22:40 Israeli warplanes conducted a series of airstrikes across various regions of Lebanon, according to the Lebanese NNA.
Targets included Marj Zbideen, Rumin, and Haboush, as well as the area between Briqaa and Zrariyeh in southern Lebanon.
In the western Bekaa region, airstrikes hit the Mashghara plain, the surroundings of Zlayya, and the Jbour hills, with additional raids on Zlayya reported.
22:10 Speaking to diplomats at the Vatican, Pope Francis called for a renewed commitment to peace, marking the 40th anniversary of a historic peace agreement between Chile and his native Argentina.
In his address, Francis criticized the global arms trade, calling out "the hypocrisy of speaking about peace and playing at war."
He warned that this double standard "always leads us to failure."
The Pope highlighted the suffering in Palestine, where he has frequently expressed concern for Gaza amid escalating violence.
22:00 Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli strikes killed at least 31 people across the war-battered country on Monday.
A ministry statement listed "the casualty toll of Israeli enemy strikes on a number of Lebanese cities and towns" in Lebanon's east, south and near Beirut, with most of them killed in the south and four killed in the east.
21:50 Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes across southern Lebanon, targeting multiple towns and residential areas, according to the Lebanese NNA.
Strikes were reported in the towns of Ansar, Marjayoun, and al-Ghazieh, as well as Toul, with significant damage to residential neighbourhoods.
Bombing raids also targeted Hanin, Baraachit, Khirbet Selm, and al-Sultaniyah in the Bint Jbeil district, alongside artillery shelling in the Wadi al-Khansa area near Rashaya al-Fakhar.
A home in Bazourieh was struck, resulting in the deaths of two individuals and injuries to another.
Rescue teams are continuing to search the rubble for missing persons. Additional strikes in Tyre targeted a building on Carthage Street, causing casualties and prompting emergency responses.
The Israeli military also issued its fourth evacuation warning of the day to residents in Ghobeiry and Haret Hreik, escalating fears of further strikes.
Hezbollah responded by claiming to fire a rocket barrage at Israeli military positions south of Khiam, marking the second such attack of the day.
21:30 Syrian state television reported Israeli strikes on several bridges in the Qusayr region near the Lebanese border on Monday, with the defence ministry reporting two civilians injured in the attacks.
Israel's military has intensified its strikes on targets in Syria since its war on Lebanon escalated into full-scale war in late September after almost a year of cross-border hostilities with Hezbollah.
"An Israeli aggression targeted the bridges of Al-Jubaniyeh, Al-Daf, Arjoun, and the Al-Nizariyeh Gate in the Qusayr area," state television said, with official news agency SANA reporting damage in the attacks.
21:10 France said that "significant progress" had been made in ceasefire talks between Israel and Lebanon, urging them to seize "this opportunity as soon as possible".
"Discussions on a ceasefire along the Blue Line have made significant progress," the French presidency said. "We hope that the relevant parties will seize this opportunity as soon as possible."
20:50 The Executive Board of UNESCO overwhelmingly adopted a resolution supporting the continuation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) educational activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Out of 58 member states, 50 voted in favour, while four opposed the resolution. Two countries abstained, and two others were absent during the vote.
The extraordinary session was convened at the request of 12 member states, including Qatar, Turkey, South Africa, and Pakistan, in response to Israeli Knesset laws that threaten UNRWA’s operations.
These laws pose a significant risk to the continuation of UNRWA’s educational services in Palestine, which could severely impact thousands of Palestinian students reliant on the agency for schooling.
20:30 The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that Israeli authorities have detained more than 435 Palestinian women since the start of the aggression on Gaza, encompassing arrests in the West Bank, occupied Jerusalem, and within Israel’s 1948 borders.
Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, PPS highlighted that while many women detained from Gaza have been released, an undisclosed number remain in custody, subjected to enforced disappearance in Israeli detention camps.
Currently, 94 Palestinian women are in Israeli prisons, including four from Gaza. Among them are 31 administrative detainees, 33 mothers, 25 university students, six journalists, and two lawyers, PPS revealed.
The society condemned the escalation of violence against Palestinian women, describing the current phase as "the bloodiest" in the history of the conflict. It further stated that women are enduring unprecedented crimes and severe violations, including sexual assaults, amid the ongoing war and mass detentions.
