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Live blog: Israeli drones launch deadly strikes in occupied West Bank
Tel Aviv’s year-long war on Gaza has killed at least 42,065 Palestinians. Separately, Israeli attacks across Lebanon since October 2023 have killed more than 2,169 people and uprooted another 1.2 million.
Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting a vehicle in the Jabal al Salihin area of the occupied West Bank. / Photo: Reuters Archives
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Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting a vehicle in the Jabal al Salihin area of the occupied West Bank. / Photo: Reuters Archives
0130 GMT — Friday, October 11, 2024
Israeli drones have fired missiles that killed two Palestinians in the northern occupied West Bank.
“Two citizens were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in the Jabal al Salihin area between the Dhannabah suburb and the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem,” the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported, citing unnamed security sources.
Sources added that Israeli forces immediately stormed the area after the strike, retrieved the bodies of the men, and withdrew from the location.
Earlier that evening, the Israeli army raided the Nur Shams refugee camp and imposed a siege on it before launching drone strikes.
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0100 GMT — Israel’s top security officials meet inside Lebanon
The Israeli army has said that Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet director Ronen Bar have conducted a joint security assessment in southern Lebanon for the first time.
A military statement noted that Halevi and Bar “conducted a joint situational assessment with the forces fighting in southern Lebanon, along with the Commanding Officer of the Northern Command and the Commanding Officer of the 91st Division.”
According to Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth daily, this marks the first time that senior security officials has held a meeting inside Lebanese territory.
2140 GMT — UN slams Israel’s ‘alarming’ killing of Gaza journalists
The UN has denounced Israel’s targeting journalists in besieged Gaza, emphasising the “alarming” number of reporters killed.
Asked about an Al Jazeera photojournalist being targeted by Israeli army gunfire while covering the situation in northern Gaza, UN spokesman Farhan Haq said at a news conference that “we’ve continued to deplore the killing of all journalists.”
“No journalists should be killed in this conflict, and yet you’ve seen an alarming number of journalists both killed and injured. Our thoughts go out to your injured colleague,” he said.
The number of journalists killed since the Israeli onslaught began on Gaza has reached 176.
2140 GMT — Death toll in Lebanon from Israeli attacks reaches 2,169: Health Ministry
The Lebanese Health Ministry has said that the death toll from Israeli attacks has hit 2,169, with 10,212 wounded since Oct. 8, 2023.
It said 28 people were killed and 113 injured in the last 24 hours.
Israel has mounted massive airstrikes across Lebanon since Sept. 23 that have killed more than 1,351 victims and wounded north of 3,800.
The aerial bombardment marks an escalation in the year-long cross-border exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah, following the start of Tel Aviv’s war on Gaza, which has resulted in the deaths of over 42,000 people, mostly women and children.
Despite international warnings that the Middle East region was on the brink of a regional war amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, Tel Aviv expanded the conflict by launching a ground invasion into southern Lebanon on Oct. 1.
2100 GMT — Spanish lawmaker blasts Israel’s ‘barbarity’ for firing at UN peacekeepers
The leader of Spain’s left-wing Podemos party has slammed Israel for its attacks on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, saying “the barbarity must be stopped.”
In a post on X, Ione Belarra pointed to reports of Israeli forces firing on positions of the United Nations Interim Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
She said Israel has been allowed to bomb five countries in the region with impunity and genocide has been committed against innocent men, women and children.
Stressing that this barbarity needs to stop, Belarra also criticised Western countries for providing political and financial assistance to Israel.
“We said it. Today, it is the Palestinians. Tomorrow, if we do not stop the terrorist state of Israel, it could be anyone,” she wrote.
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SOURCE: TRTWORLD AND AGENCIES
