‘At least 19 people killed, dozens injured’ in Israeli airstrike in Jabalia – Gaza Ministry of HealthA Gaza health ministry official told Reuters on Thursday that Israeli forces attacked a school sheltering displaced people in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing at least 19 Palestinians, including children.
Official Medat Abbas said dozens of people were injured in the attack, adding: “There is no water to put out the fire. There is nothing.”
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345,000 Palestinians face ‘catastrophic’ levels of hunger this winter, UN-backed assessment saysA U.N.-backed assessment report said Thursday that some 345,000 Palestinians are facing “catastrophic” levels of hunger this winter as aid supplies decline, and across the Palestinian territories. They warned of the risk of continued famine.
That number is higher than the 133,000 people currently classified as experiencing “catastrophic food insecurity,” according to a classification compiled by United Nations agencies and NGOs, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. It is said to be increasing.
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The Israeli military said dozens of militants were on the scene and carried out precision attacks on Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups’ gathering points on the compound, Reuters reported.
Hamas was not immediately available for comment.
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels vow to retaliate after US attack
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have vowed to retaliate after the United States carried out multiple attacks with B-2 heavy bombers on weapons storage facilities in areas controlled by Iranian-backed groups.
A statement from the Iran-backed Houthi political bureau said:
We make sure that US aggression will not go unanswered.
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‘At least 19 people killed, dozens injured’ in Israeli airstrike in Jabalia – Gaza Ministry of Health
A Gaza health ministry official told Reuters on Thursday that Israeli forces attacked a school sheltering displaced people in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing at least 19 Palestinians, including children.
Official Medat Abbas said dozens of people were injured in the attack, adding: “There is no water to put out the fire. There is nothing.”
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‘A new humanitarian crisis unfolds’ in Syria – Norwegian Refugee Council
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) says a “new humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Syria” as civilians forced to flee to neighboring Lebanon from the Israel-Gaza war struggle to find shelter, food, water and protection. “I’m doing it,” he warned.
Angelita Caleda, NRC’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said:
We are currently witnessing the region’s third humanitarian crisis in just 12 months, against a backdrop of numerous ongoing challenges.
Syria is already in a state of collapse after 13 years of conflict. The mass displacement from Lebanon comes at a time when the aid response is already outpacing existing needs. Thousands of families entering Syria will struggle to find a safe place to stay and the basic necessities for their children. This is a crisis of crises. ”
People enter Syria on foot from Lebanon at the Masna border crossing. Photo: Luisa Gouliamaki/Reuters
The NRC added:
More than 276,000 Lebanese and Syrians living in Lebanon have been forced to flee to Syria, most of them women and children, some of whom make it on their own. Traveling to Syria comes with its own risks. Israeli airstrikes on key border crossings between the two countries have forced thousands of people to abandon their cars and cross the border on foot, taking only what they can manage.
ShareEgyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragushi at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, on October 17, 2024. Photo: AP
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi discussed rising tensions in the region with Egyptian officials in Cairo on Thursday during the first visit by a senior Iranian official in nearly a decade.
The Associated Press reports:
Aragushi met with Egypt’s Badr Abdellatti and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, focusing on Israel’s efforts to escalate the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon.
El-Sissi renewed his call for an end to Israel’s war in Gaza to prevent it from escalating into a regional conflict. Any escalation of the war would have serious implications for the security and capabilities of all countries in the region, he added.
The Egyptian president also called for an end to the escalation in Lebanon and violations in the West Bank, and to ensure the delivery of much-needed humanitarian aid.
Araghchi’s visit to Egypt is part of a broader diplomatic tour in the region aimed at easing tensions. This month, he will meet with officials from Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, Oman and Iraq, and is expected to complete talks in Egypt before heading to Turkey.
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An airstrike occurred near the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tire on Thursday, AFPTV footage showed, as Israeli forces issued an evacuation call and official media reported an Israeli attack.
AFPTV footage showed smoke rising after Israeli forces in X warned residents in and near al-Haush buildings, just south of Tire, to evacuate, and Lebanon’s state news agency reported that “enemy aircraft・We have launched an attack targeting Horche.” – Hoche area, according to AFP news agency.
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The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said Thursday that at least 42,438 Palestinians have been killed and 99,246 injured since October 7.
The death toll includes 29 deaths in the past 24 hours, and 99,246 people have been injured in Gaza since the war began, the ministry said.
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People claim that foreign doctors returning from Gaza are lying. I wish that were the case, because the truth is more horrifying than scary.
First, there’s the bomb. With a bang, 2,000 pounds of destructive force flattened everything in its way. Limbs were severed, bodies vaporized, and craters filled with blood and debris were left where children had played.
