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La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 17, 2024, p. 17
Jerusalem. At least 37 Palestinians died yesterday in Gaza and 21 people lost their lives in Lebanon after attacks by the Israeli army, while settlers from this country carried out an attack against Palestinians in the reoccupied West Bank.
In the strip, the bombings began at dawn on Saturday, medical sources informed Al Jazeera, among the victims are a dozen inhabitants of the Abu Assi school, in the Al Shati refugee camp, where 20 residents were injured.
It is estimated that there are still people trapped under the rubble, according to health officials. The school campus was hit by at least two projectiles, Gaza authorities reported.
Also yesterday, Israeli settlers carried out an attack on Palestinians in the reoccupied West Bank, outside Nablus, where houses, cars and land were burned: They didn’t leave anything, the electricity pole and all our belongings, the sofas, the water tank, they didn’t leave anything.a resident declared to the Qatari media Al Jazeera.
Meanwhile, in Lebanon, there are three children among the 21 killed in the Israeli bombings against the south, east of the country and in the capital. Health authorities confirmed that two health workers lost their lives during yesterday’s air offensive in Kfar Tebnit, while two are missing.
Israel confirmed an offensive on Beirut yesterday morning, 45 minutes after ordering a new forced evacuation of the area, considered a Hezbollah stronghold.
An Israeli gunship drone launched a projectile against a rescue team of the Rissala Scouts, linked to the Shiite political party Amal, on a road in the area, the Lebanese newspaper published L’Orient-Le Jour.
Bombing in Lebanon against world heritage site
In addition, Israeli air force planes attacked a residential district of the city of Tire, a world cultural heritage site, in southern Lebanon, the national news agency NNA reported, detailing that two high-rise buildings were completely destroyed in the attack, as well as the region’s civilian infrastructure.
In this context, the UN defended yesterday that the United Nations Interim Force for Lebanon respond to fire if necessary for your own protectionafter a patrol fired at an attack by unknown individuals who directed approximately 30 shots in the direction of the blue helmets.
Hezbollah, for its part, claimed responsibility for 18 attacks against Israeli positions, including two with rockets against the headquarters of an infantry battalion, in Ranim, near the border with Lebanon in northern Israel, said a statement collected by the ANI agency. .
Flares fired at Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea
The Shin Bet, Israel’s general internal security and intelligence service, and the police described dangerous climbing the firing of two flares at the house of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea, an event that the president of that nation, Isaac Herzog, condemned, the newspaper reported The Times of Israel.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv, in Hostage Square, as they do every week, demanding an agreement to release the captives in Gaza, a protest they dedicated to two children who are still held in the strip, in the context of the International Children’s Day, which was celebrated last week, local media indicated.
Meanwhile, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reiterated that the war will not end until Hamas is annihilated.
The Gaza Ministry of Health reported yesterday that at least 43,799 people have died in the Palestinian enclave in more than 13 months of war. In Lebanon, the balance is 3,452 people killed in Israeli attacks in the same period.