PPS called for urgent action to address the systematic targeting of Palestinian women and to hold Israeli authorities accountable for violations of international law.
20:15 The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health reported that 14 people were killed and 73 injured on Sunday, November 24, 2024, due to Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon.
According to the ministry's Emergency Health Operations Center, the total toll since the beginning of the Israeli war stands at 3,768 fatalities and 15,699 injuries.
20:00 The United States believes a ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah is "close" but negotiations are still ongoing, the White House said.
"We believe we've reached this point where we're close," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters, adding however that "we're not there yet."
"We believe that the trajectory of this is going in a very positive direction -- but again nothing is done until everything is done, nothing is negotiated until everything is negotiated."
Kirby said it would be "irresponsible" to confirm press reports about the contents of any deal, adding that he did not want to do "anything that might torpedo our chances."
President Joe Biden had been monitoring the progress of ceasefire talks "very closely" and had been in direct contact with US envoy Amos Hochstein, who visited the region last week, he added.
Kirby would not confirm reports in Saudi media that Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron were set to announce a deal on Tuesday, saying only that the two leaders spoke on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict last week.
19:00 Israeli Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu has expressed opposition to a potential agreement with Lebanon, according to Israeli Army Radio.
Eliyahu stated his resistance to the deal but suggested that under certain circumstances, it could be strategically advantageous.
"If we want to buy time until Trump takes office, the agreement might be appropriate," Eliyahu was quoted as saying, referencing the possibility of former U.S. President Donald Trump returning to power.
18:40 The Gaza Government Media Office says about 10,000 tents have been washed away or damaged by the winter storm. It is appealing for international help to provide displaced families with tents to shield them against the rain.
“According to government field assessment teams, 81 percent of the displaced persons’ tents are no longer usable. Out of 135,000 tents, 110,000 are completely worn out and urgently need replacement,” it said in a statement.
18:35 UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon expressed worry over deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanese soldiers, despite the army staying away from fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.
"UNIFIL is seriously concerned by numerous strikes on the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) inside the Lebanese territories," the peacekeepers said in a statement. The army has reported 19 members killed while on active duty.
18:20 A ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon may be signed by the end of this week or sooner, Israeli news outlet Maariv reported.
Sources familiar told Maariv that the negotiations indicated that the settlement had reached maturity last week but was delayed after the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Despite opposition from Israel’s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, the majority needed for the agreement's approval is reportedly secure in both the cabinet and the government. The political-security cabinet is expected to convene to finalize the arrangement after the agreements between the parties are completed.
Negotiators initially feared the ICC’s decision might prompt Lebanon, influenced by Iran, to harden its stance. However, talks have since resumed and progressed to their final stage, Maariv reported.
Separately, US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron are expected to announce a 60-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon on Tuesday morning, according to Saudi news outlet Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.
18:15 A senior UN official called on all parties involved in the conflict in Lebanon to "accept a ceasefire," as new Israeli strikes targeted Beirut's southern suburbs.
"The situation remains grave across the region," senior envoy Muhannad Hadi told the Security Council on behalf of UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland.
"Israeli military operations continued across the Blue Line with Lebanon, as did the firing of rockets by Hezbollah toward Israel, including a barrage this weekend," he said.
UN senior envoy Muhannad Hadi speaking to the Security Council on behalf of UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland. AFP
"I welcome the ongoing diplomatic efforts to reach a cessation of hostilities and urge the parties to accept a ceasefire anchored in the full implementation of UNSCR 1701," Hadi said in the remarks.
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah and stipulates that only UN peacekeeping forces and the Lebanese army can be deployed in southern Lebanon.
18:00 The Israeli military threatens to bomb four buildings in the areas of Haret Hreik, Ghobeiry, and Hadath, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
17:35 A senior Israeli official told Reuters that the Israeli cabinet is set to convene on Tuesday to approve a ceasefire deal with Lebanon.
Another official indicated that the cabinet would discuss terms that could finalize the agreement within days, signalling progress in efforts to end the war with Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, Reuters reported that members of the Biden administration informed Lebanese officials that a ceasefire may be announced in the coming hours.
The US news outlet Axios also reported that both Israel and Lebanon had agreed to the terms of the deal
15:49 Lebanon's health ministry said 12 people were killed in Israeli strikes on two locations in south Lebanon's Tyre district.
