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

Lebanon's Hezbollah elected its deputy secretary general Naim Qassem to succeed slain head Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

Two people, including a child, were killed in Israeli artillery shelling of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

Located in the heart of the Gaza Strip, Al-Bureij camp sits adjacent to the Maghazi and Nuseirat camps, south of Gaza City.

Western officials sent a letter to the Israeli government, warning that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is risking an "economic catastrophe" in the occupied West Bank if it doesn't renew a waiver for international banks to maintain ties with Palestinian financial institutions.

The letter, spearheaded by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, expresses concerns that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will not renew the waiver that is set to expire on Thursday, The Financial Times reported.

"The actions taken by some members of your government to deny the West Bank access to financial resources endangers Israel's security and threatens to further destabilise the entire region," a copy of the letter says.

The letter was also signed by seven of Yellen's counterparts, including officials from the European Union and the United Kingdom, according to the Financial Times.

The Palestinian economy is based on the Israeli currency, the shekel, making it reliant on ties to Israel, and its financial dealings with the rest of the world must go through the Bank of Israel and other Israeli banks.

Read more: US, European officials urge Israel to not sever West Bank from global financial system

Gaza’s Director of Field Hospitals issued an urgent call through Al Jazeera Arabic, urging all available surgeons to return to Kamal Adwan Hospital to assist in treating the injured.

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, stated they are unable to care for dozens of people wounded in the Beit Lahia massacre due to severe shortages in medical resources.

Dr Abu Safiya reported that the hospital’s surroundings have been repeatedly bombed by Israeli forces while medical teams attempt to treat the injured.

"The world must act and not just watch the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip," he said, adding that without additional resources, many of those wounded in Beit Lahia may not survive. He called on the international community to send specialised medical teams urgently as the bombardment continues without pause.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has condemned Israel in a statement following the death of its staff member, Hasan Suboh, in an Israeli strike on Gaza on 24 October.

Suboh was the eighth MSF team member killed in Gaza since the war began, the organisation reported.

“We denounce these killings in the strongest possible terms and are revolted by the fact that in over one year of war, Israel has acted with total impunity. Israel’s repeated direct attacks, which do not distinguish between military objectives and civilians, must be investigated independently,” MSF stated.

The death toll from an Israeli air strike on a building in Beit Lahia, located in northern Gaza, has risen to 55, with dozens still unaccounted for, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

An Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent reported that 40 people were killed, and dozens are missing following an Israeli air strike on a building in Beit Lahia, located in the northern Gaza Strip.

A segment on CNN Newsnight with Abby Phillip on Monday night saw right-wing panellist Ryan Girdusky make a controversial remark toward journalist Mehdi Hasan, resulting in Girdusky’s ban from the network.

During a discussion about Donald Trump’s recent rally at Madison Square Garden, Girdusky told Hasan, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off,” a reference to recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon in September which resulted in pager-activated explosives leading to thousands of Lebanese people being killed or injured. The comment came after Hasan expressed support for Palestinians.

Hasan, a Muslim journalist and founder and editor-in-chief of Zeteo News, reacted in shock, asking, “Did you just say I should die?"

On Monday, Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted a ship travelling through the narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the Red Sea, though the vessel remained undamaged, according to authorities.

This incident broke an 18-day period without reported Houthi attacks, marking a resurgence in assaults that have disrupted shipping in the Red Sea amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

The vessel, navigating the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and separates the Arabian Peninsula from East Africa, reported the attack to the British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre.

The ship's captain noted two explosions near the vessel, but "the vessel and all crew are reported as safe," stated the UK's Maritime Trade Operations.

CIA Director Bill Burns has proposed a 28-day ceasefire in Gaza that would involve Hamas releasing around eight captives in exchange for Israel freeing dozens of Palestinian captives, according to Axios, which cites three Israeli officials.

Burns reportedly discussed this plan on Sunday in talks with Israeli and Qatari counterparts. As part of the proposal, Hamas would release “roughly eight women of all ages or men over the age of 50”.

A senior Israeli official told Axios, “Israel agrees to a temporary pause, but Hamas wants a pause that would open a process that would lead to irreversible Israeli steps. If neither side softens its position, there isn’t going to be a deal.”

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, 

Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza and Lebanon, now in its 389th day:

• Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad condemned Israel's new laws banning Unrwa, describing them as part of "the Zionist war" on Palestinians, with Islamic Jihad calling it "an escalation in the genocide" in Gaza

• The Israeli ban, set to take effect in 90 days, was also criticised by Australia, Belgium, Jordan, Ireland, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK

• UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced strong concern, stressing that there is no "alternative to Unrwa" and warning that the new laws could have "devastating consequences" for Palestinians

• Israeli forces continued their operations in Gaza, killing at least seven Palestinians in Beit Lahia and setting fire to a Unrwa school in Jabalia.

• The Israeli military reported that another soldier died from injuries sustained in fighting in northern Gaza, bringing the number of Israeli troops killed since the conflict began to 772

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

The death toll from Israeli strikes on Baalbek in eastern Lebanon has climbed throughout Monday, with the Lebanese government reporting at least 60 people killed. 

The Israeli Knesset voted overwhelmingly to ban Unrwa in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The vote came despite opposition from the UK and US.

UN officials slammed the vote and the Palestinian Authority said the Israeli Parliament’s action reflected the country’s slide into “fascism”.

Here’s what else you need to know from today's developments:

• Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti, along with other detainees, was assaulted by Israeli guards in Megiddo Prison in September, according to a statement by his office
• South Africa has filed evidence with the International Court of Justice for what it says is a genocide being committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip
• Israel denied a report by Channel 12 that Israel and the US are discussing a 60-day truce in Lebanon
• Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan spoke on the phone on Monday with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araqchi
• Oil prices plunged in a sign that the market believes Israel and Iran will seek to deescalate tensions that many feared would spark on oil war
• At Least two people were killed by an Israeli attack on Jabalia refugee camp

Lebanon's health ministry said at least 60 people were killed on Monday in Israeli attacks on several areas in Baalbek in the eastern Bekaa Valley.

The death toll has more than doubled in recent hours. 

Bachir Khodr, the region's governor, decried what he called the "most violent" attacks on the area since Israel invaded Lebanon. 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's office has slammed the Israeli Knesset's vote to ban Unrwa. 

“We reject and condemn the legislation. We will not allow this. The overwhelming vote of the Knesset reflects Israel’s transformation into a fascist state,” Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for the Palestinian President, said in a statement.

Lebanon's health ministry has updated the death toll from Israeli strikes on Baalbek on Monday in the eastern Bekaa Valley to at least 48 people killed.