Palestinians in northern Gaza described heavy Israeli bombardment Saturday in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people, as Israel warned people there and in southern Lebanon to get out of the way of offensives against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups.
In Lebanon, the U.N. peacekeeping force said that its headquarters in Naqoura was hit again, with a peacekeeper struck by gunfire late Friday and in stable condition. It wasn’t clear who fired. The shooting occurred a day after Israel’s military fired on the headquarters for a second straight day. Israel, which has warned peacekeepers to leave their positions, didn’t immediately respond to questions.
Hunger warnings emerged again in northern Gaza as residents said they hadn't received aid since the beginning of the month. The U.N. World Food Program said that no food aid had entered the north since Oct. 1. An estimated 400,000 people remain there.
Israel’s military renewed its offensive in northern Gaza almost a week ago while escalating its air and ground campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Amid Israel's war with Hezbollah, a top U.N. official, Carl Skau, told The Associated Press that he's concerned that Lebanon’s ports and airport might be taken out of service. More than 1 million people have been displaced.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said that an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building on the edge of Barja south of Beirut, and the Health Ministry said that four were killed. The ministry said an airstrike on Maisra village northeast of Beirut killed five people.
The total toll in Lebanon over the past year of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is now 2,255 killed, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. More than 1,400 people have been killed since mid-September. It wasn't clear how many were fighters.
Israel’s military said that Hezbollah fired more than 300 projectiles over the Yom Kippur holiday. The military said that it killed 50 militants in Lebanon. Claims on either side couldn't be verified.
“We will keep standing with the Lebanese people during these difficult circumstances and also with the Palestinian people,” the speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said Saturday while touring the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.
In northern Gaza, residents told the AP many were trapped in their homes and shelters with dwindling supplies while seeing bodies uncollected in the streets as the bombing hampered emergency responders.
Those who rushed to the scene of the latest deadly airstrikes in the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya found a hole 20 meters (65 feet) deep where a home once stood.
At least 20 bodies were recovered as of Saturday morning, while others likely were trapped under rubble, emergency service officials said. Elsewhere in Jabaliya, a strike on a home killed two brothers and wounded a woman and newborn baby, the officials said.
Another strike in the afternoon hit a Jabaliya home and killed at least four people, including a woman, said Fares Abu Hamza, an official with the emergency service.
Israel’s military said that it killed more than 20 militants in the Jabaliya area over the past day.
Military spokesperson Avichay Adraee told people in parts of Jabaliya and Gaza City to evacuate south to an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone as Israel plans to use great force “and will continue to do so for a long time.”
Israel has repeatedly returned to parts of Gaza as Hamas and other militants regroup. The war has destroyed large areas of Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population of 2.3 million people, often multiple times.
Once again, some families moved south on foot, in donkey carts or crowded in vehicles that navigated piles of rubble. Others refused to go.
“It’s like the first days of the war,” said a Jabaliya resident, Ahmed Abu Goneim. “The occupation is doing everything to uproot us. But we will not leave.”
The 24-year-old said Israeli warplanes and drones struck many neighboring houses in the past week. He counted 15 relatives and neighbors, including four women and five children as young as 3, killed in neighboring homes. He said that there were dead in the streets and “no one is able to recover them because of the bombing.”
Hamza Sharif, who stays with his family in a school-turned-shelter in Jabaliya, described “constant bombings day and night.”
He said that the shelter hasn't received aid since the beginning of the month.
“Families depend on what they have stored, but they will run out of supplies very soon,” he said.
The World Food Program said that it was unclear how long the limited food supplies it distributed in northern Gaza earlier will last.
The U.N.’s independent investigator on the right to food last month accused Israel of carrying out a “starvation campaign” against Palestinians, which Israel has denied.
Israel's offensive in Gaza started after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, when militants stormed into Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250 others.
Israel’s offensive has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, who don't specify between combatants and civilians. Gaza’s Health Ministry said that hospitals had received the bodies of 49 people killed over the past 24 hours.
Jack Jeffery in Jerusalem, and Sam Metz in Rabat, Morocco, contributed to this report.
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Eastmann
and yes UN-no problem.
no sanctions.nothing.exceptional nation can do whatever they want.
sakurasuki
Who are they to have the right to told those UN Peacekeepers to leave their position? Those being stationed inside Lebanon.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UNIFIL_Deployment_2018.jpg
GDBD
How many more crimes against humanity needs to be recorded to stop this Nazi like Zionist state?
Here some facts just from this article:
Bombed PeaceKeeper HQ.
90% of Gaza people were displaced multiple times
Israel carried out "Starvation Campaign" against Palestinians.
