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An Israeli was also killed in a retaliatory strike launched by Lebanon’s Hezbollah across the southern border and into Israel.
An Israeli air attack in south Lebanon has killed four civilians – three children and their grandmother – raising the likelihood of a dangerous new escalation in the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border.
Israeli troops and Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters and their allies have been clashing for a month along the border since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. While clashes remain largely contained, they have increased in intensity as Israel conducts a ground incursion in Gaza against Hezbollah ally Hamas.
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The civilian deaths in Lebanon on Sunday were confirmed by a local civil defence official and Lebanese state-run media.
Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee also said in a statement on Sunday that one Israeli was killed in a retaliatory attack by Hezbollah. He did not specify whether the person was a civilian or a soldier.
Hezbollah, a pro-Iranian Shia group, said it fired multiple Grad rockets at the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona after the Israeli attack, saying it was in response to Israel’s “heinous and brutal crime”.
Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said “the enemy will pay the price for its crimes against civilians”.
Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari offered no apologies for the attack on the Lebanese family.
“Regarding Lebanon, we attack on the basis of intelligence information and we will continue to attack. That is our mission. Anyone who threatens us we will attack them,” Hagari said, before adding that Israel examines “every event that occurs in Lebanon”.
Samir Ayoub, a Lebanese journalist who was in the car in front of the one that was struck, said that the three girls killed were his sister’s children and the woman was their grandmother.
“There were no men in the car that was hit – there were three innocent young children with their grandmother and their mother,” he said. “Three children were burned in the car and no one could save them. And I pulled out their mother as she was screaming, ‘My children!’ Where are the terrorists? Israelis, you are the terrorists.”
While clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters remain largely contained to areas near the border, they have increased in intensity as Israel continues its ground incursion into Gaza.
There has been speculation that the front between will eventually escalate into full-blown war, but in a highly-anticipated speech on Friday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah avoided any such declaration.
Complaint to the UN
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that two civilian cars carrying members of the same family – one of them a local journalist – were driving between the towns of Ainata and Aitaroun on Sunday evening when an Israeli air strike hit them.
One of the cars was hit directly and burst into flames, the report said. The three children killed were 10,12 and 14, it said. Their mother is severely injured.
Ali Safieddine, the head of the civil defence in the Tyre district in south Lebanon, confirmed that a woman and three children were killed.
Lebanon will submit a complaint to the United Nations over the killing of civilians, Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said. He said that Lebanon was collecting information and pictures and will likely submit its complaint on Monday.
Reporting from Naqoura in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem said it seemed Lebanon and Israel were “climbing the ladder of escalation gradually”.
“This is the first time that Hezbollah claims directly that it has launched rockets towards Israel since the start of the conflict. That means there will be an Israeli reaction,” he added.
Earlier Sunday, local Lebanese officials said an Israeli drone had struck near two ambulances on their way to pick up casualties from overnight strikes in southern Lebanon, wounding four paramedics.
The Israeli army said in a statement that it had launched strikes on a “terrorist cell” that was attempting to fire missiles toward Israel from the Ras Naqoura area in south Lebanon and had not intentionally targeted the vehicles.
Also Sunday, Hezbollah said in a statement that it had targeted an Israeli military vehicle across the border from the Lebanese town of Blida with guided missiles, killing and wounding members of the crew.
The death of the woman and three children raised the number of civilians killed on the Lebanese side in the border clashes to 14, while at least one Israeli civilian has been killed.
Hezbollah officials have warned that if Israel kills Lebanese civilians it will be considered a violation of the rules of engagement and it will retaliate by attacking civilian targets.
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New York-based Human Rights Watch cited as possible war crimes the deliberate targeting of civilians, indiscriminate rocket attacks by air, and the taking of civilians as hostages by Palestinian armed groups, as well as the Israeli counter-strikes in Gaza that have killed thousands of Palestinians. See the casualty estimates above.
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- An attack on an ambulance convoy in Gaza City on Friday killed at least 15 people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Israel confirmed that it hit an ambulance, but said that Hamas fighters had been the target, without providing evidence.
