In the Gazan refugee camp of Jabaliya, 12 residential buildings are destroyed: Al Jazeera
▲ Firefighters fight a fire in the rubble of a building destroyed yesterday by Israel in the Gaza Strip.Photo Afp
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Beirut. Warplanes bombed the southern suburbs of Beirut last night, just minutes after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ordered the population to evacuate the place, while attacking the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north again. of Gaza, with some 150 dead and wounded, including women and children.
Lebanese state media confirmed that an Israeli onslaught hit the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, just minutes after the Israeli army issued evacuation warnings for two buildings.
Israeli warplanes launched a new attack a few moments ago on the Choueifat areaLebanon’s official National News Agency (ANN) reported, The Guardian reported.
Enemy aircraft launched two bombing raids in the Haret Hreik sectoron the south bank, ANN said.
Images from the AfpTv agency showed columns of smoke rising in the sector while Afp journalists heard two loud explosions in the area.
In Lebanon, the death toll now stands at 2,574 people and 12,000 injured due to Israel’s offensive, according to Lebanese authorities.
In Gaza, the Gaza Civil Defense warned of heavy casualties after the Israeli army blew up a dozen residential buildings in the Jabaliya refugee camp in an attack described as a great slaughterreported Al Jazeera.
The Wafa news agency cited local sources and said that around 150 people, including women and children, were killed and wounded in the Israeli offensive.
The final death toll could rise as ambulance and rescue teams had difficulty reaching the site of the attack, in the al-Hawja area, in the center of the Jabaliya refugee camp, due to restrictions imposed by Israeli forces.
Israeli tanks also shelled Gaza’s besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital, as machine gun fire poured into the overflowing medical facility, severely damaging an intensive care unit.
Another attack on the Shuhadaa al-Nuseirat school, where displaced people were sheltering in the center of the strip, killed at least 17 people yesterday, almost all of them women and children, Palestinian medical officials reported.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, said: one person dies every hour due to a lack of medical supplies and health personnel, Al Jazeera reported.
At least 18 Palestinians, including a journalist and former prisoners, were detained by Israeli forces in the West Bank, the Palestinian government reported.
In the Palestinian enclave, the death toll rose to 42,847 and the wounded to 100,544 since the start of the war between Hamas and Israel.
The Islamic resistance movement Hamas reiterated its readiness for a ceasefire if Israel stops its offensive, withdraws from the strip, allows the return of the displaced, accepts a serious agreement to exchange prisoners and allows the entry of humanitarian aid to Gazaindicated a senior official of the Palestinian group.