The ministry, in separate statements, reported a strike on a road near the city of Tyre that left "six dead and body parts" requiring identification, as well as four wounded, while another left "six dead and four wounded" in the town of Maaraka.
15:41 Hezbollah announced in separate statements that its fighters targeted a group of Israeli forces who had fortified themselves in a house on the southern outskirts of the village of Al-Bayada, a gathering of Israeli troops in the Avivim settlement, and a gathering of Israeli forces in the Meron settlement for the second time today.
14:59 Lebanon’s deputy parliament speaker has accused Israel of ramping up its bombardment of Lebanon in order to pressure the government to make concessions in indirect ceasefire negotiations.
Elias Bousaab said that the pressure has increased because “we are close to the hour that is decisive regarding reaching a ceasefire.”
“We are optimistic, and there is hope, but nothing is guaranteed with a person like (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu),” Bousaab told reporters.
The United States is trying to broker an agreement in which Hezbollah fighters and Israeli forces would withdraw from southern Lebanon and Lebanese troops would patrol the region, along with a UN peacekeeping force.
Israel has demanded freedom of action to strike Hezbollah if it violates the ceasefire, but Bousaab said that was not part of the emerging agreement.
He also said Israel had accepted that France be part of the committee overseeing the ceasefire after Lebanese officials insisted.
Israel has objected to France being on the committee in the wake of the International Criminal Court’s decision last week to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu, his former defense minister and a Hamas military commander.
14:37 An Israeli rights group said that more than a quarter of all Palestinian prisoners currently held by Israel had contracted scabies since an outbreak was identified in May, and accused the prison authority of improper care and prevention.
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said that more than 2,800 prisoners had caught the rash-like infection, with more than 1,700 still actively infected.
The outbreak was seen in five different detention facilities, the group said. It was citing figures it said came from the Israel Prison Service.
The group said it filed a legal petition calling on the prison service “ to eradicate the scabies epidemic,” accusing the authorities of failing “to implement widely recognized medical interventions necessary to contain the outbreak.”
It said that at a court hearing on Monday, the prison service said it would ensure that it would implement a plan to treat the inmates and prevent the spread. The prison service said the court had cancelled the petition because the prisons had shown they were dealing with the outbreak in a “systematic and thorough” way.
Nadav Davidovich, an Israeli public health expert who wrote a medical analysis for the group’s court proceedings, said the outbreak was a result of overcrowding in prisons and apparent neglect from prison authorities. He said such outbreaks could be prevented if prisoners were held “in more reasonable conditions.” If the first infections were treated as needed, such an outbreak could have been avoided, he said.
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel also said that the Israel Prison Service had cited scabies as a reason for postponing lawyers' visits and court appearances for prisoners. It said those steps “violate prisoners’ rights and serve as punitive measures rather than public health responses.”
14:40 In an updated toll, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported that 6 people were killed and 4 were injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Bass road in Tyre district, southern Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes targeted the city of Baalbek and the Wadi Umm Ali area in the Bekaa region, eastern Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported.
14:19 Seven Palestinians were killed, and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting various areas across the Gaza Strip, medical sources told WAFA.
In the Jabalia Al-Nazla area, north of the Strip, Israeli airstrikes killed five people and injured several others in an attack on a gathering of civilians.
Two more civilians were killed, and others were wounded in an Israeli bombing near the gate of the Indonesian Hospital, also in northern Gaza.
Furthermore, Israeli artillery targeted displaced people in the Al-Manshiya neighborhood, areas around shelters in Beit Lahia, and the Tal al-Zaatar area in the Jabalia camp, all in northern Gaza.
The body of a child, a victim of Israeli strike, lies in a body bag at the morgue of a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip. AP
14:16 At least one Palestinian was killed and others injured in Israeli shelling of Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
14:00 Britain would follow due process if Benjamin Netanyahu visited the UK, foreign minister David Lammy said when asked if London would fulfil the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against the Israeli prime minister, Reuters reported.
"We are signatories to the Rome Statute, we have always been committed to our obligations under international law and international humanitarian law," Lammy told reporters at a G7 meeting in Italy.
“Of course, if there were to be such a visit to the UK, there would be a court process and due process would be followed in relation to those issues,” he added.
13:45 The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that two people were killed and 13 others injured in an initial toll of three Israeli strikes on the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon.
Buildings razed to the ground—this is what Nabatieh also in southern Lebanon looks like after the devastating Israeli raid on the city.
