A wave of Israeli attacks on eastern and southern Lebanon killed at least 31 people, the Ministry of Health announced.
Twenty people died in the attacks on the Balbek-Hermel region, including 11 in the settlement of Knajseh. Another 14 people were wounded.
In the south, Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people, including six rescuers in an attack on the village of Deir Kanun and five people in the village of Hawai in southern Lebanon.
Qatar's foreign ministry denied media reports that it had withdrawn from mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas, but added that it had "suspended" its efforts until all sides showed "willingness and seriousness" to end the war.
In a statement on X, ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari said Qatar informed relevant parties 10 days ago of its intentions.
Al Ansari also said that reports regarding the Hamas political office in Doha were false, stating that "the main objective of that office in Qatar is to be a channel of communication between the interested parties."
The Lebanese Ministry of Health said that Israeli attacks in the south of the country killed at least 11 people, including six rescuers.
Israeli attacks killed at least 3.136 people and wounded 13.979 people in Lebanon, the Reuters news agency reported.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported 19 deaths on Friday.
Tonight, several areas in Lebanon were under Israeli attack.
The Jerusalem Post reported that the Israeli army was attacking Tyre, Baalbek and southern Lebanon after rocket warning sirens sounded across northern Israel earlier in the day.
Doctors, quoted by the Palestinian news agency Wafa, said 40 people had been killed across Gaza since dawn, including 24 in the northern part.
These include four people killed east of Gaza City, including two journalists, four people killed in a house in Beit Lahia, two people killed in a tent at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al Balah, and five people killed in a tent in Abasan near Khan Yunis.
Israel claims that reports warning of a possible famine in Gaza are exaggerated, and that the country's military claims that the independent Famine Review Committee (FRC) is relying on unreliable data.
"Unfortunately, researchers continue to rely on partial, biased data and superficial sources with vested interests," the military said in a statement, according to Reuters reports.
In a rare warning on Friday, the FRC stated that there is a high probability of imminent famine in parts of northern Gaza and that urgent measures are needed by the conflicting parties to alleviate the catastrophic situation, the Guardian reports.
Hamas may be forced to close its offices in Qatar after the US told the small Gulf state it was unacceptable for the militant Islamist group to have a base there, Reuters reports, although a senior Hamas official told AFP they had received no indication that something like that is coming up.
Qatar, a key US partner in the Middle East, has provided political sanctuary to Hamas for more than a decade and allows many of the organization's senior leaders to live there.
Reuters reported late on Friday that it had reached the aforementioned, but it has not yet been officially confirmed.
"After rejecting repeated offers to release the hostages, Hamas leaders should no longer be welcome in the capitals of any US partner. We made that clear to Qatar after Hamas rejected another offer to release the hostages a few weeks ago," a senior official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A senior Hamas official told AFP today that the militant group had received no indication from Qatar that it should leave the country, where its political office has been based for years.
"Attacks by the Israeli enemy on the city of Tire killed seven people, including two girls, and injured 46 others," the Lebanese health ministry said, adding that body parts had been found that would be "identified by DNA testing."
On Friday, the ministry reported three deaths and 30 injuries in Israeli attacks.
Today, the Iranian authorities warned of the danger of the war spreading outside the Middle East, where Israel is at war in the Gaza Strip against the Palestinian movement Hamas, and in Lebanon against the Hezbollah movement.
"The world must know that if the war spreads, its harmful effects will not be limited to the Middle East region," Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi warned in a speech broadcast on Iranian television.
A sworn enemy of Iran, Israel is at war with the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, two movements allied with Tehran, which is pushing for a ceasefire on those two fronts.
"Insecurity and instability can spread to other regions, even very distant ones," said Aragchi, whose country has also been targeted by Israeli attacks.
On October 26, Israeli planes attacked military facilities in Iran in retaliation for Iran's missile launch into Israel on October 1.
Israel warned Iran not to retaliate, while Tehran promised to respond.
Ali Larijani, an adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said Thursday that Iran should avoid reacting "instinctively" to the Oct. 26 attack, lest it "fall into the trap" of Israel.
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The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced today that at least 44 people died in the previous 24 hours.
In the announcement of the Ministry of the Palestinian movement Hamas, it is written that the total number of people killed during the war with Israel increased to 43.552 in more than a year.
The number of wounded since the beginning of the war started by the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 has reached 102.765 people.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians under siege for a month in the northernmost part of the Gaza Strip, where Israel does not allow food to arrive, are saving their last lentils and flour to survive, and some are risking their lives by venturing into the ruins of destroyed homes for canned food.
Thousands have barely left the area, hungry and emaciated, to Gaza City, where they feel it is a little better. One hospital reports thousands of children suffering from malnutrition. One doctor said that she treated a pregnant woman who weighed less than 40 kilograms.
