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Iran has expanded access to its airspace for international overflights following a ceasefire with Israel, though flight restrictions remain in place across much of the country, an official said on Saturday.

"In addition to the eastern half of the country's airspace being available for domestic, international and overflight operations, the airspace over the central and western parts of the country has now also been opened only for international overflights," Majid Akhavan, spokesman for the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, said in a statement carried by the Irna state news agency.

Flights to and from airports in the north, south and west of the country, including Tehran's Mehrabad and Imam Khomeini international airports, remained suspended, Akhavan added.

"All fellow citizens are requested not to go to airports located in the northern, southern and western regions of the country," he said.

Iran reopened its eastern airspace on Wednesday, following a ceasefire that ended 12 days of fighting with Israel.

Airports now operating include Mashhad in eastern Iran - which Israel said it targeted during the conflict - as well as Chabahar in the southeast.

Flights in other regions remain suspended until further notice.

Mourners gave their reactions to Israeli attacks on Iran while attending a state funeral held for 60 people, including top military leaders killed in the war. pic.twitter.com/cxshZNgbEG

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Gaza civil defence officials said Israeli forces killed at least 23 people in the enclave on Saturday. 

Among the casualties were three children who were killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

AFP video footage from Gaza City showed relatives weeping over the bodies of children killed in the attack.

A civil defence spokesperson told AFP there were at least six air strikes by drones and planes across the territory on Saturday.

Otheres were killed by Israeli fire while waiting for food aid in the Netzarim corridor in central Gaza.

Israel's war on Gaza since October 2023 has killed at least 56,412 people, the majority of whom are civilians, according to the Palestinian health ministry. 

An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon has killed one person, the Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday.

The health ministry said that an "Israeli enemy" drone strike on a car in Kunin, south Lebanon, killed at least one man.

It comes a day after Israel killed a woman and wounded 25 other people in attacks across south Lebanon. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the woman was killed in an Israeli drone strike on an apartment in the southern city of Nabatiyeh.

Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee said on social media that the army "did not target any civilian building".

Israel has repeatedly breached a November ceasefire reached with Hezbollah, bombing areas of Lebanon on a frequent basis since then.

Under the ceasefire deal, Hezbollah was to pull its fighters back north of the Litani river, around 30km from the Israeli border, leaving the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers as the only armed parties in the region.

Israel was required to fully withdraw its troops from the country, but has kept them in five locations in south Lebanon that it deems "strategic".

At least ten Palestinians have been killed and others wounded in Israeli attacks on southern Gaza on Saturday.

According to medical sources cited by Wafa news agency at Nasser Hospital, six civilians were killed and several others wounded when Israeli forces opened fire near an aid distribution centre in northern Rafah. 

In a separate incident, four civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike on the town of Al-Qarara, in Khan Younis.

According to the UN, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in recent weeks while attempting to access food at aid distribution points run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Israeli forces killed 13 Palestinian athletes and coaches in June, the Palestinian Olympic Committee said on Saturday.

The committee said that since Israel's war on Gaza began in October 2023, the total number of Palestinians killed from the sports community, including youth athletes, had risen to around 615. 

Amongst the 13 athletes killed this month were eight football players and staff, two volleyball athletes, one handball athlete, a karate athlete and one Muay Thai athlete.

The football stars include Mohamed Abdel Moneim Al-Jaabari, Emad Yousef Al-Samhouri, Mohamed Mahmoud Yassin, Mostafa Mayt, Abdullah Mazen Hawila, Ayman Jumaa Al-Hamas, and Youssef Ayman Al-Najjar.

The volleyball athletes killed were Abdel Karim Al-Nanman and Ahmed Mohamed Al-Mufti; the karate athlete was Ayman Totah; the Muay Thai fighter was Ammar Hamayel; and the handball player was Mohamed Hussein Al-Nashar.

Middle East Eye has published the personal account of Yousef al-Ajouri, 40, describing the night he decided to go to the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in search of food packages.

Here's an excerpt from it:

"The tuk-tuk dropped us off in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, and from there we walked around a kilometre towards Salah al-Din Road. 

The journey was extremely difficult - and dark. We couldn’t use any flashlights, or else we would attract the attention of Israeli snipers or military vehicles. 

There were some exposed, open areas, which we crossed by crawling across the ground.

As I crawled, I looked over, and to my surprise, saw several women and elderly people taking the same treacherous route as us. 

At one point, there was a barrage of live gunfire all around me. We hid behind a destroyed building.

Anyone who moved or made a noticeable motion was immediately shot by snipers.

Next to me was a tall, light-haired young man using the flashlight on his phone to guide him. The others yelled at him to turn it off. Seconds later, he was shot. 

He collapsed to the ground and lay there bleeding, but no one could help or move him. He died within minutes.

Some nearby men eventually covered the man’s body with the empty bag he had brought to fill up with canned goods. I saw at least six other martyrs lying on the ground."

You can read the full account by clicking on the link below. 

Read more: ‘My journey to get aid in Gaza was like Squid Game’

Al Jazeera, citing medical sources at al-Ahli hospital, reported that the bodies of two Palestinians were recovered. They were killed while waiting in a crowd to collect aid at the Netzarim Corridor, south of Gaza City.

The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had arrested a number of Israeli settlers for attacking military reservists in a closed military zone in the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Malik.

On Telegram, the Israeli army said the attack took place overnight, with the group damaging military vehicles and ramming security forces.

“Upon the arrival of the security forces, dozens of Israeli civilians hurled stones towards them and physically and verbally assaulted the soldiers, including the battalion commander,” it said.

The statement added that Israeli troops dispersed the gathering, and six Israeli civilians were arrested and handed over to the police.

The paramilitary wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, al-Quds Brigades, said on Saturday it had detonated “a highly explosive device” in an Israeli military vehicle.

In a statement published on Telegram, the groups said the attack came on “Highway 5, north of Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis”.

It did not provide details about the exact time of the attack.

The number of Palestinians killed across Gaza since early Saturday morning has reached 21 after they were 14 earlier, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

This includes six killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a tent in al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said that Gaza’s health sector remains under intense strain, with extensive damage to medical facilities and a critical lack of fuel.

“The fuel crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached deeply worrisome levels. Humanitarian organisations warn that without the immediate entry of fuel, lifesaving and life-sustaining services are at risk of shutting down imminently,” the UN agency said.

At least eight people were killed on Saturday by an Israeli air strike that targeted Osama bin Zaid school in al-Saftawi area in the north of Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera.

Two children and a woman were among the killed.

This brings the number of those killed in the Strip since the early hours of Saturday to 14.

We reported earlier that at least six people were killed in an Israeli bombing on a tent in al-Mawasi area, including three brothers of the same family, according to medical sources.

Among those killed were two children and a woman.

Earlier, we reported that at least four people were killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in al-Mawasi area, located west of the southern city of Khan Younis.

Now, medical sources at Nasser Hospital say the death toll has increased to six and that some of those killed were members of the Abu Taima family.

The Israeli military said in a statement on Saturday that it has ‘likely intercepted’ a missile that was launched from Yemen.

Earlier, we reported that air raid sirens were triggered in many southern Israeli areas after the missile was launched.  

Since 7 October, the Yemeni Houthi group continues to launch rockets and drones at Israel in support of the Gaza Strip.