13:33 The situation in Gaza remains devastating, with Israel having killed at least 44,235 people, mostly women and children, over more than 13 months of war on the besieged Palestinian territory, according to the latest toll.
This includes 24 people killed and injured 71 others in the past 24 hours. The Health Ministry also reported that 104,638 people have been wounded in Gaza since October 2023.
Men pray before the funeral of a victim of an overnight Israeli strike, outside the hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip. AP
13:00 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), condemned the continued Israeli attacks on Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. In a post on X, he revealed that the latest strikes over the past 48 hours have resulted in 14 additional injuries, including the hospital director and the few remaining doctors and nurses still working under dire conditions. He described the situation as "deplorable."
The hospital, already overwhelmed by the ongoing war, continues to care for 65 adult patients with injuries, 13 child patients, and 8 individuals in the intensive care unit who require immediate and sustained medical attention.
“The attacks on Kamal Adwan Hospital must stop immediately,” Ghebreyesus urged.
He called for the establishment of safe passage for a humanitarian mission, , so that health personnel can be deployed and medical supplies provided for the remaining patients.
Gaza's healthcare system faces collapse under relentless Israeli bombardment and severe resource shortages.
12:13 UAE authorities identified the suspects in the murder of Israeli rabbi and ex-soldier Tzvi Kogan in the Gulf country last week, saying the three alleged perpetrators are from Uzbekistan.
"The authorities revealed the identities of the three perpetrators, all of whom are Uzbek nationals," said an interior ministry statement carried by the official WAM news agency.
Kogan was an emissary for the ultra-Orthodox Chabad Hasidic movement in the UAE.
According to Israeli outlet Ynet, he had previously served as a soldier in the Israeli army's Givati Brigade, whose members have been carrying out deadly military operations in the Gaza Strip since October 7 last year.
12:00 "Where should we go?" asks a displaced Palestinian man in Khan Younis, after his tent was destroyed by rising sea tides and rainwater.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians, already enduring the brutal Israeli war and continuous forced displacement, urgently need new tents and other aid as seasonal flooding and the onset of winter worsen their hardships.
11:45 The Israeli army said that a rocket was fired from northern Gaza towards the Kfar Aza colonial settlement near Gaza's borders, and it landed in an open area.
Meanwhile, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades announced that they launched heavy mortar shells at an Israeli occupation forces' command and control centre in Netzarim Corridor, central Gaza Strip.
11:15 Hezbollah announced that it launched a rocket barrage targeting the Israeli Sharaga base, the administrative headquarters of the Golani Brigade, north of Acre.
11:02 The Civil Defence in Gaza has received dozens of urgent pleas from displaced people whose tents have been flooded by rainwater, Al Jazeera reported.
"The occupation forces are preventing our teams from operating in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip for the 34th consecutive day", the Civil Defense told Al Jazeera.
It warned that there is a possibility of halting its services completely in Gaza City due to fuel shortages."
"We are unable to reach hundreds of missing people trapped under the rubble of their homes, specifically in Jabalia and Beit Lahia," it added.
"The first rains of the winter season mean even more suffering. Around half a million people are at risk in areas of flooding,"UNRWA said.
The situation will only get worse with every drop of rain, every bomb, every strike."
11:00 Israeli occupation forces detained at least 18 Palestinian citizens from the occupied West Bank, including a child and former prisoners, WAFA news agency reported.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club and the Palestinian Authority's Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission said that the arrests followed large-scale raids, destruction, and damage to citizens' homes, along with field interrogations in several towns.
The Israeli ccupation forces have detained at least 11,800 citizens from the West Bank, including Jerusalem since the beginning of the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza.
10:37 Israel and Lebanon are on the verge of a ceasefire, two senior Israeli officials and two US officials told Axios.
The draft ceasefire agreement includes a 60-day transition period during which the Israeli army would withdraw from southern Lebanon, the Lebanese army would deploy in areas close to the border and Hezbollah would move its heavy weapons north of the Litani River.
The draft agreement includes a US-led oversight committee to monitor implementation and address violations, according to Axios.
Axiox claims that Washington has agreed to give Israel a letter of assurances that includes support for Israeli army operations against imminent threats from Lebanese territory, and for action to disrupt things like the re-establishment of a Hezbollah presence near the border or the smuggling of heavy weapons, Israeli and US officials said.
