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

At least six more medical workers have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Islamic Health Authority centre, located in Nabatieh governorate in southern Lebanon.

According to the National News Agency, the six paramedics were identified as Mustafa Hanawi, Hassan Aboud, Muhammad Hanawi, Ahmed Abbas Aboud, Ahmed Mahmoud Aboud and Abbas Aboud.

Earlier, the Lebanese Health Ministry said that two rescue workers were also killed and two wounded in Israeli attacks on Nabatieh and South Lebanon governorates.

The Lebanese government and rights groups have accused Israel of deliberately targeting medical and emergency workers in Lebanon, stating that more than 200 workers have been killed by Israel during last year.

At least four people, including children, have been killed and other injured in an attack on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Mawasi "safe zone" close to Khan Younis, according to Palestinian media outlets.

According to Wafa news agency, a family including a husband, wife and two children were killed after being critically injured in an Israeli air strike on the tent.

Meanwhile, relentless Israeli bombardment continues in several areas in Gaza, including al-Midan area in Beit Lahiya northern Gaza.

The death toll in the Strip is now nearing 44,000. 

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates:

- The death toll from Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza yesterday has risen to 111, including at least 72 people who were killed in brutal Israeli’s attack on a multi-storey building in Beit Lahiya.

- Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least four people were killed and many others injured as Israel bombed the so-called humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi in southern Gaza.

- Israel killed two rescue workers, wounded two paramedics and bombed an ambulance centre in the town of Bazouriyeh in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s ministry of health.

- UN chief Antonio Guterres renewed his calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon as he spoke to reporters in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, ahead of the G20 summit, which starts on Monday.

- Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that Israeli forces have arrested at least 15 Palestinians after storming the Dheisheh refugee camp near the city of Bethlehem and several raids in the occupied West Bank.

- Hezbollah said it fired a number of rockets at Israeli forces in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel just after midnight on Monday, following Israel’s killing of the Lebanese armed group’s media chief Mohamed Afif in the Beirut area.

- Iran has condemned Israel’s killing of Afif, describing him as the “voice of the Lebanese nation and a symbol in the mission of raising awareness and enlightening public opinion”.

- Saudi Arabia denounced Israel’s targeted strikes on Unrwa workers and facilities, after an attack on a Unrwa-run Abu Assi school in northern Gaza on Saturday that killed at least 10 people.

Our liveblog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• A brutal Israeli air attack on Gaza's Beit Lahiya killed at least 72 Palestinians, bringing the number of known dead in Gaza near to 44,000.
•  Pope Francis called for a gobal probe into possible genocide in Gaza.
• Israeli attacks on the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon killed at least eleven people. Two people were also confirmed dead in an Israeli strike on the Mar Elias area in central Beirut, as Lebanon's education minister announced that schools and universities in Beirut and the Mount Lebanon Governorate are to be closed for two days over safety concerns.
• Yemen's Houthis have said they successfully hit a number of "vital targets" in Israel. 
• Israeli President Isaac Herzog reportedly cancelled a planned visit to the UN's Cop29 climate conference in Azerbaijan because Turkey refused to allow Israel’s state airline, Wing of Zion, to fly though its airspace.

Schools and universities in Beirut and the Mount Lebanon Governorate are to be closed for two days over safety concerns.

Abbas Halabi, Lebanon's education minister, announced the closures after an escalation in Israeli strikes on the country's capital.

Israeli attacks on the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon have killed at least eleven, according to Lebanon's health ministry.

Forty-eight people have also been injured.

Two people have been confirmed dead in an Israeli strike on the Mar Elias area in central Beirut, Lebanon's health ministry has announced.

Mar Elias is a densely populated residential area.

Yemen's Houthis have said they successfully hit a number of "vital targets" in Israel. 

"The UAV force of Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a specific military operation targeting a number of military and vital targets of the Israeli enemy in Yaffa area and Ashkelon area southern occupied Palestine," the group said.

There has been no statement from Israel so far.

Qatar has strongly condemned the Israeli bombing of an Unrwa-affiliated school in Gaza's al-Shati refugee camp, which shelters displaced people.

The foreign affairs ministry said: "This attack led to casualties and injuries and is considered an extension of the occupation's policies targeting defenceless civilians and civilian facilities, as well as a blatant violation of the principles of international law and international humanitarian law."

Qatar strongly condemns the Israeli occupation’s bombing of an UNRWA-affiliated school in the Gaza Strip#MOFAQatar pic.twitter.com/JS2sNgrO6g

— Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Qatar (@MofaQatar_EN) November 17, 2024

Footage shows the aftermath of an Israeli strike targeting humanitarian aid workers south of Khan Younis in Gaza, with bodies seen lying motionless on the ground.

Footage shows the aftermath of an Israeli strike targeting humanitarian aid workers south of Khan Younis in Gaza, with bodies seen lying motionless on the ground. pic.twitter.com/XEtGay31Xk

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) November 17, 2024

Two Israeli soldiers have been killed in northern Gaza, according to the Israeili military.

One was 22 years old and the other was 21. The military said they were killed by Hamas operatives in an exchange of fire in Beit Lahiya.

An Israeli air attack on Beit Lahiya killed 72 Palestinians on Saturday.

The Israeli attack on a Lebanese army post in a town in the south of the country was previously confirmed to have killed one Lebanese soldier.

But the Lebanese army has now announced that a second soldier has died.

The army said that the Israeli military "directly targeted an army centre".

Israeli President Isaac Herzog reportedly cancelled a planned visit to the UN's Cop29 climate conference in Azerbaijan because Turkey refused to allow Israel’s state airline, Wing of Zion, to fly though its airspace.

Herzog’s office said on Saturday that his planned visit to Baku was cancelled due to "security considerations".

According to a report on Israel's Ynet news, officials in Azerbaijan denied the suggestion that their country was not safe for Herzog to visit, and said the actual reason was Turkey’s refusal.

An Azerbaijani official told Ynet that Israel and Turkey had taken part in "intensive negotiations through diplomatic channels that lasted for several days but did not yield results".

Azerbaijan, an ally of Israel, has frequently hosted Israeli delegations, including for Herzog. An Israeli delegation, including three ministers and several officials, are currently in Baku for Cop29.

An Israeli attack on a Lebanese army post in a town in the south of the country has killed one Lebanese soldier and wounded three others.

At least one of the wounded troops is in critical condition, the Lebanese army said on X on Sunday.

At least eight Palestinian civilians were killed and several others wounded on Sunday in attacks across different areas of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources told Wafa news agency that four civilians were killed and others wounded during Israeli shelling of Qizan an-Najjar village, in the Khan Younis area of the southern Gaza Strip.

Two more civilians were also killed after an Israeli attack struck the vicinity of an industrial zone west of Gaza City.

Two others were killed by Israeli bombardment of the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood of southwestern Gaza.

Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 43,846 Palestinians and wounded 103,740 others since October last year, the Palestinian health ministry said on Sunday.