At leasst 84 Palestinians were killed, including more than 50 children, and dozens more injured and missing, in an Israeli bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip late on Friday.
The Government Media Office in Gaza said that Israeli air strikes targeted two residential buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp, with the attacks being described as “brutal massacres".
Strikes continued across the enclave on Saturday, with particular focus on Nuseirat, where at least five have been killed.
Meanwhile in Lebanon, there are reports of dozens of people being killed and more than 25 towns and villages being targeted in the Bekaa Valley, with 52 people reportedly killed in the Baalbek region in the past 24 hours.
On Saturday, Hezbollah launched a retaliatory rocket attack that wounded 19 people in central Israel. Three missiles fired from Lebanon struck Israel's Sharon area.
A coalition of groups in Iraq claims its fighters conducted four drone attacks on the southern Israeli resort of Eilat, following Israel’s announcement that it intercepted three drones approaching from the east.
In a statement, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attacks on what it described as “four vital targets” in the resort on Israel’s Red Sea coast, stating they were carried out within one hour.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it is deeply concerned about rising attacks on health workers and facilities in Lebanon, warning that the healthcare system was already under enormous pressure before the Israeli war against Hezbollah.
Since an escalation of hostilities on 17 September 2024, the UN health agency has verified 55 attacks on healthcare in Lebanon, causing 102 deaths with 83 injured.
“But the (Lebanese) Ministry of Health is reporting that there are much higher numbers,” said Dr. Margaret Harris, WHO spokesperson.
Many health workers have been killed or injured while off duty, she said, and this matters because “the health systems are already overstretched, health workers are already overworked and displaced. We are continuing to lose health workers at the very time when they are needed most”.
Asked whether Israel was attacking health facilities without any precaution as has been reported in Gaza, Dr. Harris replied that the WHO was “again and again and again emphasizing that health care is not a target, health workers are not a target. And we are certainly concerned about seeing the same pattern.”
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Saturday to retaliate against attacks by Israel and its ally the United States targeting Tehran and groups it supports in the region.
"The enemies, both the USA and the Zionist regime, should know that they will definitely receive a tooth-breaking response to what they are doing against Iran, the Iranian nation, and the resistance front," Khamenei said in a speech to students in Tehran.
He was referring to the alliance of Tehran-backed armed groups that include Yemen's Houthi rebels, Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and various groups in Iraq and Syria.
Hezbollah states that its fighters launched rockets at the Sha’al settlement in the northern occupied Golan Heights and the Dalton settlement in northern Israel’s Upper Galilee region.
Additionally, the group reported that the Yesod HaMa’ala settlement in Israel’s Hula Valley, the Bar Yohai settlement near Mount Meron, and the village of Birya north of Safad town were also targeted with rocket salvoes.
The Israeli military said on Saturday it had intercepted three drones launched from the east over the Red Sea, without specifying where they came from.
"A short while ago, three UAVs that were launched from the east were intercepted over the Red Sea.... the UAVs were intercepted prior to crossing into Israeli territory," the military said in a statement.
According to the Wafa news agency, armed Israeli settlers from an illegal outpost attacked Palestinian olive pickers west of the central city of Salfit, shouting, cursing, and threatening them in an effort to drive them off their land, as reported by farmer Yousef al-Deek.
The incident occurred in the Khalat al-Haramiya area. Al-Deek added that, over the past week, settlers also stole 30 bags of olives along with agricultural equipment
Hezbollah reports that it launched rockets at an Israeli intelligence base near Tel Aviv.
At 2:30 am (00:30 GMT), Hezbollah fighters “fired a salvo of rockets at the Glilot base of the 8200 military intelligence unit in the suburbs of Tel Aviv,” the group stated on Telegram
Al Jazeera are reporting that at least five Palestinians were killed and several others injured after Israeli forces bombed a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa also reported that Israeli artillery shelled a house belonging to the Samman family in the Jabalia refugee camp.
A missile strike in Israel's Sharon area wounded 19 people, police said early Saturday, after the army reported three projectiles were fired from Lebanon into central Israel.
All 19, four of whom were "in moderate condition", were taken to hospitals for treatment, the Israeli police added.
Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency medical service earlier said that several people had been wounded in a strike on the central city of Tira, including "a male around 20 with shrapnel injuries".
Videos posted by the Israeli Foreign Ministry on social media showed fire and smoke spilling from a building into the street and emergency responders swarming the site.
"This is the result of a direct hit of a Hezbollah rocket on a building in the Israeli Arab town of Tira, injuring 19 civilians," the ministry said in the post.
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