Under the agreement, Israel would take such action after consultations with Washington, and if the Lebanese military did not deal with the threat, Axios said.
Netanyahu held a meeting about the ceasefire talks on Sunday that included several senior ministers and intelligence chiefs, Israeli officials say.
A decision was taken to move towards the agreement, according to one senior Israeli official, who said an announcement could come this week.
Two senior American officials with direct knowledge of the issue said the parties were getting close to a deal, but it was not completed.
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said Wednesday his group would not accept any truce with the Israeli side that violates Lebanese sovereignty.
Hezbollah seeks a "complete and comprehensive end to the aggression" and "the preservation of Lebanon's sovereignty ... the Israeli enemy cannot enter (Lebanese territory) whenever it wants," Qassem said in a pre-recorded, televised speech.
"We are facing Israeli monsters supported by major American monsters," he added.
10:35 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a decision requiring government-funded entities to refrain from interacting with the Haaretz newspaper or placing advertisements in it.
This decision came after the newspaper's owner, Amos Schocken, stated that "Israel labels Palestinian freedom fighters as terrorists."
The Israeli government justified the decision, claiming what it described as Haaretz's numerous editorials that "harmed Israel's legitimacy and its right to self-defence," particularly Schocken's statements.
In response, Haaretz described the government's decision to boycott the newspaper as "opportunistic" and emphasized that it was passed without legal review.
The newspaper stated, "This decision is yet another step in Netanyahu's journey to dismantle Israeli democracy. Haaretz will not back down nor turn into a government pamphlet that publishes messages approved by the government and its leader."
In a speech delivered at the Haaretz conference in London last month, Amos Schocken stated that "Netanyahu's government shows no concern about imposing a harsh apartheid system on the Palestinian population. It disregards the costs borne by both sides to defend the settlements while fighting Palestinian freedom fighters, whom Israel labels as terrorists."
10:31 Israel launched another raid on the southern suburb of Beirut. The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) said that Israeli warplanes carried out two consecutive airstrikes near the Haret Hreik area.
10:05 Some 20 rockets were fired from Lebanon toward the Upper Galilee and Western Galilee areas in the recent Hezbollah rocket barrage, the Israeli army said.
According to the army, some of the rockets were intercepted and some were found to have impacted inside Israel.
Earlier, the Israeli medics said two Israelis were wounded in Hezbollah rocket attacks targeting Nahariya and Nazareth in northern Israel.
10:04 Save the Children Organization reported that around 130,000 children under the age of ten have been trapped for 50 days in northern Gaza.
The organization said that food, water, and medical supplies have been cut off for the children in the besieged northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Civilians in Gaza face relentless danger as they flee their besieged homes, with no safe refuge and constant movement between life-threatening areas, the UN warned.
“They've been trapped in their homes for weeks, fleeing for their lives with nowhere safe to go,” UNRWA Senior Communications Officer Louise Wateridge said.
Speaking from an UNRWA school in Gaza City, which is in the north of the Strip, Wateridge said that, for almost 50 days, UN humanitarian missions have attempted to deliver supplies to northern Gaza, including besieged areas such as Jabalia, but access to those in desperate need has been extremely limited.
"I have heard absolutely horrific stories today, speaking to families who fled Jabalia for their lives. They say there was just nothing left. It was absolutely flattened. There was death around them. They ran out of food. They had no access to water," she said.
They reached UNRWA schools like this one, searching for safety but, days after arriving, airstrikes which killed many of the people sheltering here. And we've seen six such incidents on UN school shelters.
She further explained that "Since this siege began, we have had this horrible situation where people are forced to flee for their lives from the besieged north; they come to Gaza City looking for safety, but the danger just keeps following them. Death and destruction are their shadows."
10:00 Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei addressing Basij forces said " what the Zionist regime has committed and Lebanon is not a victory, it is a war crime. Issuing an arrest warrant is not enough. There must be death sentences for Netanyahu and the criminal leaders of the regime.
In comments delivered to the Basij force, a division within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Khamenei said “The fools should not think that just because they bomb people’s homes, hospitals and communities, they have won. No, nobody considers this a victory.”
"These fools are intensifying and expanding the Resistance Front with their own actions," he added, as reported by Iran’s Tasnim news agency.
