22:35 Tor Wennesland, the Un Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said, "We are horrified" as he condemned the Israeli airstrike on a residential block in Beit Lahia, which killed more than 70 civilians on Sunday morning.
Israeli airstrikes killed more than 111 Palestinians across the entire Gaza Strip during the day.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced that two of its soldiers were killed when Palestinian fighters who emerged out of a tunnel shot them at close range.
A Palestinian woman reacts in front of the bodies of people killed in an Israeli strike at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
22:25 Lebanon's Education Minister Abbas Halabi announced Sunday that schools and higher educational institutions in Beirut and surrounding areas would close for two days after Israeli strikes hit the city centre.
In a statement, Halabi announced "the closure of official and private educational institutions and private higher education institutions" in Beirut and several nearby areas on Monday and Tuesday in favour of remote learning and urged principals and directors to "exercise caution."
22:00 Lebanon's official National News Agency said an Israeli strike on Sunday evening hit a centre of Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya in central Beirut.
"Israeli warplanes launched a strike on the Mar Elias area of the capital Beirut," the NNA said, adding that it "targeted a Jamaa Islamiya centre," referring to a Sunni Muslim group allied to Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
21:00 Israeli army radio claimed a leading commander in Hezbollah was the intended target of its airstrike on a residential building in central Beirut on Saturday.
Hezbollah has not issued any statements on the strike.
20:30 Israeli warplanes struck a residential building on Mar Elias Street in central Beirut on Sunday evening.
The strike killed one and wounded nine - two of whom are in a critical condition, according to Lebanese medical sources.
It was the second Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the heart of the Lebanese capital in less than 12 hours.
Earlier today, Israel assassinated Hezbollah's media relations chief, Mohammad Afif, in an airstrike on a building in Ras Nabaa in central Beirut.
In a statement, Hamas mourned the late Hezbollah senior official, saying his assassination reflects the moral bankruptcy of Israel.
Israel has focused its airstrikes in the Lebanese capital on Dahiya in southern Beirut, a stronghold for Hezbollah, since the start of its intensified war on Lebanon in mid-September.
Its warplanes struck the centre of the capital on a few occasions to assassinate Lebanese and Palestinian resistance leaders.
The strike in central Beirut capped another day of deadly Israeli airstrikes against villages and towns in south Lebanon and Hezbollah launching rocket salvos against Israeli military targets in Galilee.
20:00 Hundreds of protesters marched in Manchester, England, today in support of Palestine, demanding an end to the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
19:30 Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh held talks in Damascus with Major General Kifah Moulhem, director of Syria's National Security Bureau, emphasizing Tehran's continued support for Syria's fight against terrorism.
The visit comes amid intense Israeli airstrikes against Syria, a close ally of Iran, as part of its expanded wars in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
It also comes amid a protracted tit-for-tat military confrontation between Tehran and Tel Aviv, with both sides trading attacks since the spring of the year.
19:00 The Israeli army said a soldier and an officer from the 900th Kfir Brigade were killed and another seriously wounded in fierce battles in northern Gaza on Sunday.
This brings the number of Israeli soldiers killed in battles in northern Gaza since the start of an intensive assault on Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and other towns in the area in early October to 27.
18:00 Early this morning, Israel carried out a horrific massacre when it deliberately bombed a five-story residential building housing displaced families in besieged north Gaza's Beit Lahia.
The Gaza health ministry now reports that 70 Palestinians were killed in this one attack, which caused the building to collapse on its residents.
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17:30 The Lebanese army said an Israeli attack on Sunday killed two of its soldiers in south Lebanon.
"The Israeli enemy directly targeted an army centre" in Mari in the Hasbaya area, causing "the death of one of the soldiers and the wounding of three others, one of whom is in critical condition," the army said in a statement.
An army separate statement shortly afterwards said "a second soldier" had died of his wounds.
17:00 Sirens sounded in the Upper Galilee and surrounding Israeli settlements in northern Israel following a barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon.
