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

Lebanon's Hezbollah has claimed an attack on an Israeli military site in response to an attack by Israeli forces on emergency teams in the town of Frun.

In a statement on Telegram, the group said it had launched a barrage of drones at the Ras al-Naquora naval site, achieving a direct hit.

Earlier the group announced it had attacked the illegal Israeli settlements of Kiryat Shmona and Shamir.

Israel has closed all its border crossings with Jordan following a deadly shooting attack at the Allenby crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, Israel's Airport Authority said today.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said in response to the mass anti-government protests on Saturday that the "vast majority" of Israelis "do not fall into Hamas' trap".

"They know that we are fully committed to achieving the goals of the war, to eliminating Hamas, to bringing back all our hostages, to ensuring that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel,” he said at the start of a cabinet meeting earlier today.

An estimated 750,000 Israelis joined mass protests on Saturday against Netanyahu and his government, in one of Israel's biggest-ever demonstrations.

The three fatalities resulting from the shooting at the Allenby Crossing were security guards, the Israeli army has confirmed.

The military said in a statement that the alleged assailant arrived from Jordan in a truck and opened fire at security forces before being shot dead.

It added that three Israeli civilians were pronounced dead as a result of the attack, later clarifying to the AFP news agency that they were “working as security guards” and not in the army or police.

Israeli settlers have destroyed around 12 olive trees in the village of Deir Istiya, in the occupied West Bank province of Salfit, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources.

According to the sources, the settlers came from the Yakir illegal outpost north of Salfit.

The trees belonged to local resident Musleh Youssef Mansour.

The latest attack followed a similar incident in which 20 olive trees belonging to Mansour were destroyed.

Israeli forces have detained at least 35 Palestinians from across the West Bank over the last two days, prisoner advocacy groups are reporting.

The Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) and the Palestinian Authority's Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees said in a joint statement that the arrestees included former prisoners, adding that at least one woman was summoned for questioning.

The groups said the raids were conducted across most West Bank governorates, and that these arrest campaigns had become a central policy of the Israeli forces, accelerating since Israel's war on Gaza began in October.

The UN-led polio vaccination drive in Gaza has been extended by a day in order to allow more people to access vaccination centres amid Israeli attacks, the Palestinian Health Ministry said today.

The campaign, which aims to vaccinate a total of 640,000 children across the enclave, was launched to combat the spread of the virus due to the destruction of hygiene and sanitation facilities by Israeli attacks.

Last month, Gaza reported its first polio case in 25 years.

A gunman killed three Israelis in an attack near the Allenby Bridge border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan before security forces shot him dead on Sunday, Israeli authorities have said.

The Israeli military said the gunman "approached the area in a truck from Jordan, exited the truck, and opened fire at the Israeli security forces operating at the bridge".

Three Israeli civilians were pronounced dead at the scene after a military medical team had performed resuscitation efforts.

"The terrorist was eliminated by the security forces. Three Israeli civilians were pronounced dead as a result of the attack," it said.

The shooting took place in an Israel-controlled commercial cargo area, where Jordanian trucks offload cargo entering the West Bank from the kingdom.

Read more: Gunman kills three Israelis near Jordan border

The Israeli army has said that the alleged attacker in the fatal shooting attack at Allenby Bridge arrived from Jordan in a truck.

The attacker then opened fire at forces guarding the crossing before being shot dead.

The shooting killed three Israeli civilians. Jordan and Israel have closed the crossing following the attack.

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates:

• Three people have been killed in a shooting attack near the Allenby crossing on the border with Jordan in Israel, Israeli media is reporting.

• At least 31 Palestinians have been killed in attacks across Gaza, including eight in an attack on a school sheltering displaced people.

• An apartment in the Bureij refugee camp has also been hit, killing a mother and her child.

• Another strike on Nuseirat camp killed five people.

• Israeli forces arrested seven Palestinians during raids across the West Bank.

• Unrwa says it's working to get "thousands of children back to learning” in Gaza despite the closure of its 200 schools.

• Palestinian civil defence says 83 members of its teams have been killed since 7 October, with another 200 wounded.

• Some 750,000 Israelis joined the latest wave of protests against Netanyahu.

