The situation of Palestinian civilians trapped in the Israeli blockade and exposed to attacks in the north of the Gaza Strip is intolerable, said the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) Antonio Guterres.
In the written statement of Guterres' spokesman, Stefan Dujaric, it is stated that Guterres pointed out that he was "shocked" by the extent of the destruction in the north of Gaza.
Guterres said that Israel has rejected efforts to deliver humanitarian aid and that the lives of many people are in danger.
He, pointing out that the postponement of the polio vaccination campaign in the region puts the lives of thousands of children at risk, warned that the Israeli attacks on the north of the Gaza Strip have made the living conditions of the Palestinian population there unsustainable.
Guterres again called for an immediate ceasefire, stating that the situation of Palestinian civilians trapped in northern Gaza is intolerable.
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The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced today that at least eight people were killed, including a child, and 25 were wounded in an Israeli attack on the outskirts of the city of Sidon in the south.
Earlier reports stated that two people were killed in the attack on a densely populated area in the vicinity of Sidon, where families displaced from the southern parts of the country had taken refuge.
An Agence France-Presse correspondent reported that a building was targeted and an apartment was destroyed in the area, which was attacked for the first time since the outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanon's pro-Iranian Hezbollah in September.
Hezbollah said it fired rockets at a military base in northern Israel, a day after it declared several areas in the region "legitimate targets" due to the presence of Israeli soldiers.
Extremist Hezbollah said it targeted "a military industrial base north of Haifa with a barrage of rockets," after warning to evacuate large parts of northern Israel.
The Israeli army earlier called on residents of 14 Lebanese villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate immediately and move north of the Awali River, which flows from the Bekah Valley to the Mediterranean Sea.
The military spokesman for the Arabic language, Avihay Adrae, announced on Platform X that "Hezbollah elements, facilities or weapons are nearby" and that those who remain risk being killed.
The Israeli military has repeatedly ordered evacuations during attacks in Lebanon over the past month.
"For your safety you must evacuate immediately from your homes. To ensure your own safety you must evacuate without delay," wrote an Israeli military spokesman on Platform X, adding that it was forbidden to go south because it would be life-threatening.
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The Israeli army today called on the residents of 14 villages in the south of Lebanon to immediately evacuate and move north of the Awali River, Reuters reports.
At least three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Zawtar Al Sharqi in southern Lebanon, the country's health ministry said today, adding that the airstrike on Marjayoun the previous day resulted in five deaths and one injury, Reuters reports.
An Israeli airstrike on a house in Jabalia killed several people and wounded others on Sunday morning, Palestinian medics said, as Israeli forces stepped up their campaign in the northern Gaza Strip, Reuters reports.
Medical sources said the new attack damaged several houses in Jabalia, the largest of eight historic refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, which has been the focus of an Israeli military offensive for more than three weeks.
Israel says its forces have returned to northern Gaza more than a year after the war with Hamas to eliminate fighters from the militant group who have regrouped there.
On Friday, it was said that three Israeli soldiers were killed in the fighting in the north of the enclave.
The Israeli army said it had "eliminated more than 40 terrorists" in the Jabalia area in the past 24 hours, as well as dismantling infrastructure and finding "large amounts of military equipment."
In addition, Israel said its forces had eliminated a "terrorist cell" during close combat in central Gaza.
Meanwhile, the death toll from an Israeli airstrike late Saturday on a residential neighborhood in the nearby town of Beit Lahia rose to 40 on Sunday morning, the official Palestinian news agency VAFA said.
The Israeli military said it carried out a "precision strike using precision munitions on Hamas terrorists inside a structure in the Beit Lahiya area of the Gaza Strip and that a number of terrorists were hit in the strike.
They added that the large number of victims mentioned in media reports is not consistent with the type of ammunition used in the precision attack.
Israeli military strikes on the towns of Jabalia, Beit Hanun and Beit Lahia in northern Gaza have so far killed around 800 people during the three-week offensive, the Gaza health ministry said.
Palestinian health officials said the ongoing Israeli air and ground offensive is paralyzing the health system in northern Gaza and preventing medical teams from reaching bombed sites.
