In today's Israeli air strike, seven people were killed in a cafe near the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, Palestinian doctors said, bringing the death toll in Israeli attacks since Sunday evening to at least 37, Reuters reports.
In central Gaza, Israeli forces sent tanks into the Nuseirat camp from the west earlier on Monday, sparking panic among residents and displaced families as the advancing tanks opened fire.
Twenty people were killed in air and ground attacks in Nuseirat, one of eight historic refugee sites in the Gaza Strip, overnight and on Monday, including some in a tent camp, health officials at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat said.
Resident Zaik Mohamed said the incursion of the tanks took residents by surprise.
"Some people were unable to leave and remained trapped in their homes, pleading to be allowed out, while others ran with what they could carry as they fled," said Mohammed, who lives a kilometer from the targeted area. , to Reuters.
There has been no comment from Israel on Monday's violence.
Lebanese state media reported today an Israeli attack on a house in the northern region of Akar, with local officials claiming that it was an attack on the furthest place from the border between Lebanon and Israel, after the start of the Israel-Hezbollah war.
Israeli airstrikes mainly targeted Hezbollah strongholds in the east and south of Lebanon, and the southern suburbs of Beirut, while the north of the country was rarely a target.
The official Lebanese news agency NNA reported that a house in the village of Ain Yacoub in the north, about 150 kilometers from the Israeli border, was targeted.
Local official Roni al-Hage told AFP that displaced people lived in that house, and that it was Israel's attack on the northernmost point of Lebanon, since the beginning of the war in September.
He added that the rescue and clean-up operation continues, and the residents of a nearby village heard a loud explosion and the sirens of ambulances.
A video has been posted on social media purportedly showing the scene of the attack and a completely destroyed house as people remove the rubble with their bare hands and use their phones as flashlights.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sarr assessed today that the desire to establish a Palestinian state is not a realistic project now, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his commitment to Palestinian sovereignty.
New Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said today that there is "some progress" in efforts to end Israel's war with Lebanon's Hezbollah.
The spokesman of the extremist organization said, however, that no official proposal had been received and that his organization was ready to fight a long war if necessary.
The administration of US President Joseph Biden has been trying to broker a ceasefire for months, and there were reports that US envoy Amos Hochstein could return to the region in the coming days.
Minister Saar said any agreement would have to include enforcement mechanisms to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding its military infrastructure near the border.
"There is some progress on that. We are working with the Americans," Sar told reporters.
Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel on October 8, 2023, in solidarity with the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip, against whom Israel went to war the day before.
Since then, the conflict has escalated, with more than 3.100 people killed and 13.900 wounded, Lebanon's health ministry said.
The war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7 last year, with a surprise action by Hamas in which 1.200 people were killed in Israel in the south of Israel, most of them civilians, and about 250 were kidnapped and taken to Gaza.
More than 43.000 people have been killed in Israel's retaliation in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Authority, which does not distinguish between civilians and fighters, but says more than half of the dead are women and children.
Israel's new foreign minister also today appeared to play down the importance of the deadline for increasing humanitarian aid to Gaza, expressing confidence that it would be resolved.
In October, the Biden administration warned Israel to increase the amount of food and other urgently needed aid entering Gaza to 350 trucks a day or risk a cut in US military aid. The deadline to achieve this is this Sunday.
The amount of aid entering the war-torn territory fell in October to its lowest level since the first month of the war, with an average of only 57 trucks entering each day, according to Israel.
UN agencies say even less aid has actually been delivered because of Israeli restrictions, fighting and lawlessness that prevent them from taking aid to the Palestinian side of the border.
Sar said today that he is sure that an understanding can be reached with American friends and that issue can be resolved.
President Biden may have less influence on Israel pending Donald Trump's return to the White House in January.
Trump wholeheartedly supported Israel during his previous term. He announced that he would end the wars in the Middle East, but did not say how.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman today called on Israel to "refrain from attacking Iran's territory".
The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who is the de facto leader of the country, at today's summit of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Riyadh, said that Iran is a "sister country", which is a sign of the thawing of relations between the two powers in the Middle East, which have long supported opposing sides in the region. , especially in Syria and Yemen.
Israel is at war against the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip and against Hezbollah in Lebanon, two Islamist movements allied to Iran and Israel's archenemy.
In October, Israel bombed military facilities in Iran in retaliation for Iran's October 1 missile attack on Israel. Tehran said its attacks were in response to Israel's killing of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders.
In a series of reprisals, Israel warned Iran against any further attack, while Tehran vowed to retaliate strongly.
As a majority Shiite country, Iran and the Sunni monarchy of Saudi Arabia re-established diplomatic relations in March 2023 after a seven-year break, based on an agreement reached under the auspices of China.
In October, Saudi Arabia announced that it had conducted joint military exercises with the naval forces of Iran and other countries on the coast of the Sea of Oman.
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The Israeli army announced on its official Telegram channel that during operations in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, it found "a weapons cache containing surveillance equipment, drones, materials for the production of enemy equipment, explosive devices and dozens of mortar shells."
The post said that IDF soldiers "eliminated a number of terrorists".
They also claim that a cache of weapons was found "near the mosque and the hospital."
Hezbollah says it has not received any proposals for a ceasefire, despite Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar saying some progress has been made.
