New Israeli offensive in Gaza and Lebanon leaves at least 50 dead

▲ Displaced people from Beit Lahiya in the Jabaliya refugee camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip.Xinhua Photo

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Saturday, October 26, 2024, p. 18

Cairo., Israel killed more than 50 people yesterday through bombings in Gaza and Lebanon, before its attack on Iran.

An Israeli army raid in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip killed at least 38 people in one family, including 14 children, when they attacked their homes. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also fired inside the Kamal Adwan hospital, which in addition to providing medical services, provides shelter to 600 civilians in the north of the enclave, denounced the Gaza Ministry of Health. In this area, the surroundings of the city of Jabaliya have been the subject of an intense offensive that has lasted for several weeks.

The authorities added that two children in the hospital’s intensive care unit died due to the invasion of the Israeli army, when 70 members of the medical staff, 195 patients and their companions were there. The IDF destroyed three ambulances, a transport vehicle and a power generator at the hospital.

Additionally, Gaza Health reported that many of the victims of Israeli attacks on homes in southeastern Khan Younis were women and children.

The Israeli army claimed that its forces killed several armed Palestinians in air and ground attacks in the south of the enclave and dismantled military infrastructure.

On the other hand, Israeli attacks on three houses in the nearby Gazan city of Beit Lahiya caused 25 deaths and dozens of injuries, medical sources indicated.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) denounced the lethal slow medical evacuations for Gaza children, while the World Health Organization reported that it lost contact with its staff at the Kamal Adwan hospital following the latest IDF offensive.

Casualties for Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s army announced the death of three of its soldiers in Jabaliya during IDF operations yesterday, and five more in southern Lebanon, where at least 41 residents were also killed and 133 wounded in the most recent Israeli military attacks, reported the Ministry of Health of the invaded nation, which, in addition, recorded 125 air attacks and bombing incidents in the 24 hours prior to the report, mainly concentrated in the south of the country and in the province of Nabatieh .

On the 22nd, Israeli troops again attacked the blue helmets of the United Nations (UN) in the south of the territory, denounced the United Nations Interim Force for Lebanon (Finul)

Similarly, an Israeli bombardment on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon cut off a border crossing, leaving it out of service. Among others, 430,000 people who have fled from Lebanon to Syria have crossed this point since the beginning of the escalation of the conflict with Israel, according to the United Nations.

Meanwhile, in northern Israel, two deaths and seven injuries were left by a rocket launched by Hezbollah, which hit a shopping center in the city of Galilee.

Meanwhile, the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said: Hezbollah lives and grows, fulfilling its historic roleand added that his country will always help the combatants and those who resist the occupation of the criminal gang that usurps Palestine.