The civil emergency service announced two days ago that their operations had been suspended after Israeli forces detained and wounded several of their members and bombed the only fire truck.
Hamas-led fighters attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1.200 people and taking about 250 hostages in Gaza, according to Israeli figures.
The death toll from Israel's retaliation in Gaza is approaching 43.000, and the densely populated enclave is in ruins.
Four Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon, where Israel is fighting the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, the Israeli army said today, Reuters reports.
In Israel today, two official ceremonies are held on the occasion of the first anniversary of the attack, counting according to the Hebrew calendar, in which the Palestinian extremists led by Hamas invaded the southern Israeli territory, which caused the war in the Gaza Strip.
A military ceremony was organized at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Israeli leaders at 11.00:14.00 a.m. local time. At XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. a second ceremony will be held in memory of the civilian victims of the Hamas attack, according to Israeli media.
Israeli flags were flown at half-mast at parliament and official institutions at 6.29:1.200 a.m. when the attack began more than a year ago. In that attack, about 250 people were killed in Israel, mostly civilians, and more than XNUMX were kidnapped and taken to Gaza.
"This war of a nation that wants to be free on its land has a high price. Today we remember all those who fell on the day the war broke out and in the year of struggle that followed," said Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi.
Two ceremonies, one official and one organized by the families of the victims, were held a year after the attack, but the government chose another date according to the Hebrew calendar, to commemorate October 7, 2023.
At least 765 soldiers have died in the fighting, including soldiers on the northern front on the border with Lebanon and in the neighboring country where the Israeli army has been waging a war since late September against the extremist Hezbollah.
That pro-Iranian organization started firing rockets at Israel after the attack on the southern Israeli territory from Gaza in support of Hamas.
In the Israeli revenge offensive in Gaza with the aim of destroying Hamas, 42.924 Palestinians died, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health there, which the UN considers reliable. (Beta)
At least 40 Palestinians were killed and 80 injured in Israeli airstrikes on several houses in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on Saturday, the official Palestinian news agency VAFA said today, citing medical sources, reports Reuters.
Palestinian officials said this morning that at least 22 people were killed in Israeli attacks on northern Gaza.
The Gaza Strip Health Ministry said 11 women and two children were among those killed late last night in attacks on several houses and buildings in Beit Lahia in the north.
At least 15 people were wounded and, as stated, the number of victims could rise.
The Israeli military said it carried out precision strikes against extremists in a building in Beit Lahia and took steps to avoid injuring civilians.
She disputed, as she said, "the figures published by the media", but did not reveal details or evidence for her balance sheet.
Israel launched a major air and ground offensive in northern Gaza three weeks ago after it said Hamas extremists had regrouped there.
Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands have fled to Gaza City in the latest wave of displacement in the year-long war.
Israel continues to carry out daily attacks across Gaza even though it is also at war with the Lebanese Hezbollah extremists in the north.
On Saturday, Israeli warplanes attacked Iran, which backs both Palestinian Hamas and Hezbollah in response to a ballistic missile attack in early October.
All of these conflicts have heightened fears of an all-out war pitting Israel against the US and Iran's extremist allies, which include the Houthi rebels in Yemen and armed groups in Syria and Iraq.
Israel says it targets only extremists in Gaza attacks and blames Hamas for civilian casualties because the extremists fight in densely populated areas.
The Israeli military rarely comments on individual strikes, which often kill women and children.
The war began on October 7, 2023, on this day according to the Hebrew calendar, when Hamas extremists broke through the border fence and suddenly invaded southern Israel. They killed about 1.200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped more than 250.
About 100 hostages are still in Gaza, but a third are believed to be dead.
In the Israeli revenge offensive, more than 42.000 Palestinians were killed, according to the local Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in the balance of casualties, but says that more than half of the dead are women and children.
The offensive devastated a large part of the impoverished Palestinian territory, and the conflict displaced about 90 percent of the population, often multiple times.
Hyades of people are now living in overcrowded tents along the coast and aid organizations are warning that hunger is running rampant.
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