Gaza live: Several dead including Hezbollah commander after Israeli strike on southern Beirut

An Israeli drone targeted a motorcycle and killed two people in southern Lebanon, according to several media reports.

Earlier we reported that at least nine people were killed in an Israeli strike on a school in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.

Now, the Palestinian Civil Defence says that at least 14 people, including two UNRWA staff, women and children, have been killed.

Additionally, at least 18 people were wounded, some with critical wounds.

Kamala Harris, the US vice president and presidential candidate has said that the shooting of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces is "unacceptable" and "raises legitimate questions about the conduct of [Israel’s military] personnel in the West Bank.

"Israel must do more to ensure that incidents like this never happen again,” Harris said in a statement.

She added that Israel's preliminary investigation in the shooting found that it was the result of “a tragic error for which the [Israeli army] is responsible”, and that the US would push Israel for answers.

The Israeli army has issued a statement about its recent strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering in Nuseirat, claiming that the compound was used to plan attacks against Israeli forces.

Wafa news agency reported that Israeli fighter jets bombed the UNRWA-run school-turned-shelter known as al-Jaouni, killing at least nine people.

An Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza has killed at least nine people, mostly women and children, the Palestinian civil defence is reporting.

Wafa news agency reported that Israeli fighter jets had struck the al-Jaouni school.

Footage revealed bodies and wounded people being brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah.

The civil defence said that its teams are still working to recover bodies and search for survivors.

Israeli forces have killed at least 64 Palestinians and injured 104 others in Gaza in the last 24-hour reporting period, the enclave's health ministry reported today.

This brings the total death toll of Palestinians killed in Gaza to 41,084, with another 95,029 wounded.

Israeli forces attacked the southern Lebanese twn of Khiam with white phosphorous munitions, Lebanese media is reporting.

White phosphorous is an incendiary chemical that ignites when in contact with air and can cause severe burns in people it comes into contact with. 

The use of airburst white phosphorus on areas with a dense civilian population is prohibited under international law, as the weapon inflicts indiscriminate harm on civilians.

In June, Human Rights Watch found that Israeli forces had unlawfully dropped white phosphorus munitions on densely populated areas in southern Lebanon.

The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has said that, as the new school year was due to start across Palestine today, 45,000 six-year-old children in Gaza cannot start school due to displacement and relentlees Israeli attacks.

In a post on X, Unicef added that, in total 625,000 children have already been denied an entire school year and face a second year without education.

The agency said it is setting up temporary learning spaces, but urged: "What these children truly need, above all, is a ceasefire."

A whole school year has been denied for children in Gaza.

With partners, UNICEF has set up temporary learning spaces - providing learning kits and organizing recreational activities for children.

But what these children truly need, above all, is a ceasefire. pic.twitter.com/r6Q6mmq53z

— UNICEF (@UNICEF) September 10, 2024

Figures published by the Palestinian Ministry of Finance have revealed that the Israeli authorities have illegally deducted around 7.6 bn shekels from Palestinian tax revenues and have refused to return the funds, Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa 's Office said today.

It added that since October, the Israeli authorities have deducted around 2.8 bn shekels, claiming that the funds are being allocated to Gaza.

According to the office, the Israeli authorities deduct 257 m shekels on a monthly basis as a punitive measure against the Palestinian Authority (PA) to push it stop paying salaries to public employees working in Gaza.

"Despite this, the Government of Palestine remains steadfastly committed to fulfilling its obligations and responsibilities. It continues to pay partial salaries to public employees in Gaza on par with those in the West Bank, including Jerusalem," Mustafa said in a statement.

A Palestinian child has been killed, and others injured in an Israeli strike on a home southeast of Khan Younis, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting.

This follows an earlier attack by Israeli forces on a residential building in the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis, which killed 13 Palestinians.

Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has said that nearly 530,000 children in Gaza have been vaccinated against polio.

The UN agency collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners to roll out its campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza under the age of 10 against polio.

The Israeli army has said that it launched a drone strike on southern Lebanon’s Meiss el-Jabal this morning, killing one Hezbollah member and injuring another.

Hezbollah has not confirmed the death.

Israeli forces launched several attacks on southern Lebanon this morning. It claimed that the strikes were targeting military infrastrcuture belonging to Hamas.

An Israeli strike on the Abu Chalouf family home in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza killed four people and injured 15, the Wafa news agency reports.

This attack was on the Mawasi area near Rafah, whereas Tuesday's strikes hit al-Mawasi near Khan Younis.

US President Joe Biden says he is "outraged and deeply saddened" by the killing of US-Turkish activist Aysenur Eygi, calling it "totally unacceptable".

"There must be full accountability," Biden said in a statement. "And Israel must do more to ensure that incidents like this never happen again."

The president added that his government received full access to Israel's preliminary investigation, which he says indicates the killing was "the result of a tragic error resulting from an unnecessary escalation".

Eygi was peacefully protesting the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

"The violence in the West Bank has been going on for too long," Biden adds. "Violent extremist Israeli settlers are uprooting Palestinians from their homes. Palestinian terrorists are sending car bombs to kill civilians. I will continue to support policies that hold all extremists – Israelis and Palestinians alike – accountable for stoking violence and serving as obstacles to peace."

Eygi's family have called for an independent investigation into her killing, calling an Israeli investigation "not adequate".

The Israeli army said it killed the perpetrator of the ramming attack in the illegal Israeli outpost of Givat Asaf.

The attacker was identified as Hayil Dhaifallah, a 58-year-old Palestinian from the town of Rafat.

An Israeli man was critically wounded in the attack.