16:00 Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed more than 111 Palestinians since the early hours of Sunday morning, most of them in northern Gaza.
14:55 Pope Francis called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s war in Gaza constitutes genocide, according to excerpts released Sunday from an upcoming new book ahead of the pontiff’s jubilee year.
It’s the first time that Francis has openly urged for an investigation of genocide accusations over Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip. In September, he said Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon have been “immoral” and disproportionate and that its military has gone beyond the rules of war.
“According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide,” the pope said in excerpts published Sunday by the Italian daily La Stampa.
The book, by Hernán Reyes Alcaide and based on interviews with the Pope, is entitled “Hope never disappoints. Pilgrims towards a better world.” It will be released on Tuesday ahead of the pope’s 2025 jubilee.
14:30 Two Lebanese security sources told Reuters that Hezbollah's media relations chief Mohammad Afif was killed in an Israeli strike on a building in a densely populated district of Beirut on Sunday.
According to Reuters, the strike in the Ras Al-Nabaa neighbourhood targeted a building where the Ba'ath Party offices are located.
The head of the party in Lebanon told Lebanese broadcaster Al-Jadeed Afif was in the building, though Hezbollah had no immediate confirmation.
The Israeli military declined to comment in response to questions from Reuters.
Earlier, Lebanon's health ministry said at least one person was killed and three others wounded Sunday in an Israeli strike on Ras al-Nabaa.
The central Beirut district has been sheltering people displaced by Israel’s carpet bombing of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Ambulances could be heard rushing to the scene, and bursts of gunfire rang out to prevent crowds of people from approaching the location.
The "Israeli enemy strike on Ras Al-Nabaa led to a preliminary toll of one dead and three others wounded," a ministry statement said, adding that work was ongoing to remove rubble from the site of the strike.
14:00 Lebanese state media reported an Israeli strike on a central Beirut district, as a security source claimed it targeted the Lebanese branch of the Syrian Baath party, AFP reported.
"The enemy carried out a strike on Ras Al-Nabaa," the official National News Agency said, an area near the French embassy and a university.
The security source, requesting anonymity, told AFP the strike targeted" the Lebanese branch of the Syrian Baath party," whose office, he claimed, is located "in an apartment."
13:30 Hundreds of cultural professionals, including archaeologists and academics, called on the United Nations to safeguard war-torn Lebanon's heritage in a petition published before a crucial UNESCO meeting.
Several Israeli strikes in recent weeks on Baalbek in the east and Tyre in the south hit close to ancient Roman ruins designated as UNESCO World Heritage sites.
The petition, signed by 300 prominent cultural figures, was sent to UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay a day before a special session in Paris to consider listing Lebanese cultural sites under "enhanced protection."
It urges UNESCO to protect Baalbek and other heritage sites by establishing "no-target zones" around them, deploying international observers, and enforcing measures from the 1954 Hague Convention on cultural heritage in conflict.
13:00 An Israeli artillery shelling targeted the outskirts of the town of Shama in the Tyre district, southern Lebanon, according to Al Jazeera.
12:30 The health ministry in Gaza said that at least 43,846 people have been killed in more than 13 months of the Israeli war on Gaza.
The toll includes 47 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry, which said 103,740 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war began.
11:55 A barrage of some 20 rockets was launched from Lebanon at the Western Galilee and Haifa Bay area an hour ago, the Israeli army said.
The army added in a statement that air defences intercepted some of the rockets while the rest struck open areas, causing no injuries.
11:50 Hezbollah said its fighters targeted the Kiryat area, north of Haifa, with a rocket barrage.
Earlier, the Lebanese group announced it targeted the Israeli "Ma'aleh Golani" barracks, the headquarters of the Hermon Brigade 810 in northern Israel.
It also added that it fired rockets at an Israeli force gathering on the southern outskirts of the town of Khiyam in south Lebanon.
11:35 Hamas condemned the massacre committed by the Israeli army in Beit Lahia as an escalation of the genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign, as well as a brutal act of vengeance against defenceless civilians.
