from their homes. Tens of thousands have taken refuge in schools that Lebanon’s caretaker government – functioning without a president for two years – has converted into shelters.

But with space filling up, many have few alternatives but to squat in abandoned buildings or sleep in public spaces, such as outside mosques or on pavements.

Lebanese authorities are exacerbating their predicament by increasingly evicting people from informal settlements, even as winter quickly approaches and ceasefire talks waver. With no truce in sight, many displaced families are bracing for a winter out in the cold.

Five killed in Israeli strike on Lebanon’s Aley district

At least five people have been killed and two injured in an Israeli strike on the Lebanese town of Baalshamieh, in the Aley district of Mount Lebanon, the Health Ministry has said.

Civilian car targeted in US-UK air strike in Yemen’s Al Bayda province: Houthi-linked media

The United States and the United Kingdom have launched an air strike in Al-Sawmaah district of Al Bayda governorate, targeting a civilian car, according to Al Masirah, a television station run by the Houthi rebel group.

The report also said there were three US-UK air raids targeting the Al Faza area in the At Tuhayta district in Hodeidah province. The report did not elaborate on the results of the reported attacks.

US Central Command has not announced any new military operations in Yemen.

Vessel reports explosions in its vicinity off Yemen’s Hodeidah: UKMTO

A vessel 70 nautical miles (130km) southwest of Yemen’s Hodeidah port has reported multiple explosions in its vicinity, according to the UKMTO.

No damage was reported and the crew was safe, it added.

Malaysia’s Anwar calls for an ‘immediate arms embargo’ on Israel

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim called for urgent action to end Israel’s aggression in the Middle East during his speech at the joint summit of the Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Riyadh on Monday, according to Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry.

Anwar called for:

Aid groups say Israel missed US deadline to boost humanitarian help for Gaza

Israel has failed to meet the US demands to allow greater humanitarian access to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where conditions are worse than at any point in the 13-month-old war, international aid organisations said.

The Biden administration last month called on Israel to “surge” more food and other emergency aid into Gaza, giving it a 30-day deadline expiring on Tuesday. It warned that failure to comply could trigger US laws requiring it to scale back military support to Israel.

Israel has announced a series of steps towards improving the situation. But US officials recently signalled Israel isn’t doing enough, though they have not said if they will take any action against it.

Israel’s new foreign minister, Gideon Saar, appeared to downplay the deadline, telling reporters on Monday he was confident “the issue would be solved”. The Biden administration may have less leverage after the re-election of Trump, who was a staunch supporter of Israel in his first term.

Tuesday’s report, authored by eight international aid organisations, listed 19 measures of compliance with the US demands. It said Israel had failed to comply with 15 and only partially complied with four.

The report was co-signed by Anera, Care, MedGlobal, Mercy Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, Refugees International and Save the Children.

Israeli army claims aid delivered to northern Gaza’s Jabalia, Beit Hanoon

The Israeli army says hundreds of food and water packages have been delivered to northern Gaza’s Jabalia and Beit Hanoon areas by the Israeli government body overseeing humanitarian aid, COGAT, in cooperation with international aid organisations.

It claimed that 741 aid trucks had been allowed into northern Gaza via the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing since October.

We reported earlier that international aid organisations have accused Israel of failing to meet the US demands to allow greater humanitarian access to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where conditions are worse than at any point in the 13-month-old war.

Humanitarian experts and aid groups have long warned that the limited amount of aid trickling into Gaza is nowhere near enough. Before the war began last year, an average of 500 trucks carrying aid and other goods would cross into the Gaza Strip each day.

741 since October is an average of 17 per day... And that's all half filled trucks for 'security' reasons.

Israel claims to have opened new humanitarian aid crossing into Gaza

The Israeli army says it has opened a new land crossing “as part of the effort and commitment to increase the volume and routes of aid” into the Gaza Strip.

The Kisufim crossing, near Khan Younis, was made available for the “delivery of food, water, medical supplies, and shelter equipment to central and southern Gaza”, the army said in a statement.

The United States this week is set to decide on Israel’s progress towards improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza, after Washington gave its ally 30 days to implement a series of measures or risk restrictions on US military aid.

Last week, a UN report showed how civilians have borne the brunt of the Israeli siege on Gaza and highlighted the Israeli government’s failure to facilitate and ensure the entry of humanitarian aid, in breach of international law.

Nine wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza’s Nuseirat

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that nine Palestinians have been wounded and several others are missing after an Israeli attack on a house in the northwest of the Nuseirat refugee camp.

As we reported earlier, ground and air attacks killed at least 20 Palestinians in Nuseirat on Monday as Israeli tanks stormed the camp without warning.

Two Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Beit Hanoon

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that two Palestinians have been killed and others wounded in Israeli shelling on two houses in Beit Hanoon in the north of the Gaza Strip.

At least two killed in Israeli attack on Gaza’s Nuseirat

We’ve been covering an Israeli attack on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Earlier, we reported that at least nine people were wounded in the attack, and now our colleagues at Al Jazeera Mubasher and the Palestinian Information Center are reporting that at least two people were killed in the bombing of the Abu Odeh family home.

An unknown number of people are wounded and missing under the rubble, they said.

People not given time to evacuate homes before bombing

We have confirmed reports that many residential buildings in Beit Hanoon were bombed and flattened while people were still inside. They were not given enough time to evacuate these areas.

There’s a surge in attacks as the Israeli military pushes deeper its armoured vehicles and tanks into the areas in an attempt to force people out of Beit Hanoon.

For the past months, people in Beit Hanoon could not leave the area because the Israeli military was blocking Salah al-Din Street. As of today, there’s a sudden surge in the attacks, with many reports of people killed inside these residential homes.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military continued to target residential homes in Beit Lahiya as well. It’s the same story where people inside were not given enough time to leave.

In the central part of the Strip, a residential home was destroyed while people were still inside. Four people were found in the rubble, but many are still trapped under the huge pile in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

‘Unimaginable’: Killings and forced displacement continue in northern Gaza

What has been happening the past couple of days has been unimaginable – the mass killing and forced displacement.

In Beit Hanoon, the area has been under siege for more than a month – approximately 40 days. Families are displaced to schools and houses that have not been bombed. They survived all these weeks without any food.

Israeli forces started bombing and shelling Beit Lahiya and areas surrounding the shelters at midnight, forcing people to evacuate, with quadcopters and Israeli presence on the ground. Today, they forced people to leave the shelters and go to the south.

In the middle area, there was a group of Palestinians very close to an UNRWA clinic. Six Palestinians were killed by an Israeli drone.

Last night, a group of Palestinians were killed while they were sitting in a cafe – it’s not a real cafe, just a place where a person made a tent, put up some chairs and was offering hot drinks to Palestinians. They were also targeted in al-Mawasi, an area known as a safe humanitarian zone.

At least six people killed in Israeli attack near mosque in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah

An Israeli air strike has targeted an overcrowded area near Al Noor Mosque in the western part of Deir el-Balah city in central Gaza, killing at least six people, according to our team on the ground. At least 10 critically injured people were received by the American field hospital, our team said.

The latest killings brought the death toll in the Israeli attacks carried out across the Gaza Strip since dawn to 25.

Israeli strike hits tent camp in Gaza City

An Israeli strike has hit a tented encampment housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting. The air raid hit the area of the Gaza Sports Club, causing several injuries.

Hundreds of Palestinians forced to flee Gaza’s Beit Hanoon