"They are freezing us out to force us to leave our homes," said Mohamed Arkuk, whose family of eight is determined to stay in the north under Israeli siege. "We will die here in our homes," he said.
The desperation of the population is not abating even though next week is approaching the deadline of the 30-day ultimatum given by the US government to Israel to release humanitarian aid to Gaza or there will be restrictions on US funding for its military.
The US says Israel must allow at least 350 trucks a day to enter Gaza with food and other necessities. In October, an average of 57 trucks entered Gaza per day, and in the first week of November, 81 per day.
The United Nations says the number is even lower - 37 trucks a day during October. The UN says Israeli military operations and general lawlessness are preventing people from getting food, and hundreds of trucks are stuck at the border.
Food is reaching Gaza City, but as of Thursday, nothing has entered the cities in the north, which has been going on for 30 days, and there are 70.000 people there, said Louise Watridge, a spokeswoman for the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA.
Palestinians in the north described to The Associated Press the desperate daily struggle to find food, water and safety as Israeli attacks raze buildings to the ground, sometimes killing entire families.
Arkuk said he goes out at night to search bombed buildings: "Sometimes you find a half-empty bag of flour, canned food and lentils."
His family relies on the help of others who are at school in Jabalia, but even there food is running out.
"We are like dogs and cats looking for food in the ruins," said Um Saber, a widow.
She said she and her six children had to flee a school shelter in Beit Lahia when Israel attacked it, and now live in her father-in-law's house, with a meager supply of lentils and pasta that they share with 40 other people, mostly women and children.
Ahmed Abu Avda, a 28-year-old father of three who lives with 25 relatives in a house in Jabalia, said they have one meal a day of lentils with bread, but divided so that there is first for the children.
"Sometimes we don't eat at all," he said.
Lubna, a 38-year-old mother of five, left her food behind when she fled her home from the attack and fire in Jabalija.
"We escaped by some miracle," she said in the town of Beit Lahija, where they are now.
Her husband was collecting flour from destroyed houses as Israeli forces retreated around a nearby hospital. Kamal said that the flour is moldy, so they are sifting it.
There is not enough food even for several hundred thousand people in the city of Gaza. Most of the city was razed to the ground after months of Israeli bombing and shelling.
Dr. Rana Soboh, a nutrition specialist at Gaza City Hospital, said she sees about 350 cases of moderate to severe acute malnutrition every day.
"You can see their bones, their eyes are sunken", she said and added that many have problems with concentration: "You repeat something several times, so that they understand". Even before the siege in the north, the Patient's Friend Hospital had a flood of malnourished children - more than 4.780 in September and 1.100 in July, hospital chief Ahmad Eskiek said.
Dr. Soboh said that the staff receives calls from neighboring towns for help: "But what can we do? We have nothing."
She worked at Kamal Advan Hospital in the north, but fled with her family to Gaza City. Now they live with 22 people in her uncle's two-room apartment. On Thursday, she had a piece of bread for breakfast, and later some lentils.
As the winter rains approach, the newcomers set up tents wherever they can. About 1.500 people are in the UN school, which is already badly damaged and "could collapse at any moment," UNRWA spokeswoman Watridge said.
With the toilets destroyed, people are using the corner of one classroom, and urine is "flowing down the walls of the school," she said.
Others in Gaza City are moving into the ruins of buildings, spreading tarps between layers of collapsed concrete, she said, adding, "it's the corpse of the city."
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Two Israeli attacks on Gaza today killed at least 13 people, including women and children, Palestinian medical officials said.
A school-turned-shelter in the eastern neighborhood of Tufa in Gaza City was hit, killing at least six people, including two journalists, a pregnant woman and a child, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
The Israeli military said the target of the attack was a fighter from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.
Seven more people were killed when an Israeli bomb fell on a tent in the town of Khan Yunis where displaced people were taking shelter, the local hospital said.
Two women and a child were said to be among the dead.
Israel announced today that 11 trucks of humanitarian aid have reached the refugee camp in Jabalia, which is the first time since the beginning of the war that humanitarian aid has reached northern Gaza.
Israel's new offensive focuses on Jabalia, a densely populated refugee camp that Israel says is used by Hamas as an army base.
Other areas affected by the new war operation are Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, located north of Gaza City.
The UN estimates that tens of thousands of people remain in that area.
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The north of the Gaza Strip is at risk of starvation due to the intensification of Israeli army operations and the almost complete cessation of food aid, according to a UN report today.
It warns of the "imminent and high probability of famine, due to the rapid deterioration of the situation in the Gaza Strip."
"The thresholds of hunger may have already been crossed or will be in the near future," the report assesses.
A previous report released on October 17 estimated that some 345.000 Gazans will face hunger at "catastrophic" levels between November and April 2025, which is about 16 percent of the population.
Israeli forces launched a major, high-intensity operation in the northern Gaza Strip last month, reportedly seeking to prevent the Islamist movement Hamas from reforming its fighting units.
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