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Israel Strikes Northern Gaza and Lebanon, Killing Over 87

International Desk

  11 Nov 2024, 09:32
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A hospital director in Gaza said on Sunday that at least 17 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a home sheltering displaced people in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north of the enclave.

Dr. Fadel Naim, director of the Al-Ahly Hospital in Gaza City, said nine women were among the dead and that the toll was likely to rise as rescue efforts continued. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that more than 30 people were killed.

The Israeli military said it had targeted a site where militants were operating, without providing evidence, and that the details of the strike were under review. A separate strike on Sunday in Gaza City killed Wael al-Khour, a minister in the Hamas-run government, and several members of his family, according to Gaza's Civil Defense, a first-responders organization that operates under the government.

Israeli forces have encircled and largely isolated Jabaliya and nearby towns such as Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun for roughly the past month. The Biden administration in the US recently called on Israel to ensure more humanitarian aid enter Gaza or risk possible restrictions on US military funding. The 30-day deadline issued by the outgoing US administration expires on Wednesday.

Lebanon's Health Ministry said on Sunday that 23 people were killed, seven of them children, and six others injured in an Israeli strike on the village of Aalmat in Mount Lebanon province, to the north of the capital Beirut. After revising these figures several times, authorities said the toll could climb further, as rescue workers cleared rubble and wreckage at the site.

Israel did not immediately comment on the incident, which took place far to the north of Hezbollah's traditional strongholds in the south and east of the country. Lebanese officials also reported attacks on Sunday in Baalbek in the country's east, not far from the border to Syria, and in southern areas nearer the border to Israel. (Source: Deutsche Welle)

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