LIVE: Israel’s three-week siege of northern Gaza kills at least 1,000
According to health officials, Israel’s 24-day military campaign in northern Gaza has killed over 1,000 people, primarily women and children.
According to Lebanon’s health ministry, at least seven persons were killed and seventeen injured when Israeli warplanes struck the city of Tyre.
UN chief Antonio Guterres voiced astonishment at the “harrowing levels of death, injury, and destruction” in besieged northern Gaza on Sunday, after Israeli forces killed at least 53 people in Gaza and 21 in Lebanon.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli attacks have killed at least 43,020 individuals and injured 101,110 more in Gaza. During the Hamas-led strikes in Israel, an estimated 1,139 people were murdered and another 200 were captured.
Since the start of the conflict in Gaza, Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed at least 2,574 individuals, including 127 children, and injured 12,001 more.
Two bodies retrieved from rubble in Gaza’s Rafah City
Two bodies have been recovered from the rubble of the al-Shaer family home targeted by an Israeli drone in the Khirbet al-Adas area in southern Gaza’s Rafah City, according to the Civil Defence.
The rescue service said on Telegram that the victims were a father and his son.
Lufthansa extends suspension of Tel Aviv flights to November 25
According to the firm, the Lufthansa Group airlines—Austria, Brussels, Lufthansa, and SWISS—have agreed to prolong the ban on flights to Tel Aviv through November 25.
Additionally, it informed that until November 30, Eurowings, another group airline, will not be operating flights to Tel Aviv.
Lebanon complains to UN over recent Israel attack on journalists
Beirut says it submitted a complaint to the UN Security Council over an Israeli attack last week that killed three journalists in the country’s south.
The strike early on Friday hit a complex in the Druze-majority town of Hasbaiyya in southern Lebanon, where more than a dozen journalists from Lebanese and Arab media outlets were sleeping.
“The repeated Israeli targeting of media crews is a war crime” and Israel must be “held to account and punished”, Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry said on social media platform X.
The Israeli army said on Friday that the strike was “under review”, maintaining it had targeted Hezbollah fighters.