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• Israel's military offensive in Gaza has killed at least 40,939 Palestinians since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday
• At least 94,616 others had been wounded during that time, the ministry added
• The Palestinian health ministry has reported that 61 Palestinians have been killed and another 162 injured by Israeli forces in the last 48 hours
• Palestinian medical sources informed Al Jazeera Arabic that at least 31 Palestinians had been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, with 22 of those fatalities occurring in the central and southern parts of the Strip
• The governor of Nablus has said that the autopsy of the American-Turkish activist shot by Israeli forces has revealed she was shot by an Israeli sniper
• The former head of Israel’s security agency, Shin Bet, has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of exaggerating the importance of maintaining control of the Philadelphi Corridor, the buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Islamic nations on Saturday to unite against "the growing threat of expansionism" from Israel
• The heads of American and British foreign intelligence agencies say they are "working tirelessly" towards a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza
• Israeli forces have demolished 45 agricultural buildings and homes in the Taybeh area, northwest of Hebron, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources
• The Palestinian Prisoner's Society has said that the Israeli authorities are "deliberately" leaking images and footage of the torture of Palestinian detainees. The rights group said in a statement that this was “part of the competition between the ministers of the current government over who tortures and kills Palestinians more"
• The family of an American woman who was shot and killed by Israeli forces while protesting in the occupied West Bank has called for an independent investigation. They stated that an Israeli-led probe would be insufficient and biased

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned Israel’s deadly attack on paramedics, calling it “a blatant violation of international laws and human values.”

The Amal movement, an ally of Hezbollah, confirmed that two of its members were among the victims, stating they were killed "while carrying out their humanitarian and national duty defending Lebanon and the south."

Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad reported that since October, 27 emergency personnel and health workers have been killed, and 94 others wounded due to Israeli strikes. Additionally, two hospitals and 21 health centers have been "targeted," and 32 fire trucks or ambulances have been "put out of service or partially damaged." The minister called for an end to the "repeated and deliberate targeting of health workers and civilians."

For better or worse, the 1942 quasi-propaganda film Casablanca, with its stellar cast headed by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, was a staple of my generation’s access to movie theatres showing classic, independent and foreign films in the US in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 

Called on to shut down a gambling operation run by American Rick Blaine (played by Bogart), French police captain Louis Renault (played by Claude Rains) speaks a line that has become a slogan of the times to refer to blatant hypocrisy and corruption. 

While his heart is with the resistance, Renault works for Vichy - and while he has to shut down the club, he also wants to cash in. As he loudly blows his whistle to call for reinforcements, Renault shouts at Blaine: “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here” - and Ugarte, the character played by Peter Lorre, quickly hands the captain his winnings. 

I can’t begin to count the number of times this scene and those words have crossed my mind as I have watched responses to Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. 

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Palestinian photographer Mahmud Hams has earned the prestigious Visa d’Or News award for his coverage of Israel's brutal war on Gaza.

Hams, 44, has been with AFP in the Gaza Strip since 2003. He spoke out against the targeting of journalists during the conflict.

“I grew up in Gaza and, in 23 years of photojournalism, I’ve seen every war and conflict here. But this war is different,” Hams said in a statement.

“Many journalists have been killed or wounded. I’ve also lost friends and loved ones. We fought to keep our families safe. I hope our photos show the world that this war, and the suffering, must stop,” he added.

Eric Baradat, AFP's deputy news director, commended Hams' work, highlighting the challenging conditions faced by Hams and his colleagues.

"Their efforts are extraordinary and often unimaginable. Their work will be remembered in history," Baradat said

Last week's arrest by Turkish security forces of a Kosovo citizen for allegedly collaborating with Israeli intelligence has highlighted Israel's close ties with the Balkan country and its suspected espionage activities there.

Turkish security sources believe that Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency, has been using Eastern European countries, particularly Kosovo, to finance its informants and operatives on the ground in Turkey.

The arrest of Liridon Rexhepi on 30 August was the result of months of work by Turkish intelligence, who had been monitoring Rexhepi's transactions, including payments to local informants spying on Palestinian politicians and recording them via drones.

The informants were said to also be gathering information on the situation in Syria.

Turkish intelligence monitored Rexhepi after he entered Turkey on 25 August, and tracked his money transfers to field personnel via Western Union, according to sources.

Read more: Turkey spy case highlights growing Israel-Kosovo ties