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3 Lebanese paramedics killed in Israeli strike as border fighting intensifies
Three Lebanese paramedics have been killed and two others wounded, one critically, in an Israeli attack while they were extinguishing fires in the southern town of Faroun, Reuters quoted Lebanon’s health ministry as saying.
“Israeli forces targeted a team from the Lebanese Civil Defence as they responded to fires sparked by recent Israeli airstrikes,” a ministry statement said, specifying that the strike hit a fire truck.
It condemned the attack as a “blatant strike” on an official Lebanese state apparatus, marking the second such attack on an emergency team in less than 12 hours.
Lebanon says Israeli attack kills 3 emergency workers
Lebanon’s health ministry has said three emergency personnel were killed and two others wounded in an Israeli attack on a civil defence team putting out fires in south Lebanon, AFP reports.
“Israeli enemy targeting of a Lebanese civil defence team that was putting out fires sparked by the recent Israeli strikes in the village of Froun led to the martyrdom of three emergency responders,” the health ministry said in a statement, adding that one of two people wounded was in a critical condition.
Iran’s response to Haniyeh’s killing still expected: UK spy chief
Richard Moore, the head of Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence agency, has said he believes that Iran is still planning to respond to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, which Tehran blames on Israel, Al Jazeera reports.
“I suspect they will try and we won’t be able to let our guard down for the type of activity that the Iranians might try and prosecute in that direction,” Al Jazeera quoted Moore as saying at an event in London.
Turkiye’s Erdogan calls for Islamic alliance against Israel
Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called “the growing threat of expansionism” from Israel, Reuters reports.
He made the comment after describing what Palestinian and Turkish officials said was the killing of a Turkish-American woman by Israeli troops in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
“The only step that will stop Israeli arrogance, Israeli banditry, and Israeli state terrorism is the alliance of Islamic countries,” Erdogan said at an Islamic schools’ association event near Istanbul.
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 61 in 48 hours as UN pursues vaccinations
Israeli military strikes across the Palestinian Gaza Strip killed at least 61 people in the space of 48 hours, local medics said on Saturday, as Israeli forces battled Hamas-led militants in the territory.
Eleven months into the war, numerous rounds of diplomacy have so far failed to clinch a ceasefire deal to end the conflict and bring the release of Israeli and foreign hostages held in Gaza as well as many Palestinians jailed in Israel.
Autopsy of Turkish-American activist shows she was killed by sniper’s bullet to head
An autopsy report of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist, has confirmed she was killed by an Israeli sniper’s bullet to the head, Anadolu reports quoting Nablus governor Ghassan Daghlas.
In a statement to Anadolu, Daghlas said the autopsy results indicated Eygi’s cause of death was a gunshot wound inflicted by a sniper, specifically targeting her head. Eygi had been rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead upon arrival.
He said the examination was conducted late on Friday night at the Forensic Medicine Institute, An-Najah National University in Nablus.
Israeli blockade: Child falls through the cracks
Local Palestinian sources and the news agency Wafa, which cited medical sources, report that a young girl from Khan Younis in southern Gaza has died.
Wafa’s medical sources reported that the girl, identified as Yaqin al-As?al, succumbed to both malnutrition and dehydration amidst a severe shortage of supplies.
At least 37 children have died of malnutrition since Israel began its devastating war on Gaza, Wafa said.
An ongoing blockade of the enclave by Israel has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.
Yesterday, UN Secretary-General Spokesman Stephane Dujarric noted that more than one million people in central and southern Gaza did not receive any food rations in August.
In June, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, reported that more than 50,000 children in Gaza required immediate medical treatment for acute malnutrition.
“With continued restrictions to humanitarian access, people in Gaza continue to face desperate levels of hunger,” a UNRWA statement read.
Gaza's grief: Two taken by unseen hands
The rescue organisation says on its Telegram channel that its crews recovered the bodies of two people killed in northern Rafah, which is in the southern Gaza Strip.
It named the two as Salem Zaid Abu Samhadana and Akram Mahmoud Abu Ratima, and said that they were recovered near the “Zaghloul barracks in the Araba area” of the Rafah governorate.
It is not clear how the two were killed at this time.
UN's polio fight: A silver lining in Gaza
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said polio vaccination efforts are continuing in the southern part of Gaza, with its staff going tent to tent to reach children in Khan Younis.
The first phase of the campaign in central Gaza was completed earlier this week. A third phase focusing on northern Gaza is expected to follow.
Despite the UN’s efforts to vaccinate children against the disease, aiming to reach at least 650,000, its children’s fund UNICEF said yesterday that the Israeli army is denying its teams access to communities in the southern Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah launches rocket barrage toward Israel
The Israeli army detected a barrage of about 30 rockets fired from Lebanon towards Israeli territory.
Hezbollah, the armed Lebanese group, says it fired volleys of Katyusha rockets at the Mount Neria base of the Israeli army, which it claims is a battalion headquarters of the army’s Golani Brigade.
Hezbollah said in a statement that this attack was “in response to the Israeli enemy’s attacks on the steadfast southern [Lebanese] villages and homes, especially the recent attack on the town of Faroun”.
Last night, the Israeli army carried out several large air strikes on the area of Bint Jbeil, which includes the town of Faroun.
Israel's deadly rampage in West Bank claims many lives
According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli forces killed dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in the past week, including a 13-year-old girl named Bana Amjad Bakr.
Activist falls victim to Israeli injustice
At a protest against illegal Israeli settlements near Beita in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces “murdered” a Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, witness told the media.
Palestinian bloodbath: No end in sight
Medical sources in Gaza reported to the media that at least 33 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday.
Israel targets schools, eight Palestinians killed
Israel appears unrelenting in its targeting of schools.
Its army attacked the Halimah al-Saadiyah school in northern Gaza, resulting in the deaths of eight Palestinians seeking shelters in tents.
Besides, five people were killed in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
American shot dead at West Bank demo where Israeli forces opened fire
NABLUS (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – A Turkish-American woman was shot dead Friday while demonstrating against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank town of Beita, where the army acknowledged opening fire.
Turkey identified the woman as Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, condemning her death, while the United States called it a "tragic" event, without immediately assigning responsibility.
Israeli troops leave West Bank's Jenin with Gaza talks deadlocked
JENIN (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Israeli forces appeared to be winding down a deadly 10-day raid in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank on Friday, as key ally Germany warned against treating the territory like Gaza.
There was no official confirmation from the Israeli military that it had withdrawn from Jenin, a bastion of Palestinian armed groups, but AFP journalists reported residents returning to the city following the fighting.
