In the face of the ongoing suffering of the Palestinian and Lebanese people amid Israel’s wars in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, Ahram Online provided you with live updates of the most recent developments across the Middle East on Sunday, 3 November, as they unfolded.
21:40 Lebanon's Hezbollah movement said it launched a barrage of missiles at an Israeli military base in the northern coastal city of Haifa.
The group said in a statement that it had targeted "for the first time the technical base of Haifa, affiliated with the Israeli air force" with a barrage of missiles, after it earlier claimed a drone attack on another military base south of the city.
21:00 Lebanon's health ministry issued an updated tally for Saturday's casualties in Israel's ongoing assault, saying Israeli strikes yesterday killed 18 people and wounded 83 others across the country.
The ministry added that at least 2,986 people had been killed and more than 13,402 wounded in Israeli attacks since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon on 8 October 2023.
19:30 Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 30 people across the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military pressed with its assault in the north of the Palestinian territory.
"Since dawn today, at least 17 citizens have been martyred in Israeli attacks on homes and citizens in the northern Gaza Strip," said Gaza's civil defence agency spokesman Mahmoud Bassal.
Among those killed were six in the town of Beit Lahia and four in Jabalia. They included women and children, he said.
Bassal told AFP that residents were "being bombed without prior warning."
Separately, Gaza medics in the south said 13 Palestinians were killed in several Israeli strikes.
Relatives mourn over the bodies of Mahmoud Foura and his son Saad Foura, who were killed during overnight Israeli bombardment, as they are prepared for burial at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. AFP
Medics from Gaza's health ministry reported "the martyrdom of nine citizens, including four children, in an Israeli air strike east of Khan Younis."
The civil defence agency said it retrieved three bodies, of a woman and her two children, after an Israeli raid on Rafah's eastern Khirbet al-Adas neighbourhood.
One more person was also reported killed, the agency added.
19:00 Iran's president said a potential ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon "could affect the intensity" of Tehran's response to Israel's recent strikes on the Islamic Republic.
"If they (the Israelis) reconsider their behaviour, accept a ceasefire and stop massacring the oppressed and innocent people of the region, it could affect the intensity and type of our response," Masoud Pezeshkian said, quoted by state news agency IRNA.
He added that Iran "will not leave unanswered any aggression against its sovereignty and security", according to the news agency.
Since launching the strikes last month, Israel has warned Iran against retaliating, while Tehran vowed to respond.
Commuters drive past a billboard bearing pictures of Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian (2-L), armed forces chief of staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri (L), US President Joe Biden (2-R) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) in Vali-Asr square in Tehran on 27 October, 2024. AFP
On Saturday, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in all matters of the state, said the Islamic Republic would retaliate.
"The enemies, both the USA and the Zionist regime, should know that they will definitely receive a tooth-breaking response to what they are doing against Iran, the Iranian nation, and the resistance front," Khamenei said in a speech to students in Tehran.
18:00 An Israeli court is considering whether to lift a gag order on a case surrounding suspected leaks of classified information from an associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Critics say they were aimed at giving him political cover as Gaza ceasefire talks ground to a halt.
Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing and says no one from his office has been arrested or is under investigation. He has downplayed the affair and publicly called for the gag order to be lifted.
17:40 Turkey's foreign ministry said it had submitted a letter to the United Nations, signed by 52 countries and two organisations, calling for a halt in arms deliveries to Israel.
"We have written a joint letter calling on all countries to stop the sale of arms and ammunition to Israel. We delivered this letter, which has 54 signatories, to the UN on 1 November," said Hakan Fidan at a press conference in Djibouti, where he attended a Turkey-Africa partnership summit.
"We must repeat at every opportunity that selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide," said Fidan, who added that the letter is "an initiative launched by Turkey".
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. AFP
The signatories were Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Algeria, China, Iran, and Russia. The two organisations were the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Last month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the UN to impose an arms embargo on Israel, which he said would be an "effective solution" to end the Israeli war on Gaza.
15:30 "The Israeli enemy's raid on Haret Saida resulted in an initial death toll of three people killed and nine others injured," the ministry said.
An Israeli evacuation warning did not precede the strike.
On Sunday, another Israeli strike hit the town of Ghaziyeh, south of Sidon, the official National News Agency (NNA) said.
That strike hit a residential building, according to an AFP correspondent, who said a child was rescued from beneath the rubble.
The health ministry did not provide a death toll.
12:00 The Israeli military called for the evacuation of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, warning of an imminent strike in the area and the nearby area of Douris.
On Saturday, Lebanon's health ministry said one person was killed and 15 others were wounded in an Israeli strike near Karout Mall in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Unexpectedly, an Israeli evacuation warning did not precede the strike.
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbeck. AFP
The Israeli war has tragically claimed more than 1,900 lives in Lebanon since 23 September, according to an AFP tally based on figures from Lebanon's health ministry.
10:00 Lebanon's Hezbollah announced it targeted Israeli forces gatherings in six towns in northern Israel.
09:00 Israeli military said some 10 rockets were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel, triggering sirens south of Haifa and in communities along the border.
It added that some were intercepted, while others struck open ground.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army claimed that Farouq Amin Al-Ashi, the commander of Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon's Khiam, was killed in a recent Israeli drone strike.
It also claimed that a separate strike in Khiam killed Yousef Ahmed Noun, who Israel identifies as a company commander in Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force in the area.
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