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

Israeli forces launched a raid on al-Fawwar camp in the Hebron governorate in the occupied West Bank, arresting 10 Palestinians. They used sound bombs and tear gas to break into homes.

As voting day for the 2024 US presidential election approaches on 5 November, first-generation Americans of all backgrounds are left with the weight of deciding between domestic policies that affect them, and foreign policies that will affect those in their homelands.

Generation Z - those born in the mid-to-late 1990s to the early 2010s - now has an eligible voting population of over 40 million, including a new batch of over eight million new voters this year. Nearly half of these voters identify as people of colour.

As of 2023, there are approximately 4.3 million first-generation immigrants under 35 in the United States, while the number of second-generation Americans (children of immigrants) under 35 is estimated to be around 14 million.

Both of these categories are commonly referred to as “first-generation Americans”, leading the combined total to be approximately 20 million. 

Although there is little data on how many of them are registered to vote, it is expected to surpass last election's turnout, with 57 percent of voters ages 18-34 saying they are “extremely likely” to vote in 2024.

For many young Americans who have witnessed more than a year of what seems to be an endless and expanding war in the Middle East, the idea of voting for the same party that they deem as the perpetrator of genocide in Gaza - or even participating in electoral politics at all - is off the table.

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Young first-generation Americans battle disillusionment as they go to the polls

Several reports have said that at least six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on the Bureij camp in central Gaza.

The attack targeted the entrance of the camp and video footage from the aftermath showed several mutilated bodies on the street.

Egyptian security officials told Al Qahera News that they are working to facilitate mediation efforts between Israeli and Palestinian parties. 

According to the officials, negotiations focus on key issues such as establishing a ceasefire and increasing humanitarian aid to Gaza.

The security source also told Al Qahera News that Hamas continues to insist on unified negotiations to prevent Israel from resuming hostilities following a potential prisoner release.

The source added that meetings between Fatah and Hamas focused on Gaza will begin in Cairo, without giving further details. 

An Israeli strike on a southern suburb of Beirut on Saturday wounded 11 people, Lebanon's health ministry reported. 

Barak Ravid of Axios reports that Israeli forces have captured a senior Hezbollah official named Imad Amhaz. 

Citing an Israeli official, Ravid said the Israeli Navy had captured Amhaz during an operation in northern Lebanon. 

Hezbollah on Saturday said it had launched rocket attacks targeting "military industries" in Zvulun, near the northern city of Haifa. 

The group said it fired two "salvoes of rockets" at the "Zvulun base for military industries north of the city of Haifa". 

Earlier, Hezbollah said it had launched drones at the Palmachim Airbase south of Tel Aviv.  

Al Jazeera Arabic reports that a group of armed soldiers kidnapped a Lebanese citizen from the Batroun area in the north of the country.

A Lebanese security official, speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic, suspects that an Israeli commando force is responsible for the kidnapping, having infiltrated Lebanon by sea.

Footage posted online claims to show the incident, where armed men can be seen taking an individual away in the Batroun area.

Lebanese journalist Hasan Illaik claimed that a large landing party of Israeli troops infiltrated the resort town, captured the man and then escaped on speed boats.

Middle East Eye could not independently verify the footage.

Lebanese transport minister Ali Hamie, who represents Hezbollah in Lebanon's government, told Al Jazeera the video was accurate but did not provide further details.

Israeli authorities were not available for immediate comment. 

Israeli figures show that 37 soldiers have been killed in Lebanon since the military began its ground operations on 30 September. 

The AFP added that Israeli figures also showed that 63 people have been killed on the Israeli side since October of last year. 

The Israeli military said it had intercepted three drones over the Red Sea after reporting that seven drones had been launched from "several fronts". 

The Palestinian health ministry confirmed on Saturday that the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza has risen to 43,314 since 7 October 2023. 

The ministry also reported that 102,019 have been injured since the fighting began last October. 

In the past 24 hours alone, Israeli forces killed 55 people and injured another 192 in the besieged enclave, the statement added.

The military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has announced the deaths of two of its fighters.

Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement that Ahmed Issam Fahmawi, 19, and Abdul Aziz Mahmoud Abu Saman, 20, were killed in the occupied West Bank while fighting Israeli forces. 

In a statement, the PIJ said: “They were killed in a treacherous Zionist raid that targeted them while they were confronting the occupation forces storming Nur Shams camp.”

Both fighters were members of the Tulkarm battalion. 

Haaretz reports that the Israeli army is expanding its operations in northern Gaza's Jabalia. 

According to the Israeli paper, the military said the Kfir Brigade combat team has joined other fighting forces in the Jabalia area. 

This marks the Kfir Brigade’s third deployment to Jabalia since the fighting began, joining the Givati and Iron Tracks brigades already operating in the region.

Lebanon's Hezbollah said it targeted Israel's Palmachim Airbase in southern Tel Aviv on Saturday using drones.

There was no immediate comment from Israel regarding the attack.

Reporting by Reuters

Muslim-American organisers for Kamala Harris's presidential campaign are struggling to convince the community to vote for her in yet another indication that the Democratic Party may have lost the Muslim vote, Middle East Eye can reveal.

With just days remaining before the US presidential election, the admissions by several grassroots Muslim-American organisers in a private WhatsApp group corroborate reports that not only is Donald Trump gaining momentum amongst sections of the Muslim and Arab-American community, but that many have already decided to vote for a third-party candidate to hold the Democrats accountable for the US-sponsored Israeli war on Gaza. 

Over the past several weeks, MEE has had a front-row seat to discussions and strategies of a group of Muslim volunteers organising for Harris inside one of the many WhatsApp groups set up to help mobilise the community to vote for the current vice president.

But organisers in the group have repeatedly conceded that anger and frustration on the ground is visceral, and convincing Muslim voters to endorse the Democratic nominee is proving difficult, and at times, impossible.

"Unfortunately polls are not looking good and reality on the ground is different," Ahmad Jamal* wrote earlier this week.

"We will keep trying and advocating but unfortunately [the] campaign had not done enough to earn the votes of Muslims, progressives, Pakistani and gen Zs. Their unconditional support for Israel will cost them this election. I hope and pray I am wrong but writing is on the wall and [the] electoral map is looking very bleak," Jamal added.

Read more: What it's like inside a 'Muslims for Kamala Harris' WhatsApp group 

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates from Israel's wars on Gaza and Lebanon, now in its 393rd day: 

• Israeli forces continued bombardment across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least six people in north Gaza's Beit Lahia, three in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp and three in Gaza City. 

• Hezbollah said it targeted a military base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv in a rocket attack, wounding 11 people, according to local emergency services.  

• Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that the United States and Israel will "undoubtedly receive a crushing response for what they do against Iran and the resistance front", Reuters reported.