Israel's Latest Strikes On Northern Gaza Leave At Least 87 Palestinians Dead Or Missing | rssama.com

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes connected aggregate homes successful nan bluish Gaza Strip overnight and into Sunday near astatine slightest 87 group dormant aliases missing, nan territory’s Health Ministry said.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says 87 group are dormant aliases missing aft Israeli strikes connected aggregate homes successful bluish Gaza.

It said different 40 group were wounded successful nan strikes connected nan municipality of Beit Lahiya, which was among nan first targets of Israel’s crushed invasion astir a twelvemonth ago. The Israeli subject said it carried retired a precise onslaught connected a Hamas target.

Israel has been carrying retired a large-scale cognition successful bluish Gaza for nan past 2 weeks, saying Hamas has regrouped there. Palestinian officials opportunity hundreds of group person been killed and that nan wellness assemblage successful nan northbound is connected nan verge of collapse.

The documents, attributed to nan U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency and marked apical secret, bespeak that Israel was moving subject assets successful spot to behaviour a subject onslaught successful consequence to Iran’s ballistic rocket attack connected Oct. 1.

The U.S. officials said connected nan information of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk nan matter publicly.

The U.S. is urging Israel to property for a cease-fire successful Gaza pursuing nan sidesplitting of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar past week. But neither Israel nor Hamas has shown immoderate renewed liking successful specified a deal, aft months of negotiations sputtered to a halt successful August.

Lebanese service says 3 soldiers killed successful Israeli strike

Black fume billows from a confederate suburb successful Beirut pursuing Israel's dense bombardment connected nan Hezbollah stronghold, connected Oct. 19, 2024 successful Lebanon.

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Iran supports Hamas and nan Hezbollah militant group successful Lebanon, wherever a twelvemonth of escalating tensions boiled complete into all-out warfare past month. Israel sent crushed troops into Lebanon astatine nan commencement of October.

The Lebanese service said 3 of its soldiers were killed successful an Israeli onslaught connected their conveyance successful confederate Lebanon. There was nary contiguous remark from nan Israeli subject connected Sunday’s strike.

Lebanon’s service has mostly kept to nan sidelines successful nan warfare betwixt Israel and nan Hezbollah. The subject is simply a respected institution successful Lebanon but is not powerful capable to enforce its will connected Hezbollah aliases take sides nan state from an Israeli invasion.

On Saturday, a drone targeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house, causing nary casualties. It wasn’t clear if nan location was hit. The subject said Hezbollah fired astir 160 projectiles into Israel connected Sunday. There were nary contiguous reports of casualties.

Israel has meantime ramped up strikes connected confederate neighborhoods of Beirut known arsenic nan Dahiyeh, a crowded residential area. Hezbollah has a beardown beingness there, but it is besides location to ample numbers of civilians and group unaffiliated pinch nan militant group.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, has called civilian casualties successful Lebanon “far excessively high” successful nan Israel-Hezbollah war and urged Israel to standard backmost immoderate strikes, particularly successful and astir Beirut.

Medics pass of a catastrophic business successful Gaza

Palestinians astatine Kamal Adwan Hospital mourn complete nan bodies of relatives who were killed successful an Israeli airstrike connected bluish Gaza's Beit Lahia, connected Oct. 19, 2024.

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Among nan dormant from nan strikes successful Beit Lahiya were 2 parents and their 4 children, and a woman, her boy and her daughter-law and their 4 children, according to Raheem Kheder, a medic. He said nan onslaught flattened a multi-story building and astatine slightest 4 neighboring houses.

The Israeli subject said it utilized precise munitions against a Hamas target and rejected casualty figures published by nan Hamas-run government’s media office, which is abstracted from nan Health Ministry. It said nan area is an progressive warfare area and that it is trying to debar harming civilians.

Mounir al-Bursh, head wide of nan Health Ministry, said nan flood of wounded from nan strikes compounded “an already catastrophic business for nan wellness attraction system” successful bluish Gaza, successful a station connected X.

Doctors Without Borders, nan world kindness known by its French acronym MSF, called connected Israeli forces “to instantly extremity their attacks connected hospitals successful North Gaza” aft nan Health Ministry said Israeli troops had fired connected 2 hospitals complete nan weekend.

The subject said it was operating adjacent 1 of nan hospitals but had not fired straight astatine it, and that it was looking into nan different incident.

“The ever-worsening escalation of unit and non-stop Israeli subject operations that we person been witnessing complete nan past 2 weeks successful bluish Gaza person horrifying consequences,” said Anna Halford, an emergency coordinator for MSF.

“When hospitals are attacked, their infrastructure destroyed, and nan energy trim off, nan lives of patients and aesculapian unit are nether threat.”

Internet connectivity went down successful bluish Gaza precocious Saturday and had not yet been restored by midday Sunday, making it difficult to stitchery accusation astir nan strikes and complicating rescue efforts.

Large Israeli cognition successful bluish Gaza enters 3rd week

A Palestinian boy whose caput is bandaged pinch an IV successful his hands sits connected nan sidewalk extracurricular Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital aft an Israeli onslaught connected bluish Gaza's Jabalia camp, connected Oct. 19, 2024.

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Israel has been carrying retired a awesome cognition successful Jabaliya, besides successful bluish Gaza, for nan past 2 weeks. The subject says it launched nan cognition against Hamas militants who had regrouped there.

Over nan people of nan war, Israeli forces person many times returned to Jabaliya, a densely populated municipality exile campy making love backmost to nan 1948 warfare surrounding Israel’s creation.

The northbound has already suffered nan heaviest demolition of nan war, and has been encircled by Israeli forces since precocious past year, pursuing nan deadly Hamas’ onslaught connected Israel.

Israel ordered nan full organization of nan bluish 3rd of Gaza, including Gaza City, to evacuate to nan southbound successful nan opening weeks of nan warfare and reiterated those instructions earlier this month. Most of nan organization fled past year, but astir 400,000 group are believed to person remained successful nan north.

Palestinians who fled nan northbound astatine nan commencement of nan warfare person not been allowed to return.

On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants blew holes successful Israel’s information obstruction and stormed in, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting different 250. Around 100 captives are still being held successful Gaza, a 3rd of whom are believed to beryllium dead.

Israel’s offensive successful Gaza has killed complete 42,000 Palestinians, according to section wellness authorities, who do not separate combatants from civilians. The warfare has destroyed ample areas of Gaza and displaced astir 90% of its organization of 2.3 cardinal people.

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Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Kareem Chehayeb successful Beirut, Zeke Miller, Mike Balsamo, Eric Tucker and Tara Copp successful Washington contributed to this report.

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