09:55 A Guardian investigation has found that Israel used a US munition to target and kill three journalists and wound three more in a 25 October attack in south Lebanon which legal experts have called a potential war crime.
On 25 October at 3.19 am, an Israeli jet shot two bombs at a chalet hosting three journalists – cameraman Ghassan Najjar and technician Mohammad Reda from al-Mayadeen channel, as well as cameraman Wissam Qassem from al-Manar.
All three were killed in their sleep in the attack which also wounded three other journalists from different outlets staying nearby. There was no fighting in the area before or at the time of the strike.
The Guardian visited the site, interviewed the owner of the property and journalists present at the time of the attack, analysed shrapnel found at the strike site, and geo-located Israeli surveillance equipment in range of the journalists’ positions.
Based on the Guardian’s findings, three experts in international humanitarian law said the attack could constitute a war crime and called for further investigation.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Israeli strike that killed the three journalists was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians and an apparent war crime.
In a statement released by HRW, the NGO says it determined that “Israeli forces carried out the attack using an air-dropped bomb equipped with a United States-produced Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance kit."
“The US government should suspend weapons transfers to Israel because of the military’s repeated, unlawful attacks on civilians, for which US officials may be complicit in war crimes,” the statement read.
The US government should suspend weapons transfers to Israel because of the military’s repeated, unlawful attacks on civilians, for which US officials may be complicit in war crimes, HRW added.
“Israel’s use of US arms to unlawfully attack and kill journalists away from any military target is a terrible mark on the United States as well as Israel,” said Richard Weir, senior crisis, conflict and arms researcher at Human Rights Watch.
“The Israeli military’s previous deadly attacks on journalists without any consequences give little hope for accountability in this or future violations against the media.”
09:37 Four Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, WAFA news agency reported citing medical sources.
Additionally, medics from the Red Crescent reported transporting five injured individuals to Al-Awda Hospital in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, following an Israeli artillery shelling on homes north of the camp.
Israel’s has killed at least 44,211 Palestinians, and wounded 104,567 others in Gaza since October 7, 2023, in a preliminary toll, as thousands of victims remain trapped under the rubble and in the streets, where rescue teams are unable to reach them.
09:34 G7 foreign ministers are meeting near Rome for two days of talks with regional counterparts on the Middle East.
The Group of Seven ministers will also discuss the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant, "and the possible effects on the current crises in Lebanon and Gaza", Italy's foreign ministry said.
The first session on Monday afternoon will be dedicated to the situation in the Middle East and the Red Sea, notably efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will attend the talks in Fiuggi and Anagni alongside ministers from fellow G7 nations Britain, Canada, Germany, France and Japan, hosted by Italy's Antonio Tajani.
One session will include ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as well as the secretary general of the Arab League, Rome said.
"We have asked for the presence of partners in the region to foster dialogue with the members of the G7," Tajani said in a statement.
09:04 A Palestinian child and a young man were killed by Israeli occupation forces on Sunday evening in the town of Ya'bad, southwest of Jenin.
The occupation forces stormed the town from its eastern entrance, sparking confrontations during which Israel fired live ammunition, killing a 16-year-old Mohammad Rabi' Jamal Hamarsheh and 20-year-old Ahmad Mahmoud Zaid, WAFA reported.
Medical sources and eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli soldiers fired intensively and at close range, targeting the upper parts of Hamarsheh and Zaid's bodies.
The soldiers prevented ambulances from accessing the two Palestinians until they confirmed their deaths.
09:00 Israel’s army intensified its bombardment of villages and towns across the Nabatieh governorate in southern Lebanon overnight, the National News Agency (NNA) reported, amid "fierce" clashes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters near the town of Khiam.
An Israeli airstrike on Deir al-Zahrani killed at least one person, while 15 houses were destroyed in the town of Yammer al-Shaqif, according to the NNA.
In Khiam, Israeli forces carried out "massive bombings" as ground troops in Merkava tanks attempted to advance on the town. Hezbollah fighters engaged the troops in fierce clashes, striking two of the tanks.
Additional confrontations were reported on the outskirts of Shamaa and al-Bayyaada.
The NNA noted Israeli troop activity in Deir Mimas, where Hezbollah fighters launched four rocket attacks targeting Israeli forces.
Earlier reports indicated that Hezbollah resistance attacks forced Israeli troops to retreat from a strategic hilltop position in al-Bayyaada on Sunday.
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