People can only move on foot or Donkey carts.
Israel killed almost 2% of Gaza Population.I don't know if this should be called Holocaust, Colonialism or just another sign of extreme greed in Jewish history. But something clearly beyond evil is happening. This needs to be stopped and perpetrators be punished according to the International Law.
Banthu
More unprovoked aggression by US-backed Netenyahu in his full-scale invasion of a neighboring country.
Bombing schools, hospitals and apartment buildings.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Sending missiles into playgrounds is still a provocation.
sakurasuki
How much cost of this for U.S. Tax payer so far?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/7/us-spends-more-than-20bn-in-aid-to-israel-middle-east-conflicts-report
Banthu
Sounds like Netenyahu apologist talking points.
I was told in February 2022 that there can never be any justification for an "unprovoked full-scale" invasion of a neighboring country.
Now those same people are telling me that there is.
John
Holocaust part 2.
Come on America, sort your best mate out.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Obviously a military attack on a country is an actual justification for war, unlike russia's unprovoked invasion. And the playground did not just self-destruct.
TaiwanIsNotChina
At this point we just don't want Iran to gain anything.
u_s__reamer
"Shooting fish in a barrel" isn't war - it's murder. Cowards all!
MarkX
I just can't understand why Israel is continuing this bombardment and attacks. There is no way they will ever be able to kill all of the Hamas and Hezbollah members, and as history shows, when Israel attacks and scores a short earned victory, in the end it creates an even bigger problem like the creation of Hamas and Hezbollah! At some point the US is going to have to tell him to give it up, but when that day is, I have no idea.
burgers and beers
Sending missiles into playgrounds is still a provocation.
UN peacekkepers are being repeatedly attacked by IDF. Has UN personnel also been attacking playgrounds? Looking forward to the creative ways D.C. shills will try to justify that. Is Hezbollah hiding in the UN bases too now ?
RichardPearce
The time is now for every Japanese citizen to let their government know what side they want Japan to be on in the war that seems to be inevitably going hemispheric.
Biden has given Netanyahu a greenlight to attack Iran for a third time, despite Iran having made it as clear as possible that it is out of 'strategic patience' and it's next response won't be a demonstration of ability to hit any of Netanyahu's militants bases when and where and as often as it likes, but of its capacity to DESTROY every base involved in the attack, plus whatever Israeli civilian infrastructure is the equivalent in SIZE to whatever Iranian civilian infrastructure Netanyahu and Biden have chosen to target (note the size equivalency, because Iran has a lot more civilian infrastructure than Israel does, so that will be the proportionality in the decision) and Biden has effectively trapped himself into both attempting to interfere in Iran defending itself, and then going to war with Iran when it decides to eliminate the interference (and probably trapped himself into going to war even if Iran simply deals with the interference by drowning it out by sustained volume of fire)
Which means, does Japan want to end up on the WRONG SIDE of the world by backing Netanyahu, or not.
Let your government know, and pretty quickly.
RichardPearce
Sakarasuki, the American official in charge of tracking how much of the American taxpayers money is being spent propping up Netanyahu's regime claims he doesn't know how much is being spent. He just insists everyone else's estimate is wrong.
Which means that the truth is WAY TOO MUCH
RichardPearce
Now I don't know about you, but if someone has shot at the UN Peacekeepers as often as the JSIP militants have, if you were to offer me really big odds to bet that it wasn't them this time, I'd be keeping my money in my pockets.
Fos
Banthu
Banthu, what is happening, it seems to me, is that United States of America, Japan’s main ally, is propping up their economy. You don’t need to go to be a scientist to check the stock trends of the top 5 weapons manufacturers in the world (all Americans) since February 2022, when the conflict in Ucraine started. Unprovoked we are told, as if the Nato enlargement is something which never took place, and as if Washington would react differently should China or Russia go to Canada or Mexico to set up a military base with nuclear missiles installation. Go figure.
The same reason why US led media call Putin an aggressor and don’t apply the same measure to Netenyahu after the ongoing genocide in Gaza and now in Libano.
Text books teach us that the Economy does not like uncertainty (see the geopolitical mess the world is in for the above reasons), yet Wall Street set the highest record only last Friday, and the likes of Blackrock and Goldman Sachs are going on a shopping spree in Europe (and Ukraine), Germany is recession, and the Us government can’t keep up with their orders of lethal weapons all over the world, including Japan and Taiwan.
What is more amusing (and sad) is that Us is sending their apologists to this chat as well, shifting their attention to Russia. Incredible to hear it as a justification for killing over 40.000 children and women in Gaza.