Six people were killed today in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced.
"The air attack of the Israeli enemy on the town of Beit Lif resulted in the death of five people and the wounding of five more," the statement said.
The ministry added that another person was killed in a drone attack on the city of Deir Serian.
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The Israeli army announced today that it helped UN forces repel an attack in Syria, on the border with the Golan.
"Armed individuals attacked a UN post in the Hader region of Syria," the army said in a statement, referring to the town on the edge of the UN-controlled buffer zone in the Golan.
It added that the Israeli army helped UN forces repel the attack.
The Israeli army said it had reinforced its forces in this area, which Israel captured during the 1967 Six-Day War.
In 1974, UN forces were sent to the buffer zone to monitor the ceasefire.
As rebels led by radical Islamists have been on the offensive in Syria for more than a week, Israel's military has confirmed it will continue to operate "to protect Israel and its citizens".
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Israel's military said on Saturday it had killed a Hezbollah fighter in southern Lebanon who posed a threat to its troops, adding that it was operating within a ceasefire agreement while remaining deployed to respond to threats against Israel.
Along with the statement, the Israeli army released a video of the operation from the air, which shows how the motorcycle was shot from the air, which caused the motorcycle to catch fire.
Hezbollah did not immediately comment on the incident.
At least 44.664 Palestinians have been killed and 105.976 wounded in the Israeli military offensive on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the Gaza Ministry of Health announced today, Reuters reports.
At least 20 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza today, local health officials said, while Qatar expressed hope for new momentum in efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Hamas movement, reports Reuters.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the reported attacks in the Gaza city of Rafah.
At least eight of the dead were civilians, according to citizens and doctors.
It was not clear whether any other fighters were killed, and Reuters could not independently verify the figures.
Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said that Qatar is cooperating on the Gaza issue with the administration of the future US President of the United States of America (US) Donald Trump, after a new momentum was felt for negotiations on a ceasefire after the elections in the US. according to Reuters.
Trump's Middle East envoy traveled to Qatar and Israel to launch diplomatic pressure on the US president-elect for a ceasefire and hostage-free deal ahead of his inauguration on January 20, a source familiar with the talks told Reuters on Thursday.
The war in Gaza has raged for more than 14 months, with much of the enclave devastated and more than 44.000 Palestinians killed, according to Gaza health authorities, as Israeli forces continue their drive to destroy Hamas and rescue hostages taken by the militant group.
The deadliest Israeli-Palestinian violence in decades began when Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1.200 people and taking more than 250 hostages to Gaza.
In the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian at a checkpoint, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced.
Police said he was shot by security after he threw firecrackers at the forces there and a knife was found in his possession.
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip called on the international community to intervene to stop Israeli aggression against the health sector in the Palestinian enclave.
The Ministry of Health appealed to the international community, human rights and health groups and the International Committee of the Red Cross to intervene immediately to stop what they said was brutal Israeli aggression against the health system, its staff, patients and infrastructure.
As Anadolia reports, the Ministry's announcement states that the Israeli army is blowing up hospitals and killing those inside in front of the eyes of the whole world.
"The Kamal Advan Hospital in the north of Gaza is facing a new war crime, because the Israeli occupation forces are committing various forms of killing and violence inside and around the hospital," the Ministry said.
As they added, only 17 hospitals in Gaza are partially working out of the 36 that were working before the start of the Israeli attacks, and the main reason is the lack of medical supplies, medicines and fuel.
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