Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Attacks ramp up between Hezbollah and Israel

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And you can always find all our latest coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, here.

We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of today’s events:

• Israeli air strikes killed 22 Palestinians – including 13 children – in another attack targeting a school in Gaza where displaced people took shelter.
• In Lebanon, the death toll from Israel’s attack on Beirut’s southern suburb reached 38 people with 60 wounded and 23 people still missing.
• At least 30 Palestinians have died in the Israeli bombing of multiple locations across the Gaza Strip since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
• The Palestinian Health Ministry said five of its workers were killed and several wounded in an Israeli attack on its warehouse in southern Gaza.
• Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital warned it may go out of service in “less than 10 days” as a result of depleted “quantities of oil and generator spare parts”.

The killing of senior commanders and civilians is a major breach of security for the Lebanese group.

A nation already on edge for years, Lebanon’s foreign minister told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that nobody is safe. With Israel diverting focus and forces to the north, is it preparing a ground invasion for what it calls a “second phase of the war” on Gaza?

How much of a blow is all this for Hezbollah? And is the region already at war?

Israeli fighter jets have struck about 290 locations in southern Lebanon since Saturday afternoon, the Israeli army said in a post on X.

The Israeli military said it also attacked an additional 110 locations in southern Lebanon in the past several hours.

The attacks targeted Hezbollah launchers and military infrastructure, the Israeli military claimed.

The State Department said it renewed its travel advisory for Lebanon, continuing to urge US citizens not to travel there and for those already in the country to leave immediately.

“Due to the unpredictable nature of ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and Israel and recent explosions throughout Lebanon, including Beirut, the US Embassy urges US citizens to depart Lebanon while commercial options still remain available,” it said in a statement.

With at least 70 people killed in Lebanon this week, the death toll in the country since October has surpassed 740 during the worst Israel-Hezbollah flare-up since the 2006 war.

A man was shot in the foot by Israeli troops in the Wadi al-Hummus area, northeast of Bethlehem, the Wafa news agency reports.

Citing the Palestine Red Crescent Society, it said the man was taken to hospital for treatment.

More than 15,000 people marched in Liverpool to call on the UK government to stop all arms shipments to Israel.

“I keep coming because I see a genocide livestreamed to my phone every day with women and children killed, and seeing our government do nothing in response,” protester Sue Houseman told Al Jazeera at the rally.

“I find frustration that we can’t stand up and be humane and look after people who are just being punished and killed and slaughtered, having their water cut off and their food cut off. And our government just doesn’t act. I feel like I’ve got to hold them to account.”

Thousands of demonstrators marched through central Rome, calling for an end to the war on Gaza.

The crowd protested Israel’s actions in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.

The protest saw participants carrying Palestinian flags and banners reading, “Stop the genocide” while chanting slogans such as “Free Palestine” and “Murderer Netanyahu”.

Demonstrators also criticised Italy’s government, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, accusing Rome of complicity in Israel’s actions.

“It’s been nearly a year of this genocide, and now it seems they want to destroy not just Gaza but the entire [occupied] West Bank, all of Palestine, and even Lebanon,” Michela, a participant at the demonstration, told the Anadolu news agency.

Another participant, Sara, emphasised the need to continue protesting, pledging to do so as long as necessary as she asserted that a “free Palestine is a right”.

Hamas has denounced a deadly Israeli air attack on a school sheltering displaced civilians in Gaza City which killed 22 people, including 13 children. The attack also wounded 30 people in the Zeitoun neighbourhood.

“These unprecedented crimes in modern history constitute a flagrant violation of all human values and international laws, and are an insistence on continuing the brutal genocide in Gaza – with military and political cover provided by the US administration,” Hamas said in a statement.

The Israeli attacks “place the human conscience and the international system with all its institutions before a moral, humanitarian and legal test to confront the aggression of the Israeli occupation, stop its crimes, and hold its terrorist leaders accountable”.

The National News Agency reports that an unmanned aerial vehicle fired two missiles at the border town of Dahra.

Earlier, the Israeli military said that dozens of warplanes were attacking Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon as cross-border exchanges intensify and fears grow of an all-out war between the decades-old enemies.

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a renewed warning to its citizens advising against travel to Lebanon because of the continuing Israeli attacks.

The ministry also urged Jordanians currently in Lebanon to leave the country.

On Saturday, Israel launched an intense wave of air raids on southern Lebanon. The Lebanese group responded by firing a large number of rockets – some of the heaviest fighting since the war on Gaza broke out last October.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg condemned the war in Gaza as a “horrific genocide” during a demonstration in Stockholm attended by thousands in support of Palestinians.

Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and held signs with messages reading: “Children are being killed in Gaza,” “Stop the genocide,” and “Palestine forever.”

Speaking to reporters, Thunberg said silence during this time amounts to complicity. “Anyone who has the means to act must raise their voice and do everything possible to stop it,” she said.

Thousands of Israelis have again taken to the streets of Tel Aviv to press for a Gaza truce deal that could free dozens of captives.

Eli Elbag, father of captive Liri Elbag, addressed his daughter at the demonstration. “It’s been a year since I last kissed you, a year since I last laughed with you. We will continue to fight to bring everyone home.”

Saturday’s protest unfolded in the shadow of increasing cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanese group Hezbollah.

Shahar Mor, nephew of slain captive Avraham Munder, said he feared the fight against Hezbollah would again distract leaders from the plight of the abductees. “Their goal is to focus on the illusion of ‘absolute victory’ that is always just around the corner.”

The situation is getting much more intense, especially in the southern part of Gaza where confrontations between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces in Rafah city are still raging. The combat is particularly heavy in the eastern and central areas of Rafah.

This is despite the Israeli army’s claim that it managed to “dismantle” Hamas’s Rafah Brigades in the city last week.

Also, one of the main medical warehouses has been hit in Rafah without any sort of warning, causing a great deal of destruction. There was no word on casualties.

A Republican senator told an Arab-American advocate to “hide your head in a bag” and accused her of supporting Hamas during an extraordinary exchange at a congressional hearing.

Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute, appeared as a witness at a hearing into hate crimes.

Watch the exchange below:

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital described in a statement the dire conditions facing the facility. Here’s a summary of what it said:

• The hospital may go out of service in “less than 10 days” as a result of depleted “quantities of oil and generator spare parts”.
• Situation poses a threat of “a real humanitarian disaster” for more than one million residents in central Gaza under fire by Israeli forces.
• The hospital has been operating on generators for a year without pause during the continuing war.
• World Health Organization, Red Cross, and other international organisations are urged to “immediately and urgently” address the hospital’s deteriorating conditions.