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

Israeli soldiers have launched raids on the cities of Nablus and Qalqilya in the northern occupied West Bank, according to Arabic media reports. 

Israel has expanded its attacks on the West Bank since the summer. 

At least 40 people were killed by Israeli air strikes on Lebanon over the last day including several children, Lebanese authorities said on Saturday.

The death toll has been steadily increasing after a day of heavy Israeli bombardment. 

The death toll from an Israeli strike on Tyre, known in Arabic as Sour, climbed to eight on Saturday, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. 

Israeli soldiers filmed themselves burning a Lebanese flag amid bombed ruins in southern Lebanon. 

The soldiers are seen dancing and cheering as the red and white Lebanese flag with a cedar tree in the middle burns. 

The video sparked outcry on social media. Israel says its offensive is aimed at Hezbollah, not Lebanon. 

The Israeli army's Arabic language spokesperson said the soldiers had 'violated orders'. 

Qatar says it informed Hamas and Israel 10 days ago that it would "stall" its mediator role in Gaza ceasefire talks after the last round of negotiation collapsed. 

Doha said reports that it had withdrawn from the talks were "not accurate" and that it could resume them when "the parties show their willingness and seriousness to end the brutal war and the ongoing suffering of civilians". 

Qatar also said that reports that it has asked Hamas' political leadership to leave were "not accurate," but it did not clarify whether the group's leadership would remain in the country. 

"The main goal of the of the office in Qatar is to be a channel of communication between the concerned parties, and this channel has contributed to achieving a ceasefire in previous stages," Qatar's foreign ministry said in a statement. 

Spain has denied entry to a Maersk container ship arriving at the port of Algeciras, over allegations it is carrying arms to Israel. 

Spanish daily El Pais earlier this week said Madrid would not allow the vessel to dock because its cargo included weapons systems for Israel.

“The cargo to be transshipped through the port does not include any military weapons or ammunition,” Maersk said in a statement. 

But Maersk appeared to confirm that some cargo was going to Israel. It questioned if Spain had expanded its ban on the type of Israel-bound cargo it was blocking from arriving in Spanish ports. 

“It is our understanding that Spain has in its discretion changed its criteria and is now rejecting vessels that carry anything military-related going to, or from, Israel, notwithstanding such cargo being legal," Maersk said. 

At least 31 people were killed on Saturday in Israeli strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry said.

In eastern Lebanon, Israeli strikes in the region of Baalbek left 20 dead, including 11 in the town of Knaisseh, and wounded 14, the ministry said in a statement.

In southern Lebanon, five people were killed in an Israeli strike on the town of Hanaouay, near Tyre, the ministry said.

There is a "strong likelihood" of a famine in northern Gaza, according to a report by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). 

"It can therefore be assumed that starvation, malnutrition and excess mortality due to malnutrition and disease, are rapidly increasing in these areas," the report said. "Famine thresholds may have already been crossed".

At least 19 people were killed and 91 wounded by Israeli strikes across Lebanon in the last 24 hours, Lebanon's Ministry of Health said Saturday. 

According to the statement, 3,136 people have been killed at 13,979 wounded in Lebanon since the outbreak of the war last October.

A new wave of Israeli strikes has targeted the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, according to state media.

The strikes follow reports from Lebanon’s health ministry on Saturday, which said that seven people, including two children, were killed in Israeli strikes on the city the previous day. Rescuers are still searching for missing people under the rubble.

"Israeli enemy strikes on the city of Tyre killed seven people, including two girls, and injured 46 others," the ministry said, adding that body parts had been found and will be "identified with DNA testing".

Israel has been briefing President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on its offensive on Gaza for several months, two Israeli officials told the New York Times. 

Kushner, who was Trump's top Middle East advisor during his first term, said he has no plans to take a role in the White House. 

Israel has also been briefing David Friedman, Trump's former ambassador to Israel. 

Qatar has withdrawn as a key mediator in Gaza ceasefire talks, warning that Hamas' Doha office "no longer serves its purpose", AFP reported, citing a diplomatic source.

“The Qataris informed both the Israelis and Hamas that as long as there is a refusal to negotiate a deal in good faith, they cannot continue to mediate. As a consequence, the Hamas political office no longer serves its purpose,” the source said on condition of anonymity.

Reuters reported on Friday, citing an administration official, that the US had told Qatar that the presence of Hamas in Doha is no longer acceptable since the group rejected the latest ceasefire proposal, which would have brought the release of a small number of Israeli captives and a 30-day cessation of hostilities, but no withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.

"After rejecting repeated proposals to release hostages, its leaders should no longer be welcome in the capitals of any American partner. We made that clear to Qatar following Hamas' rejection weeks ago of another hostage release proposal," the senior official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Qatar then made the demand to Hamas leaders about 10 days ago, the official said. Washington has been in touch with Qatar over when to close the group's political office, and it told Doha that now was the time.

Reporting by Agence France-Presse and Reuters

The death toll from an Israeli attack on tents sheltering displaced people in the courtyard of al-Aqsa Hospital has now risen to three, Al Jazeera is reporting.

At least one person has been killed and three others injured in an Israeli attack on a tent sheltering displaced people in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera is reporting.

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The Israeli military said it killed a Palestinian "militant" and detained five others in raids in Tubas and al-Aqaba in the occupied West Bank.

The Wafa news agency reported earlier today that Israeli forces killed 25-year-old Adham Zaid Ezzat al-Masri after surrounding his family's home, adding that his body was seized by the army.

It also reported that two Palestinians were injured during the raid of al-Aqaba and another in Tayasir, east of Tubas.