Israel says it has killed a Hezbollah commander inside LebanonIn a message on its official Telegram channel, Israel’s military has claimed to have killed a Hezbollah commander who it names as Abu Ali Rida. It said he commanded the Baraachit area in southern Lebanon.The IDF described him as being “responsible for planning and executing rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on IDF troops.”In the operational update, Israel said:
IDF troops continue to conduct limited, localised, targeted raids in southern Lebanon, dismantling terrorist infrastructure, locating weapons, and eliminating terrorists.
Huge swathes of Lebanon’s population have been displaced from their homes by Israel’s military action against Hezbollah. According to Lebanese authorities, more than 2,800 people have been killed inside Lebanon by Israeli attacks. Tens of thousands of Israelis in the north of the country have also been displaced from their homes by near constant rocket frie from Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces inside Lebanon.ShareKey eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureIn a statement the UK-based Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) group has said that all three hospitals in northern Gaza are under attack.In the statement is said:
All three remaining hospitals in northern Gaza are under attack. Kamal Adwan hospital has come under direct artillery fire, resulting in the serious injury of a child. Al Awda hospital has also been shelled, and Indonesian hospital hit by drone strikes. ⁠The Israeli military is killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinians a day and the patients in need of lifesaving care in northern Gaza are now left helpless under siege.
These latest attacks by Israeli forces are part of a sustained assault on Gaza’s health system, amounting to war crimes and the crime of extermination. Israel is making Palestinian survival in northern Gaza impossible as part of a policy of sustained pressure and forcible expulsion. The international community must not allow this brutality to go unchallenged.
An earlier statement today by the Hamas-led health ministry in Gaza said that all three hospitals had been put out of operation.The statement from the Gaza’s government media office, reported by Al Jazeera and Israeli media, said the “northern district is devastated due to the ongoing Israeli aggression.”It claimed that about 1,800 Palestinians had been killed and about 4,000 others wounded as a result of IDF operations in the north of the Gaza Strip over the past three weeks. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict.It accused the Israeli army of “continuing to destroy civilian infrastructure”, and halting the vaccination campaign for children in northern Gaza “as part of its destruction plan.”It described the area as “disaster-stricken”. The claims have not been independently verified.A statement on Friday signed by the heads of UN agencies, including the UN children’s agency Unicef and the World Food Programme, and other aid groups, warned that “The entire Palestinian population in north Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence.”ShareIsraeli media is reporting that about 50 rockets have been fired into Israel from the direction of Lebanon so far on Monday. A barrage of 20 rockets was aimed at Western Galilee, with 30 aimed at Upper Galilee. Tens of thousands of Israelis have been displaced from their homes in northern Israel, with Benjamin Netanyahu’s government setting their ability to return safely as a war aim for its campaign in Lebanon which it says targets Iranian-backed Hezbollah.ShareLebanon’s National News Agency is reporting new Israeli air strikes on the south of the country.ShareIsrael’s military has issued further details of the interceptions carried out this morning. It says that “four UAVs fired from both Lebanon and the east were intercepted by the IAF,” stating that two were intercepted outside of Israel.ShareHere are some of the latest images sent over the news wires from Gaza, Lebanon, Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.A Palestinian man sits on the rubble of a house destroyed in the Israeli military offensive on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/ReutersPalestinian children mill around burnt out vehicles near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty ImagesPeople pass by a billboard supporting US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Tel Aviv. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPAA man walks through the rubble following an Israeli strike in the village of Douris in the Baalbeck district of eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa valley. Photograph: Nidal Solh/AFP/Getty ImagesShareIsraeli media reports that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet today with opposition leader Yair Lapid for a security briefing.SharePalestinian Authority foreign ministry condemns reported torching of cars in occupied West Bank by Israeli settlersThe Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry has issued a statement condemning the reported burning of cars by Israeli settlers in Al-Bireh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.In a statement, the ministry said it condemned the “brutal attack” in “the strongest terms”, saying that “it considers it an extension of the crimes of settler gangs throughout the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and a copy of the manifestations of the genocide and displacement of our people in the Gaza Strip.”It continued:
The ministry affirms that the Jewish terrorist elements who stormed Al-Bireh would not have committed this heinous crime had they not felt protected, supported and immune from the political level in the occupying state, especially the ministers of the extreme Israeli right who openly incite against Palestinian citizens, their land and their property in full view.
A woman inspects a burnt out car in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty ImagesSenior members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government have repeated stated their intention to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state and their desire to encourage further illegal settlements inside the West Bank.Al-Bireh is to the north-east of Ramallah.People inspect burnt cars and a building after a reported attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. Photograph: Zain Jaafar/AFP/Getty ImagesShareLebanon’s National News Agency reports that caretaker minister of the interior Bassam Mawlawi will convene a central internal security council meeting at noon to, it says, “follow up on security developments in light of the continued Israeli attacks on Lebanon.”The caretaker minister is expected to make public remarks after the meeting.SharePalestinian news agency Wafa is reporting that one person has been injured after Israeli security forces opened fire near Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and also reports that Israel has detained one man in Beitunia, west of Ramallah.ShareIsrael formally notifies UN it is to ban Unrwa from operating in IsraelIsrael’s foreign ministry has said in a statement, reported by AFP, that it has formally notified the UN that the country will ban the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, Unrwa, from operating inside Israel.Unrwa operates 96 schools in the Israeli-occupied West Bank serving 45,000 students, as well as 43 health centres, food distribution services for refugee families, and psychological support services, according to the agency’s website. It has played a crucial logistical role in facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza, as well as providing shelters for displaced Palestinians.