“The ongoing brutal massacres, genocide, and starvation campaign aimed at displacing our people and liquidating our national cause will not succeed in achieving its objectives or breaking the will of our people,” Hamas said in a statement.
People search for victims amid the rubble inside a building hit in an overnight Israeli strike in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. AFP
The Palestinian resistance group called on the international community, the United Nations, and the Arab and Islamic governments to break their state of impotence and silence in the face of Israel’s crimes and to take immediate action to stop the ongoing massacres in the Gaza Strip, particularly in the north.
11:25 A former Israeli army general stated that the army has not defeated the Hamas resistance movement "up until now."
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority quoted Yitzhak Brick as saying that the army is exhausted, with soldiers increasingly refusing to serve.
The retired general also criticized the appointment of an unqualified new defence minister, referring to Yoav Gallant's dismissal and his replacement by Yisrael Katz. He added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the actual defence minister.
Regarding the northern front, Brick acknowledged that "Israel struck Hezbollah in Lebanon forcefully, but we are still far from eliminating it."
On the ground incursion into southern Lebanon, he noted, "Our forces have advanced 3 kilometres deep but are not equipped to push further."
11:20 Three suspects were arrested, Israeli police said, after two flares landed near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in the central town of Caesarea.
According to a police statement, a court ordered that the investigation or the suspects' identities be kept secret for 30 days.
The speaker of Israel's parliament, Amir Ohana, accused anti-government protesters of being behind the incident.
In the nine months before the Gaza war, Israel saw mass protests over a divisive judicial overhaul introduced by Netanyahu's far-right government that opponents called a threat to Israeli democracy.
Though the reforms were suspended when the war broke out, protests against Netanyahu and his government have continued, alongside demonstrations calling for a deal to release captives held in Gaza.
11:10 Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the eastern neighbourhoods of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported.
In northern Gaza, Palestinian media reported that Israeli occupation forces continued to demolish homes in the Jabalia refugee camp. The destruction is being carried out using robots and explosive barrels, leading to the complete obliteration of entire residential neighbourhoods.
11:00 At least 50 Palestinians, most of whom are children, were killed, and dozens were injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Beit Lahia project in the northern Gaza Strip, WAFA news agency reported.
The strike targeted a five-story residential building housing displaced families, WAFA said, noting that several people remain missing under the rubble.
According to rescue teams, the residential building housed about 70 people, including many children, women, and elderly individuals.
Eyewitnesses stated that rescue efforts in Beit Lahia face significant challenges due to continued bombing by the Israeli forces in the area and the absence of medical and rescue services caused by the blockade.
10:45 New Israeli air raids struck Beirut's southern suburbs in rapid succession, shortly after the Israeli army warned people to leave Hadath, Burj Al-Barajneh, and Chiyah.
Lebanon's official National News Agency said "enemy aircraft" launched a heavy strike near St. George's Hospital in Hadath.
Another attack hit a residential building near Mar Mikhail Church in Chiyah, the NNA said.
10:30 Several female students suffered from suffocation following an incursion by Israeli occupation forces into the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
According to the Directorate of Education, as reported by WAFA, occupation soldiers fired tear gas grenades at students of Al-Khader Basic School as they were entering the school, resulting in several cases of suffocation among the students.
10:15 Israeli media reported that dozens of protesters blocked the entrance to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in occupied Jerusalem, demanding the government's resignation and a captive-prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
10:00 An Israeli strike hit south Beirut on Sunday, hours after Hezbollah said it fired on Israeli bases around the city of Haifa.
A column of smoke rose over the capital's southern suburbs, AFPTV footage showed, following a warning from the Israeli military for residents to evacuate three areas.
Further south, overnight Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling hit the flashpoint southern town of Khiam, some six kilometres (four miles) from the border, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported early Sunday.
The bombardment came after Israel's military reported a "heavy rocket barrage" on Haifa late Saturday and said a synagogue was hit, wounding two civilians.
Hezbollah fired around 80 projectiles at Israel on Saturday, the military said.
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