"So far, according to my information, nothing official has reached either Lebanon or us in this regard," Hezbollah's media office chief, Mohamad Afif, said at a press conference in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
"I believe that we are still in the phase of surveying the field and presenting initial ideas and proactive discussions, but for now there is nothing concrete," he added.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar told reporters in Jerusalem earlier that progress has been made in talks on a cease-fire in Lebanon, but that implementation is key.
Among other things, he said that the creation of a Palestinian state is not realistic, because it would be a "Hamas state", and that Israel is ready to end the war in Gaza when its goals are achieved.
The Israeli military said on the X network that 50 rockets were fired from Lebanon towards the upper and western Galilee.
They added that some of those missiles were intercepted, while some fell on the target area.
Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli forces demolished a mosque near Jabba, east of Jerusalem.
The witness told Vafa that the soldiers also demolished an abandoned house and several sheep pens with a bulldozer.
Netanyahu requests a postponement of testimony in the corruption case, citing the war as the reason.
Israeli media reports that Benjamin Netanyahu's legal team has filed a request to postpone the prime minister's testimony in the corruption trial.
The Times of Israel states that the request mentions recent major developments in the war, which prevented Netanyahu from preparing for his testimony.
His legal representatives, asking for a delay of two and a half months, said that "this short delay will allow the defense to adequately prepare for his testimony and will not jeopardize the public interest."
Also, there are continuing concerns about the impossibility of his court appearances. The prime minister's house was recently targeted by a Hezbollah drone.
The Israeli army announced the expansion of the so-called of the "humanitarian area" in the Gaza Strip, which has been under siege for more than a year.
Over 40.000 people were reported killed in that territory as a result of Israeli military actions during that period. According to a UN analysis based on verified data on deaths, almost 70 percent of war victims are women and children, which highlights the large number of civilian victims in the conflict, reports the Guardian.
The prosecutor's office in Taiwan announced that the investigation into the pagers that exploded in Lebanon in September was closed, noting that no citizens or companies from Taiwan were involved in the operation, reports Reuters.
Security sources previously said the pagers were branded by Taiwan-based company Gold Apollo, which claims it did not manufacture them. The Taiwanese government also said the pagers were not made in Taiwan.
"There is no evidence that any domestic manufacturers or individuals were complicit in the relevant explosions, violated terrorism financing laws or engaged in other illegal activities," prosecutors said in a statement, according to Reuters.
"No concrete evidence of criminal activity has been discovered in this case, nor have specific individuals been linked to any criminal activity, following a thorough investigation," it added.
The series of blasts, which killed dozens of people and injured thousands in Lebanon and Syria, were attributed to an Israeli intelligence operation against Hezbollah, although Israel has not formally claimed responsibility.
Omer Dostri, Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman, revealed to AFP yesterday that the Israeli prime minister, speaking during Sunday's cabinet meeting, said he had approved the operation.
Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli security forces have arrested at least 20 people in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since last night.
The agency states that as of October 7, 2023, Israel has detained more than 11.600 people from the occupied West Bank.
In addition, during an Israeli raid in the Jalazon refugee camp, north of Ramallah, one man was injured by fire from Israeli forces, and two people were arrested.
The Lebanese National News Agency reports that Israeli planes have again carried out airstrikes on locations in the south of the country during the night. There are still no reports of possible casualties.
Yemen's Houthi rebels, who are supported by Iran, today claimed responsibility for the attack on Israel, where according to the Israeli army, an intercepted missile from that country caused a fire. "Yemeni forces conducted an operation targeting the Nahal Sorek military base, southeast of Jaffa. The targeting was accurate and caused a fire near the target location," Houthi spokesman Jahja Sara said.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said five Palestinians, including a child, were injured by bullets fired by Israeli forces in clashes in Jalazon refugee camp, north of Ramallah.
Israeli firefighters said they were struggling to put out a fire west of Jerusalem in the Beit Shemesh area that was caused by projectile fragments or intercepted rockets.
"In parallel with extinguishing operations, firefighters are conducting additional inspections in the area to rule out the possibility of new fires and damage from interceptor/rocket fragments," the Jerusalem region fire department said.
This news comes after the Israeli military announced that it shot down a missile fired from Yemen and intercepted drones from Iraq.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), a coalition of various factions, has claimed responsibility for five drone attacks on military targets in Israel.
The IRI said it carried out drone strikes in the north and south of Israel in a series of Telegram posts.
They stated that their actions were "in support of our people in Palestine and Lebanon, and in response to the massacres committed by the occupying entity against civilians, including children, women and the elderly."
Earlier, the Israeli army announced that its air force had intercepted four drones from the east during the night.
Al Jazeera reports that an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp killed a journalist and his wife.
Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli strike hit a tent housing a displaced family in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least three people.
The attack late Sunday in the Nuseirat refugee camp wounded two children, aged 10, who were being treated for serious injuries at Al Aqsa Hospital in the nearby town of Deir Al Balah.
The Israeli military says it only targets militants and accuses them of hiding among civilians.
Palestinians reported heavy shelling late Sunday in the western areas of the Nuseirat camp.
At least 24 people were wounded and taken to Avda Hospital in Nuseirat, said Mohamed Muhareb, head of the hospital's emergency department.
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