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

Israeli forces detained at least 15 Palestinians from across the occupied West Bank overnight, including a child, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Society and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.

The late-night raids took place in several areas, including Hebron, Ramallah, Qalqilya, Tulkarm, Salfit and occupied East Jerusalem.

More than 11,700 Palestinians have been detained in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the war began in October last year.

An Israeli strike has killed Mohammad Afif, Hezbollah's media relations chief, in the densely populated Ras al-Nabaa neighbourhood of Beirut, according to sources cited by Reuters.

Many people displaced from the capital's southern suburbs by Israeli bombardment had sought refuge in Ras al-Nabaa.

The Lebanese health ministry said the strike killed one and wounded three others.

Security sources told Reuters the Israeli air raid struck a building where the offices of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party were located.

The party's chief in Lebanon, Ali Hijazi, told Lebanese broadcaster Al-Jadeed that Afif was in the building at the time.

Pope Francis has said the international community should study whether Israel's war in Gaza constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people.

In excerpts published on Sunday from a forthcoming book, the pontiff said some international experts say "what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide".

"We should investigate carefully to assess whether this fits into the technical definition [of genocide] formulated by international jurists and organisations," the pope said in excerpts published by Italian newspaper La Stampa.

Pope Francis has previously condemned the deaths of Palestinian children in Israeli strikes in Gaza, and described Israeli air strikes in Lebanon as going "beyond morality".

Last week he met at the Vatican with a delegation of former captives held by Hamas in Gaza, who were campaigning for the release of relatives and others still being held.

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. 

The Israeli military issued call-up notices to more members of the ultra-Orthodox community on Sunday to bolster its forces in its wars on Gaza and Lebanon.

The Israeli Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the defence ministry could no longer grant blanket exemptions to Jewish seminary students from conscription. Such an arrangement had been in place since Israel was created in 1948, when the number of ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, was much smaller than today.

Israel's defence ministry said that 7,000 members of the community would gradually receive call-up notices.

The ministry said it would work with community leaders to ensure ultra-Orthodox soldiers could preserve their religious lifestyles while serving.

In July, the military called up 1,000 ultra-Orthodox men. The policy shift has been opposed by ultra-Orthodox parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

Some rabbis were reportedly urging those who received notices to refuse to serve, Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported on Sunday.

An Israeli air strike on a multi-storey residential building in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, left dozens of Palestinians killed and wounded on Sunday morning.

The government media office in Gaza put the number of those killed at 72. It said the strike hit a residential building that housed members of six families.

Earlier on Sunday, an Israeli air strike killed at least 10 people in al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, when a missile hit a house, medics said.

Four other Palestinians were killed by an Israeli attack on the nearby al-Nuseirat refugee camp.

An Israeli soldier in the Nachshon Batallion of the Kfir Brigade was killed during fighting in northern Gaza on Saturday, the Israeli army has said. 

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Here are the day's key developments:

• An Israeli strike killed 10 Palestinians and wounded at least 20 others at a school in Gaza City.
• The Khan Younis municipality in southern Gaza ran out of the fuel needed to keep its water and sewage facilities working.
• Israeli soldiers retreated after reaching their deepest point in Lebanon since invading six weeks ago. The retreat follows battles with Hezbollah fighters.
• At least six people, including three children, were killed by an Israeli attack on al-Khraiba village in Lebanon's Baalbek region.
• Yemen's Houthi forces attacked a "vital target" in Israel's Red Sea port of Eilat with drones.
• Hezbollah said it bombed several military bases in northern Israel on Saturday. Video footage shows extensive damage to buildings in the northern city of Haifa, including one reported to be a synagogue.

Hezbollah fired some 80 rockets from Lebanon into Israel, the Israeli military has announced.

Video footage shows extensive damage to buildings in Haifa in northern Israel, including one reported to be a synagogue. Five Israelis were injured, and significant destruction was reported along an entire street.

The Khan Younis municipality in southern Gaza has run out of the fuel needed to keep its water and sewage facilities working.

The municipality announced that sanitation, waste connection and transport are out of service, and water wells and desalination plans cannot be operated.

Hezbollah has said it bombed several military bases in northern Israel on Saturday.

This includes the Haifa Technical, Haifa Naval, Stella Maris, Nesher and Tira Carmel bases.

Video footage shows extensive damage to buildings in Haifa, including one reported to be a synagogue. 

Rockets launched from Lebanon struck Haifa on Saturday evening, causing extensive damage to buildings, including one reported to be a synagogue. Five Israelis were injured, and significant destruction was reported along an entire street. pic.twitter.com/VOwUeASHzC

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An Israeli drone attack has killed a Palestinian journalist in Jabalia refugee camp.

Mohammed Saleh al-Sharif was wounded by a drone strike in the camp and was left "bleeding for more than two hours before succumbing to his injuries", Wafa news agency reported.

Israeli forces continue to prevent emergency medical teams from operating in northern Gaza.

Rockets fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon have hit a synagogue in the northern coastal city of Haifa in Israel, according to Israel's military and its medical emergency services.

Two people were reportedly injured.

The Israeli military said 10 rockets were identified as having been fired from Lebanon.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for hitting an Israeli tank in southern Lebanon, saying that its fighters "a Merkava tank on the eastern outskirts of the village of Shamaa with a guided missile, causing it to catch fire".

Yemen's Houthi forces have attacked a "vital target" in Israel's Red Sea port of Eilat with drones, according to the group's military spokesperson, Yahya Saree.

“We confirm our continuation of our military operations against the Israeli enemy,” he added. “These operations will not stop until the aggression stops, the siege on the Gaza Strip is lifted, and the aggression on Lebanon stops.”

Israeli settlers have invaded the village of Beit Furik outside Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Dozens of masked settlers entered the village and burned houses and cars, according to Al Jazeera.

Israeli soldiers blocked the roads surrounding the village and stood by as the settlers launched their attack, local media reported.

“They did not leave anything, the electricity pole, and all our belongings, the sofas, the water tank, they did not leave a thing,” Mahmoud Hananeh, a resident of the village, told Al Jazeera.