Next comes the drone. As the dust settles, drones begin to swarm and pick off the survivors. Armed quadcopter. A cleverly designed killing machine that preys on human prey. Many of the drones appear to be autonomous, photographing everything that moves. Even when it’s a helpless child, the drone sometimes fires and delivers a deadly bullet into its soft skull. A scene from a dystopian science fiction movie set on a desolate planet covered in dust. However, this is not science fiction. It’s a reality. It’s happening now in Gaza.
Bombs and drones. Bombs and drones. It was a pattern that patients repeatedly described to Dr. Nizam Mahmoud, a retired British surgeon who had recently returned from working at the dilapidated Nasser Hospital in Gaza. Mamoud, who went to Gaza with Medical Assistance for Palestinians (MAP), has worked in many conflict zones throughout his career. He was in Lebanon, Rwanda, Sudan, and Nicaragua during the genocide. But on a recent phone call, he told me what many other doctors have told many other media outlets. “He’s never seen anything like Gaza.”
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Palestinians line up for hours every day to receive food distributed by charity organizations in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, October 16. Photo: Anadolu/Getty Images A Palestinian girl carries water from a water distribution point in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17. Photo: Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Images Mohammed Abu Eissa, a 14-year-old Palestinian who lost one of his hands in an Israeli attack, learns how to use his new prosthetic arm with the help of music teacher Sama in the Nuseyrat refugee camp in Gaza. continues to play the violin. October 13th, Gaza City. Photo: Anadolu/Getty Images
The Israeli military on Thursday ordered residents to leave parts of the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon, warning that the area would once again be targeted by Israeli troops, AFP news agency reported.
Military spokesperson Avichai Adlai said of X:
We issue an urgent warning to the residents of the Bekaa region, especially those in the buildings marked on the map in the Tamuning district. You are near facilities and interests belonging to Hezbollah and will be targeted by the Armed Forces in the near future.
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Visual story by Kamil Ahmed and Ana Lucía González Paz for The Guardian, design by Ellen Wishart and Pip Burkett.
Both Gazans share the trauma of living day and night, surrounded by the noise of gunfire, missiles and drones, as hopes for peace fade and they fear being forgotten.
Drone noise has become an inevitable part of life in the Gaza Strip. At night, the sounds are interrupted by more violent intrusions: missile attacks, sirens, gunshots, and the screams of frightened people. The sonic hellscape eases at dawn, and people come out into the daylight to search for the missing, exhume bodies, and assess the damage. This contrast between day and night is documented below in audio recordings over the past year.
Here we hear of the intense stress on Gazans witnessed by two Palestinians. This is a layer of war that experts associate with long-term psychological trauma.
Some viewers may find the following footage disturbing.
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Here are some images coming to us from the Gaza Strip over the wires.
A Palestinian girl holds a cat while looking at destroyed houses in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo: Mahmoud Issa/Quds Net News/ZUMA Press/REX/Shutterstock A man walks through a destroyed street. Photo: Mahmoud Issa/Quds Net News/ZUMA Press/REX/Shutterstock A Palestinian child plays in a destroyed car. Photo: Mahmoud Issa/Quds Net News/ZUMA Press/REX/ShutterstockShareJason Burke
Iran-linked militias in Iraq have launched about 40 attacks against Israel in the past two-and-a-half weeks, using missiles, drones and rockets, and are part of a largely clandestine proxy operation across the Middle East. It’s the latest escalation in fighting.
The attacks began last October, when the war in Gaza began, but Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on Wednesday, according to data compiled by the Washington Institute, a US-based think tank. After that, the attack pace is shown to increase rapidly. September.
Hezbollah was founded with Iranian support in Lebanon more than 40 years ago and is the linchpin of a loose confederation of extremist groups created by Iran in recent decades.
Supporters of Iraq’s Hezbollah Brigades wave flags to show solidarity with Hezbollah in Najaf, Iraq. Photo: Qassem Al Kaabi/AFP/Getty Images
With Hamas greatly weakened after a year of war in Gaza and Hezbollah reeling from continued Israeli air and ground attacks in Lebanon, Tehran is closing in on a rough coalition of factions it has supported across the Middle East. They are looking to younger members to attack Gaza. Nemesis.
“The number of missiles and drones being launched from Iraq (at Israel) is huge. They are stepping up their gear to show support for Hezbollah,” said the militia group based in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. said Michael Knights, an analyst at the Washington Institute.
The missile launches from Iraq highlight not only sectarian competition but also Iran’s strategy of using members of the “Axis of Resistance” for mutual support against Israel.
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