Israel’s war on Gaza: New air strikes launched on Lebanon
- At least one civilian killed, 17 wounded in new attacks by Israeli forces in southern and eastern Lebanon. Concerns over a full-scale war in the Middle East grow as Hezbollah declares a “battle of reckoning” with Israel.
- Israeli forces pound Gaza, killing a mother and four of her children, in an attack on Deir el-Balah, and 10 more Palestinians in two separate attacks on schools-turned-shelters.
- World leaders and press freedom groups condemned Israel’s decision to send in heavily armed soldiers to shut down Al Jazeera’s bureau in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian suffering to increase as winter approaches
The Israeli army campaign has left Gaza’s civil infrastructure destroyed and land that can’t withstand extreme weather conditions, especially with winter around the corner.
The displaced families here have been going through one of the worst humanitarian conditions and now rainwater is entering their makeshift tents.
They have been forced to take shelter close to Gaza’s beaches. The suffering is immense.
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People in Beirut receiving calls for evacuation
People in Beirut are also receiving text messages, purportedly from the Israeli army, asking them to evacuate their locations quickly, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) is reporting.
Minister of Information Ziad Makary received a call with a voicemail left on his phone, urging the building be evacuated, the agency said.
On Saturday, an Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut killed 45 people, including a senior Hezbollah commander, and wounded 66.
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Lebanese media now report that in addition to the one civilian killed in Israeli attacks across eastern and southern Lebanon, 17 people have been wounded.
Israeli jets launched more than 80 air raids within 30 minutes early this morning.
A Lebanese shepherd was killed and six people were injured, including two family members, in an attack in Bodai in eastern Lebanon, state media reported.
The Health Ministry said 11 more people were wounded in another strike in Aitaroun, southern Lebanon.
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Israeli warnings are psychological warfare
Israeli warnings are a classic example of psychological warfare that is carried out in other areas as well.
We’ve seen similar things in Gaza and the West Bank. Now we’re seeing it in Lebanon.
They issue these warnings, which are really intended to imply to civilians that their leaders, people fighting on their side, and people surrounding them are using them as human shields.
This is an accusation that the Israeli army has put up against Hamas in the past, and against armed groups in the West Bank.
It is part and parcel of what Israel does. It masks its own aggression, tactics and military prowess in this cocoon of the idea that the other side is using the population that Israel is killing as human shields, whether that is true or not.
And Israel has shown no differentiation in its own military acts in the past anytime it’s come across a civilian population.
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South Lebanon residents receive calls to move away from Hezbollah sites
Residents of southern Lebanon are receiving phone calls from a Lebanese number ordering them to immediately move away from any post used by Hezbollah, Reuters is reporting.
In a televised statement earlier, an Israeli military spokesperson issued a similar warning and said it was being “distributed in Arabic on all networks and platforms in Lebanon”.
The Israeli army has been telling Lebanese civilians to “move away” from Hezbollah sites it plans to target and as the Israeli military said it will carry out more “extensive and precise” strikes against Hezbollah. It was the first such warning issued to Lebanese people by Israel’s military since the war in Gaza erupted nearly a year ago.
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Rocket hits area in Lebanon previously not targeted
A rocket hit an uninhabited mountainside east of the Lebanese port city of Byblos, according to Lebanon’s state media and a resident Reuters spoke to.
The area was not hit previously by air strikes in months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
These tit-for-tat attacks have intensified in recent days, with Israel carrying out air raids across a wider region today, as we have been reporting.
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Israeli drone attack wounds Palestinians in Khan Younis
Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that many Palestinians, including children, were wounded in an Israeli drone attack on the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis.
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Israeli forces continue raids, demolitions in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have continued their raids on the village of Haris, west of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank, for the second day, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
The head of the Haris village council Omar Samara told Wafa that Israeli soldiers harassed civilians and searched their homes, arresting about 70 people last night, most of them children.
Samara also said the army stormed schools, arresting a number of students and teachers.
Elsewhere, Israeli forces also demolished a house in al-Jiftlik village, north of Jericho. The two-storey house belonged to Nael Mustafa Bani Odeh and was built more than 15 years ago.
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