Live: Over 200 Lebanese children killed in two months of Israeli attacks

At least 78 people were killed and 122 wounded on Tuesday by Israeli strikes across Lebanon, the country's ministry of health said. 

The casualties bring Lebanon's total death toll since fighting in Lebanon erupted on 8 October 2023 to 3,365 killed and 14,344 injured.

At least 216 children are among the casualties. 

Israel has detained Esra Ghorani, a female reporter with the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, and her TV crew in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported.

"The detentions occurred as Ghorani and the TV crew were returning from covering the demolition of a house by the Israeli military in the village of Kardala in the northern Jordan Valley," Wafa said. 

The detention marks another escalation in Israel's crackdown on Palestinian journalists. 

Israel issued new forced displacement orders in Lebanon, as its defence minister vowed the war on Lebanon would continue. 

"We will make no ceasefires, we will not take our foot off the pedal, and we will not allow any arrangement that does not include the achievement of our war objectives," Defence Minister Israel Katz told Israeli commanders on Wednesday.

"We will continue to strike Hezbollah everywhere." 

A CIA official has been charged with leaking top-secret US documents about Israel’s potential plan to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack in October. 

According to the New York Times, Asif W Rahman, who worked overseas for the US intelligence agency, was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia on Tuesday over the leaks. 

The plans were leaked on a Telegram channel group called Middle East Spectator. They were prepared by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a support agency within the US Department of Defence. 

Israel eventually launched direct strikes on Iran in October. 

At least 3,365 people have been killed and another 14,344 injured in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 7 October 2023, the Lebanese health ministry said on Wednesday.

Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) is reporting a series of Israeli air strikes across southern Lebanon, including a drone strike targeting a motorcycle in southern Lebanon's Yahmar al-Shaqif, two raids carried out by Israeli war planes in the town of Tebnine and two more in the town of Burj Qalaouiyah.

The NNA added that Israeli strikes also targeted the city of Bint Jbeil, and the towns of Ainata and Sultaniya.

Meanwhile, an Israeli strike targeted the vicinity of the Communist roundabout in the town of Kfar Reman, and at least three people were injured in a drone attack in the town of al-Shaitiyah.

Israeli news outlet Haaretz is reporting that the Israeli army is building "long term infrastructure" in Gaza, suggesting plans for building more permanent military facilities.

According to the report, roads are being widened, with cellular antennas erected and sewage and electricty networks constructed.

It added that the army has distributed training and planning materials in recent weeks that suggest plans to occupy the strip until at least the end of 2025.

"The way it looks on the ground, the IDF won't leave Gaza before 2026," an officer in one of the brigades fighting in Gaza said. 

Hezbollah has said its fighters launched a squadron of drones targeting the Hakirya military base in Tel Aviv, in what it said was its first attack on the site.

In a statement on Telegram, the group said that the base functioned as the headquarters of the Israeli war ministry and general staff, as well as war management room, and the air force’s war control and supervision authority.

A Palestinian has been shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank, after allegedly attempting to take a soldier's weapon, Israeli media is reporting.

Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported that the man was shot after Palestinians gathered at the site of a car accident near al-Aroub refugee camp in the southern West Bank.

According to Kan, an Israeli soldier shot and killed him after he tried to take his weapon.

The Israeli army has said it is investigating the incident.

Wafa news agency reported earlier, citing security sources, that a Palestinian man was shot and "seriously injured" by Israeli forces at a bypass road near the camp.

An Israeli air strike targeting a house in northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp has killed at least 10 Palestinians, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting.

Additionally, two people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Shujaya neighbourhood in Gaza City and another eight in an attack on southern Gaza's Mawasi 'safe zone.'

Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources, that 47 Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours, with another 182 injured.

Hezbollah said its fighters launched rockets targeting a logistical base for the 146th Division in the Israeli army, near northern Israel's Nahariya.

Al Jazeera is reporting that at least eight Palestinians have been killed in a renewed Israeli attack on the so-called designated 'safe zone' in Mawasi, in southern Gaza.

Al Jazeera's correspondent Hind Khoudary is reporting that Israeli forces targeted the home of the Abu Taha family, killing eight. Civil defence teams say there were dozens of people inside the house and that there are still people trapped under the rubble.

According to local residents, this is the second Israeli air strike to target the area today.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he hopes US President-elect Donald Trump would take a different approach on the Middle East during his term, but that some of the messages coming from his side were concerning, broadcaster NTV reported on Wednesday.

"It seems too early to me to make observations about this," Erdogan told reporters on a return flight from Baku. "Our hope is that Trump takes very different steps toward the region this term because the messages being given from time to time concern us." 

Asked about Turkey's decision to halt all trade with Israel in May, Erdogan said Ankara had no trade ties with Israel at the moment and no desire to develop them.

"A Republic of Turkey that is headed by Tayyip Erdogan can't continue to develop its relationship with Israel. We have no such intention," he was cited as saying. "We have cut trade and ties with Israel, period."

Reporting by Reuters

Israeli forces have killed at least 47 Palestinians and wounded 182 in the last 24 hours across Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry. 

This brings the death toll in the besieged enclave since 7 October 2023 to 43,712, with more than 103,258 wounded. At least 10,000 people are still missing, likely dead and buried under rubble.

Health officials report that over 60 percent of the victims are women and children.

An Israeli air strike hit makeshift camps for displaced Palestinians in the so-called Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone" in al-Mawasi near Khan Younis on Wednesday. 

Footage posted on social media by local media showed a massive explosion after the air strike. 

At least one child has been killed and others wounded in an initial count, according to Palestinian media. 

Horrifying footage showing the massive Israeli airstrike which targeted Mawasi Khan Younis region, an area designated by the Israeli army as a 'safe humanitarian zone' in southern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/0IDvkGHICS

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