Israel bombs Lebanon 145 times in a day, over a dozen killed in Gaza
- Israeli forces continue to pound Beirut’s Dahiyeh as Lebanese authorities report 145 Israeli attacks across the country over the past day.
- In Gaza, Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinians in predawn attacks on Rafah and the Bureij refugee camp, while in the occupied West Bank, masked Israeli settlers stormed the village of Beit Furik and set fire to Palestinian homes and vehicles.
- Lebanon’s Hezbollah continues to trade fire with Israel’s military, launching dozens of missiles and drones at Israeli military bases and hitting a synagogue in the city of Haifa.
- Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,799 Palestinians and wounded 103,601 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
- In Lebanon, at least 3,452 people have been killed and 14,664 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.
Dozens of casualties as Israeli forces attack Gaza school, barbershop
Israel’s attacks on Gaza included an assault on the UN-run Abu Assi school in the Shati refugee camp. Medical sources reported at least 10 Palestinians killed and 20 others injured, including women and children.
The school sheltered thousands of displaced Palestinians from northern areas like Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoon and Jabalia. Israeli forces continued to attack Beit Lahiya with nonstop shelling.
For more than 40 days, the northern Gaza Strip has been under siege, lacking access to food, water, medicine or aid. Israeli forces also targeted a barbershop in Gaza City, killing five, and attacked a family gathering in Khan Younis, killing five more.
The escalation in air raids, shelling, and drone attacks intensifies as the humanitarian situation in Gaza deteriorates.
Al Jazeera’s Caley Callahan reports:
Dozens of casualties as Israeli forces attack Gaza school, barbershop - 20m ago(07:30 GMT)
CAIR slams ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden over inaction in Gaza
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, has condemned the US president’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
CAIR said in a statement: “While the world witnesses daily atrocities by Israel in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon, ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden remains silent as the far-fight Netanyahu government uses American weapons and his administration’s support to slaughter civilians, destroy their homes and force their children to starve.
CAIR said its statement follows reports from Gaza of “dogs feeding on corpses, a prominent Palestinian doctor tortured to death in an Israeli prison, the killing of a Palestinian journalist in an Israeli drone attack, the Israeli burning of a Gaza school storing aid supplies, an Israeli massacre at a school in Gaza, illegal Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian homes, and Israeli field executions in northern Gaza”.
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More on Israeli attacks on Beirut
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli jets destroyed a 12-storey residential building in Chiyah in Dahiyeh, shortly after issuing more forced evacuation orders for the area.
NNA also reported “violent” Israeli raids on the neighbourhoods of Burj al-Barajneh and Hadath. The attack on Hadath hit near the vicinity of Saint George Hospital, it said.
As we’ve been reporting, Israel’s military has ramped up attacks on Beirut and southern Lebanon, carrying out 145 attacks on the country on Saturday.
We’ll bring you more information when we have it.
A Middle East Airlines aircraft approaching the runway of Beirut airport flies above plumes of smoke rising from the site of an Israeli attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs on November 16, 2024 [Ibrahim Amor/AFP] - 50m ago(07:00 GMT)
Gaza Civil Defense: ‘We are unable to help the people of Beit Lahiya’
Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Gaza rescue organisation, says it cannot reach the site of an attack on Beit Lahiya, north Gaza.
“The department received appeals from residents of a house bombed by the Israeli occupation in Beit Lahiya, but we cannot move to rescue them,” he said.
Two bombs hit a five-storey residential tower in the northern Gaza city, killing “tens” of people, according to medics.
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‘Tens’ killed in Israeli strike on Beit Lahiya
Our correspondent on the ground in Gaza, Hani Mahmoud, is reporting that the attack we reported earlier on the area in north Gaza hit a five-storey residential building hosting about 100 internally displaced Palestinians.
Witnesses told Al Jazeera that many people were killed, and medics told Reuters that “tens” of people were killed and wounded.
The number of dead remains unclear because an insufficient number of paramedics were able to reach the site of the attack, Mahmoud said.
We will bring you more on this shortly.
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Israeli forces target central and northern Gaza, killing dozens
In the central area, the explosions did not stop. There are explosions happening in the background and in the Nuseirat and Bureij areas.
Here where we are at Al-Aqsa Hospital, there are 17 killed Palestinians in the morgue; they’re waiting for coffins to bury them, but there is a shortage of coffins across the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli forces targeted a house in Nuseirat, where at least six Palestinians were killed, among them are four women and a child.
According to civil defence teams, there are members of the same family still trapped under the rubble.
Israeli forces targeted another house in Bureij, where at least 10 Palestinians were killed. The families say there are more family members trapped under the rubble.
There was another air strike in Beit Lahiya. According to medical sources, 15 Palestinians have been killed, dozens are wounded.
Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoon, and Jabalia have been besieged for more than 40 days, without food, water, medicine or aid, and under constant bombing, shelling and Israeli drones and quadcopters.
It's Trump's world now, as he says Israel can do whatever it takes.
ReplyDeleteI have no sympathy for Lebanon, which hosts Hezbollah daily attacking Israel with rockets.
There are over 30,000 Israelis who have been ejected from their homes due to this.
Don't cry yeah, when Israel punches back, hard,