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At least 37 people have been injured after a truck rammed into a bus stopnorth of Tel Aviv, Israeli ambulances services said on Sunday.
Eyewitnesses said that that a large number of those wounded were soldiers on their way to military bases.
At least four are in critical condition, Israeli media said. Early reports suggested that the perpetrator was a Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem, with the Times of Israel saying he was shot and "neutralised".
The attack came as at least four Israeli reserve soldiers were killed in south Lebanon following fighting with Hezbollah operatives Saturday evening.
In northern Gaza, Israeli forces carried out another massacre late on Saturday, killing at least 40 Palestinians in Beit Lahia.
80 more were injured in the incident, as Israel continues its intensified siege and attack on northern Gaza for the 23rd day in a row.
Palestinian media said that Israeli forces bombed a densely-populated residential area, targeting at least five homes with extended families residing inside.
Hamas condemned the massacres, saying "The brutal crime carried out by the terrorist occupation army in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, by targeting a residential area that includes 5 houses crowded with dozens of citizens, and levelling them to the ground on the heads of those inside, is an embodiment of one of the ugliest images of genocide and forced displacement known to the modern era."
Tensions are high in the region, as Israel struck Iran early on Saturday, killing at least four soldiers, and cause limited damage to radar systems, according to the army.
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, said officials should determine how best to demonstrate Iran's power to Israel, stressing that the attack should neither be "exaggerated nor minimised".
Meanwhile, south Lebanon's villages continue to be targeted, with several attacks reported on Sunday.
Israeli forces have detained at least 12 Palestinians from the West Bank during the last 24 hours, according to a joint statement by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society.
The detentions occurred across various governorates, including Hebron, Ramallah, and Jenin, amid a series of raids carried out by the Israeli army, amid intensified violence in the Palestinian territories.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant briefed US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin on the success of Israel's strikes on Iran and discussed "strategic opportunities" that may have arisen, Gallant's office said on Sunday.
"Gallant discussed initial assessments regarding the success of the strikes against missile manufacturing facilities, surface-to-air missile arrays and Iranian aerial capabilities," it said.
"Minister Gallant also discussed the strategic opportunities that have risen as a result of operational achievements, in both the northern and southern arenas," the statement said, referring to fighting in Lebanon and Gaza.
Lebanon says two killed, 11 wounded by Israel strike near coastal city of Sidon.
Hezbollah said it fired rockets at a military base in northern Israel on Sunday, a day after it declared several areas in the region a "legitimate target" due to the presence of Israeli troops.
The group said it targeted a "military industries base north of Haifa... with a large rocket salvo", after it issued an evacuation warning on Saturday for large swathes of northern Israel.
The directors of the CIA and Israel's Mossad will meet Qatar's prime minister in Doha on Sunday to begin negotiations for a new short term Gaza ceasefire deal and the release of some hostages in exchange for Israel’s release of Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the talks told Reuters.
The talks aim to get Israel and Hamas to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza that would last less than a month, with the hope that it would lead to a more permanent agreement, the official said.
The details of which or how many hostages and prisoners would be released as part of the deal is not yet clear, the official said.
The Israeli military urged residents of 14 villages in southern Lebanon on Sunday to evacuate immediately and move north of the Awali river.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel's air attack on Iran was "precise and powerful" and achieved all its objectives.
"We promised we would respond to the Iranian attack and on Saturday we struck. The attack in Iran was precise and powerful, achieving all of its objectives," Netanyahu said in a speech on Sunday.
At least three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Zawtar Al Sharkiya in southern Lebanon, the country's health ministry said on Sunday, adding that an airstrike on Marjayoun the previous day resulted in five fatalities and one injury.
The Israeli military on Sunday said four soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon, bringing to 36 the total number of Israeli soldiers killed since the start of ground operations on September 30.
The soldiers "fell during combat in southern Lebanon," the army said in a statement, adding that they were killed on Saturday.
Early on Sunday, at least two Palestinians were killed in Israeli shelling in Tel al-Zaatar east of the Jabalia camp , also in northern Gaza, Al Jazeera said.
Multiple people were injured on Sunday when a truck struck a bus stop at a major intersection in central Israel, Israeli police said.
"Currently, the circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation," the police said in a statement.
Israeli media said at least 50 people were injured in the incident.
Lebanon's state news agency early on Sunday reported an Israeli raid on southern Beirut, after Israel's army issued a fresh evacuation call.
The official National News Agency said shortly after midnight that Israel had "targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut".
The Israeli army had earlier asked residents of two neighbourhoods in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital to evacuate their homes.
"You are located near Hezbollah facilities and interests, against which the IDF will operate in the near future," military spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on social media platform X, using an acronym for the Israeli army.
The evacuation call included maps showing buildings that would be targeted in Burj al-Barajneh and Hadath.
At least 40 Palestinians were killed and 80 others injured in Israeli air strikes on several houses in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya on Saturday, official Palestinian news agency Wafa said on Sunday, citing medical sources.
At least five homes were targeted in the strike, with some belonging to the Abu Shdaq, Al-Masri, and Salman families, Wafa said.
Iranian officials should determine how best to demonstrate Iran's power to Israel after the Israeli attack on Iran two nights ago, Iran's official IRNA news agency cited the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying on Sunday.
"The evil committed by the Zionist regime (Israel) two nights ago should neither be downplayed nor exaggerated", IRNA cited Khamenei as saying.
Scores of Israeli jets completed three waves of strikes before dawn against missile factories and other sites near Tehran and in western Iran, Israel's military said.
Khamenei said Iran's power should be demonstrated to Israel, adding that the way to do so should be "determined by the officials and that which is in the best interest of the people and the country should take place".
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