In the past 24 hours, Israel has killed at least 30 people and wounded 66 others in Gaza, and another 12 Palestinians in the West Bank. In addition, an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon has killed at least five people.
A week after the Israeli bombing that killed top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr and six other people on the outskirts of Beirut, the Middle East is on high alert awaiting the response to the attack. Iran promised after the assassination a day later in Tehran of the political leader of the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyehalso attributed to the Zionist state.
While, attacks and violence continue in the whole area. So at least five people Are they dead, Four of them were members of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollahin an attack carried out by Israel on a building in the city Maifadunin the South Lebanonas the exchange of fire between the sides and shelling on both sides of the border continues.
Moreover, Israel has at least killed 30 persons and injured 66 others in the past 24 hours in the Gaza StripThis is evident from figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Since October 7, almost ten months ago, Israeli forces have killed 39,653 people and wounded more than 91,500 in the devastated Gaza Stripsubjected to continuous bombardment by Israel. Health authorities estimate that the bodies of about 10,000 missing They remain buried under the rubble.
The Israeli military announced on Tuesday a halt to activities along the entire humanitarian aid access route Kerem Shalom Crossingin the far southeast of Gaza, claiming that the cause was an attack with anti-tank missiles on soldiers who were near this road.
Delivery of 84 bodies
On Monday, Israeli authorities handed over the bodies of 84 Palestinians who had been removed by Israeli forces from cemeteries in the Gaza Strip. in an advanced state of decomposition, chopped to pieces and unrecognizable.
The bodies arrived wrapped in blue tarpaulins in the back of a truck and were buried in the Turkish Khan Younis cemetery in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Hamas has denounced the “complete state of decomposition” of the bodies, which makes identification of the bodies impossible. “It is a sadistic crime without precedent in human history”the Palestinian group has stressed.
Twelve dead in occupied West Bank
In West Bank At least 12 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the past 24 hours, according to official sources, amid a wave of unprecedented violence in the area since the Second Intifada.
Israeli intelligence services have used drones loaded with explosives during operations in Jeninand the men in uniform were confronted by armed militiamen, who threw explosives at them, according to a military statement, which said one soldier was slightly injured.
Last Saturday, Israel bombed the city in the West Bank Tulkaremin which a total of nine militiamen were killed.
The occupied West Bank is experiencing the worst spiral of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-2005), with at least 276 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire so far in 2024, most of them militia members or attackers, but also civilians, including some 51 minors. 2023 ended as the deadliest year in two decades with over 520 deaths.
On the Israeli side, twenty people have been killed this year: eleven uniformed soldiers and nine civilians, five of whom were settlers.
Source: EITB
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