- A school hosting displaced civilians and people evacuating south were also hit by Israel, according to the ministry, killing at least 20 and 14 people respectively.
Survey suggests support for Netanyahu’s party nearly halved
A survey published this week on several Israeli media outlets suggests that if Israel held a parliamentary election now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party would see a steep drop in its seats from 32 to 18.
Overall, his governing ultra-nationalist far-right coalition would get 42 seats compared to 78 for the opposition, according to the poll.
To achieve a majority, a party or coalition must hold more than 60 seats in the 120-seat Israeli parliament or Knesset.
Israeli forces target mosques, fishing boats
Our correspondent Hani Mahmoud in southern Gaza earlier reported on a water tank in eastern Rafah that was destroyed in an Israeli attack.
Gaza-based Al Aqsa TV now reports that the public water tank was used to supply several neighbourhoods.
Witnesses, meanwhile, reported that fishing boats burned on the shore of Rafah after being targeted by the Israeli army.
Separately, Al Aqsa TV said on Telegram that the Israeli army also bombed a mosque at the centre of the densely populated Sabra neighbourhood in western Gaza.
Another Israeli attack disabled the primary electricity generator at the al-Wafa Hospital in the Gaza City, putting it out of service, an Al Aqsa TV correspondent reported.
The entrance of al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in Gaza City hit in attack
The Israeli army has targeted the entrance of al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in western Gaza City, according to initial reports.
Several Palestinian local media outlets reported civilian casualties.
The Israeli army has recently targeted hospital areas in different parts of Gaza, including near al-Shifa Hospital, al-Quds Hospital and Indonesian Hospital on Friday.
Israeli forces targeting solar panels, water tanks
From Hani Mahmoud in Khan Younis, southern Gaza
In the late hours of last night, within the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital, an Israeli strike targeted all the surrounding residential homes that have solar panels on the top.
This seems to be the last nail in the coffin.
What Israel army wants people to do is to leave. The last source that’s keeping them in Gaza was the tiny bit of electricity they got from the solar panels.
The same thing happened in the early hours of this morning, near Nasser Hospital [in western Gaza City], a specialised children’s hospital. All the solar panels on top of that hospital and the surrounding homes of it were destroyed.
Meanwhile, a water tank in eastern Rafah was also destroyed. It seems to be another way of telling people, “We are going to bomb everything that you rely on for your survival.”
What threat did that water tank pose on the Israeli army?
Argentinians protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza
Large protests in solidarity with Palestinians took place on Friday in cities around the world. One of them was in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, where hundreds of people gathered outside the Congress to show their support for the people of Gaza.
Holding banners and chanting slogans, the demonstrators also demanded a humanitarian ceasefire in the besieged enclave.
Demonstrators have come together in solidarity with Palestinians in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires.
Argentina has condemned the bombing of the Jabalia refugee camp but also showed support for the release of captives, as Hamas is still holding some of its citizens.
Argentina will hold a presidential election runoff on November 19. The candidates have expressed their support for Israel, and in fact Sergio Massa, who is also the economy minister, has said he is planning to designate Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
But many of the protesters who gathered at the Congress say they stand with Palestinians and their right for self-determination.
“What we have to defend is the Palestinian right to self-determination that has been marginalized for decades by ethnic cleansing and by an apartheid imposed by the state of Israel,” Nicolas del Cano, a politician from the Socialist Workers’ Party, told Al Jazeera. “That’s why we need to all get together to demand a ceasefire now.
Israeli army gives latest update on overnight military operations
The Israeli army says its military operations in the north of Gaza continued overnight, thwarting “many attempts” by Hamas fighters to attack Israeli soldiers from tunnel shafts and military compounds.
In one of the battles on Friday, the army said Israeli troops killed “a number” of Hamas fighters and destroyed three observation posts of the armed group.
During “a targeted raid” in the south of the Strip to map buildings and defuse explosives, the Israeli army said it killed a group of Palestinian fighters coming out of a tunnel shaft.‘Every living object in Gaza is a target.’