“On the instruction of foreign minister Israel Katz, the ministry of foreign affairs notified the UN of the cancellation of the agreement between the state of Israel and Unrwa,” the foreign ministry said.Israel has alleged that 12 Unrwa employees took part in the Hamas attack inside southern Israel on 7 October 2023. The agency fired several staff members as a result of an independent inquiry, but says that Israel’s wider accusations of staff in Gaza supporting Hamas are unfounded.In Monday’s statement, Katz said “Unrwa, the organisation whose employees participated in the 7 October massacre and many of whose employees are Hamas operatives, is part of the problem in the Gaza Strip and not part of the solution.”Unrwa’s mandate is to provide life-giving services to anyone who has “lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict”, a mission widened after the 1967 war, when the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories began.Foreign minister Katz disputed that cutting off Unrwa would damage the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, which has been besieged by Israeli forces and subjected to aerial bombardment for over a year. Nearly all of the territory’s 2.4 million people have been displaced from their homes at least once.“Even now, the vast majority of humanitarian aid to Gaza is delivered through other organisations, and only 13 percent of it is delivered through Uurwa,” Katz said.“The state of Israel is committed to international law and will continue to facilitate the entrance of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip in a manner that does not harm the security of the citizens of Israel.”Israel is yet to provide any proposal for how the functions of Unrwa would be replaced. Israel has been repeatedly accused of breaching international humanitarian law in its response to the 7 October attack.During a recent visit to the region, US secretary of state Antony Blinken cautioned Israel that the US was watching “very carefully” for progress being made on stepping up the amount of aid being delivered to Gaza.Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said “the state of Israel will continue to cooperate with humanitarian organisations but not with organisations that promote terrorism against us.”SharePalestinian media sources are reporting that between 15 and 20 cars were set alight in Al-Bireh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers.Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, is quoted by news agency Wafa described the incident as a crime by “terrorist settler militias.”The Times of Israel reports that Israel’s police force has said it has opened an investigation.SharePalestinian news agency Wafa reports that overnight Israel has continued its assault on Gaza, stating that “local sources reported hearing successive explosions north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, while the occupation’s warplanes targeted the city of Rafah in the south.”It said there were dead and wounded after the attacks.Wafa reports that one child was injured according to medical sources from the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza. They told the news agency “artillery shelling targeted the hospital wards, the nursery, the hospital yard and the water tanks.”The claims have not been independently verified.ShareIsrael claims to have intercepted ‘suspicious aerial targets’ from the eastIn a message on its official Telegram channel, Israel’s military has claimed that on Monday morning it had intercepted what it termed “a suspicious aerial target” that crossed into Israeli-controlled territory “from the east”.There were no reports of any casualties. In the same message the IDF said it had also intercepted “a suspicious aerial target in the Upper Galilee area” that had crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon.Emanuel Fabian, who reports for the Times of Israel, posted to suggest that two drones had headed towards Israeli-controlled territory from Iraq.Four drones launched at Israel, two from Iraq and two from Lebanon, were shot down by the Israeli Air Force this morning, the IDF says.— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) November 4, 2024ShareIsrael says it has killed a Hezbollah commander inside LebanonIn a message on its official Telegram channel, Israel’s military has claimed to have killed a Hezbollah commander who it names as Abu Ali Rida. It said he commanded the Baraachit area in southern Lebanon.The IDF described him as being “responsible for planning and executing rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on IDF troops.”In the operational update, Israel said:
IDF troops continue to conduct limited, localised, targeted raids in southern Lebanon, dismantling terrorist infrastructure, locating weapons, and eliminating terrorists.
Huge swathes of Lebanon’s population have been displaced from their homes by Israel’s military action against Hezbollah. According to Lebanese authorities, more than 2,800 people have been killed inside Lebanon by Israeli attacks. Tens of thousands of Israelis in the north of the country have also been displaced from their homes by near constant rocket frie from Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces inside Lebanon.ShareWelcome to the Guardian’s continued coverage of the conflict in the Middle East. Here are the latest headlines …

In a strike inside Lebanon, Israel has claimed to kill a Hezbollah commander responsible, the IDF said, for “planning and executing rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on IDF troops”

Israel’s military said that on Monday morning it had intercepted what it called “a suspicious aerial target” heading towards Israeli-controlled territory from the east

A polio vaccination centre and the car of a UN aid official involved in this weekend’s vaccination campaign came under fire despite a promised “humanitarian pause” in Israeli bombardment, the UN has said

At least 43,341 Palestinian people have been killed and 102,105 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said

Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is at the centre of a new political storm related to a hostage deal in the Gaza war after the arrest of several people in connection with an alleged leak of classified documents from his office
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