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Israeli strikes kill 143 across Gaza, more than 77 in Lebanon

By Alastair Mccready and Zaheena Rasheed

Published On 30 Oct 202430 Oct 2024

• Israel continues deadly strikes on southern Lebanon, with many women and children among the 15 people killed in the latest attacks in Sarafand and Haret Saida near Sidon city.
• At least 143 Palestinian people were killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza on Tuesday, with 132 of those killed in the besieged north of the war-torn territory, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
• Media in Israel report that at least 33 Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting in southern Lebanon since the start of the month amid Israel’s ground offensive into Lebanese territory.
• In Gaza, at least 43,061 people have been killed and 101,223 wounded in Israeli attacks
• In Lebanon, at least 2,787 people have been killed and 12,772 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began, with 77 killed in strikes across the country on Tuesday alone.

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    Nour Odeh

  Reporting from Amman, Jordan

  Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

  The Israeli army announced the deaths of four soldiers, including an officer, in Jabalia.

  They died from an explosion in a house that was booby-trapped. The Israeli army has been encircling Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and the rest of northern Gaza for over 23 days and they have suffered casualties during that period.

  Also, the Israeli military announced the death of a soldier who died from wounds sustained on the northern front, in battles in southern Lebanon.

  These numbers continue to rise and over 600 have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the ground offensive, and over 900 soldiers injured just in the recent past period of the assault on Lebanon.

  This all comes at a time when the Israeli Knesset is discussing a new conscription law. The Israeli right wing coalition is fighting to stay together as they try to get as many votes as they can for a law that would still exempt religious youth from draft into military service.

  This is a very controversial bill in Israel and it had threatened to unravel the government.

  

  Israeli police remove ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth blocking a road to protest their military recruitment in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, in July 2024 [File: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
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  Residents of Lebanon’s Sidon say Israel gave no warning before deadly attack

  We’ve been covering an Israeli attack on the suburb of Haret Saida on the outskirts of Sidon that killed at least seven people.

  People there say the Israeli military gave no warnings before the assault on Tuesday night.

  “We were sitting and all of a sudden we heard a missile, when it hit the building, it came down, then a second missile hit and a second building came down and the one next to it too,” said Ahmed al-Teryaqi, a resident of Sidon. “They have no mercy and no faith.”

  Lebanese health officials say the Israeli attack also wounded more than 20 people.

  As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces also went on to attack the southern Lebanese town of Sarafand, killing at least 10 others.

  

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  Israeli rockets hit residential building near Sidon without any warning

   
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  UN’s Middle East envoy condemns ‘appalling’ Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya

  Tor Wennesland said he was appalled by Israel’s attack that killed at least 93 people, including 25 children, in Beit Lahiya early on Tuesday.

  “This horrific strike is yet another in a deadly series of recent mass casualty incidents, alongside a massive displacement campaign, in the north of Gaza that raises serious concerns about violations of international humanitarian law,” the UN’s envoy for the Middle East Peace Process said in a statement.

  “I unequivocally condemn the widespread killing and injury of civilians in Gaza, and the endless displacement of the population in Gaza,” he said. “This endless spiral of death and destruction must end immediately”.

  As we’ve been reporting, Israel has continued its bombardment of Beit Lahiya despite the condemnation, killing at least 19 others in a fresh attack late on Tuesday.

  

  Palestinian first responders remove a body from the rubble of a building following an Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 29, 2024 [AFP]