From Hani Mahmoud in Khan Younis, southern Gaza
The Israeli army knew about the coordinated convoy of ambulances on Friday carrying seriously injured Palestinians [headed to the Rafah border crossing].
This attack has sent waves of concern. It has confirmed what people have thought – that there is no safe place in Gaza. Every living object in Gaza is a target.
[This attack] will affect any coordination process in the future for any injured Palestinians, or it will at least hinder efforts in securing better treatment for those injured Palestinians. People are concerned about agreeing or signing paperwork, letting their children or their family members leave the hospital and cross into Egypt for medical attention.
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captives’ families set up tents to stage protests in Tel Aviv
The relatives of those seized and taken into Gaza during Hamas’s attack on October 7 have set up a makeshift camp at the entrance of the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv to pressure the government into doing more for the release of their loved ones.
“We will not leave until they all return home!” read a statement from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
“They will stay in tents with mattresses and sleeping bags until all hostages return home. Every Israeli citizen is invited to come and show their support!” the forum said, adding that a rally will start today at 8pm (18:00 GMT).
People stand next to the wall with pictures dedicated to captives being held in Gaza [Ronen Zvulun/Reuters]
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France says Israeli strike on French institute in Gaza ‘incomprehensible’
Demanding a full investigation into why the building was hit, Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said:
“We made public today that the French Cultural Institute in Gaza was hit a few days ago in a way that caused astonishment and incomprehension and which led France to call for explanations from the Israeli authorities.
“[We seek] to understand how a French cultural institute can be the target of an Israeli strike. We are, therefore in dialogue with our Israeli partners at different levels,” she said.
Colonna, who spoke during a visit to Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, repeated that Israel had the right to protect itself and its population but also a duty to respect international humanitarian law.
“That is, protect civilian populations and take concrete measures to protect civilian populations,” she said.
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A barrage of Israeli airstrikes leveled apartment buildings in a refugee camp near Gaza City on Tuesday. With rescuers clawing through the destruction to pull men, women and children from the rubble. The strike targeted a senior Hamas military leader and destroyed a militant command center and a tunnel network. War crimes in Israel-occupied Gaza read on.
Women and Children Killed War crimes in Israel-occupied Gaza.
The toll from the attack in the Jabaliya camp was not immediately known, although this attack suffered hundreds of casualties. The director of the nearby hospital where casualties from the incident were taken, Dr Atef Al-Kahlot, said. Hundreds of people were wounded or killed. Still, he could not provide exact figures as not all the injured have been rescued.
Militants killed said Israel – no proof but lots of civilian victims.
The Israeli military said militants were killed in their attack in Khan Younis, including a key Hamas commander for northern Gaza. However, there was no mention of the collateral damage caused by the Israelis. The Indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Gaza has left more than 8800 people dead so far. The injured are close to 20200. The dead and wounded included the old, women, babies, and children. Scenes of wounded children being carried by devastated, weeping adults are heart-wrenching.
Little to minimal aid being allowed through. War crimes in Israel-occupied Gaza.
Only a small number of trucks carrying humanitarian aid are trickling into Gaza. The UN describes this as inadequate, and deliveries must increase immediately; there will be a humanitarian catastrophe. However, Israel has announced recently that 100 trucks will be allowed to enter Gaza soon. Before the war, 500 trucks entered Gaza every day.
War crimes are being investigated by both sides investigation taking place by the UN.
The UN and other entities are investigating war crimes committed on October 7th. Allegedly Israel has crimes committed War Crimes every day since the war began.
This sad nightmare continues. It should be noted that the secretary general of the UN said the attack 7th December did not take place in a vacuum. War crimes in Israel occupied Gaza.
War crimes in Israel occupied Gaza or self-defence.
There is a view that Israel can not claim self-defence as it is the caretaker of Gaza. War crimes in Israel-occupied Gaza.
As an occupying power, it does not have that power,” A 2004 advisory opinion by the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ), states that Israel cannot invoke the UN Charter’s article on the right to self-defense when acting against threats from occupied territory.
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