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

Lebanon is expected to respond to a ceasefire proposal on Monday, according to The Associated Press, quoting an unnamed Lebanese official.

Earlier this week the US ambassador Lebanon handed a ceasefire proposal to Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

Hezbollah is understood to be reviewing the document.

The proposal draft reportedly does not include allow Israel to act militarily in Lebeanon if the deal is violated.

Middle East Eye interviewed Dr Asmaa Abu Hamada, the only remaining surgeon at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

“Despite my young age and recent graduation from medical school, I was forced to be the only surgeon in the operating room who performed the operation completely alone,” she told MEE’s correspondent in Gaza.

Kamal Adwan Hospital became the only hospital capable of providing services to the residents of the northern Gaza Strip, despite medical supplies and medical delegations being cut off to the north, Dr Hamada explained.

“Despite my young age and recent graduation from medical school, I was forced to be the only surgeon in the operating room performing the operations," Dr Asmaa Abu Hamada, the only remaining surgeon at Kamal Adwan Hospital, in northern Gaza, told MEE pic.twitter.com/msXVxZy8Im

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At least six people, including three children, have been killed by an Israeli attack on al-Khraiba village in Lebanon's Baalbek region.

Lebanon's health ministry reported that 11 others, including five children, were wounded. 

The Israeli president has cancelled his planned visit to the United Nation's COP29 climate conference.

President Isaac Herzog's office announced that he would not attend the conference, which is being held in Baku in Azerbaijaan, citing "security considerations".

Israeli soldiers have retreated after reaching their deepest point in Lebanon since invading six weeks ago.

The retreat follows battles with Hezbollah fighters. 

Israeli soldiers captured a hill in the southern village of Chamaa, five kilometres from the Israeli border, earlier on Saturday.

They blew up several homes and the Shrine of Shimon the Prophet, according to local media, but then retreated from the position.

Seven people have been killed and 65 wounded in Israeli attacks on Lebanon in the past 24 hours, according to Lebanon's health ministry.

Israeli air strikes have targeted the Dahiyeh, Haret Hreik and Chiyah areas in southern Beirut. This is the fifth consecutive day that Israel has bombed Lebanon's capital. 

Israeli attacks killed seven people in Lebanon on Friday, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

That brought the toll of Lebanese people killed by Israeli attacks since October last year to 3,452.

An Israeli strike has killed 10 Palestinians and wounded at least 20 others at a school in Gaza City. 

Abu Assi school, currently being used to house displaced families in western Gaza City's al-Shati refugee camp, was targeted on Saturday, according to medics cited by Reuters.

An Italian air force plane carrying more than 15 tons of humanitarian aid to be delivered to the population in Gaza took off on Saturday, according to the Italian defence ministry.

The aid was collected by charity group Confederazione Nazionale delle Misericordie d'Italia.

"Italy is doing and will continue to do everything possible to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza," said Defence Minister Guido Crosetto.

The plane will fly to Larnaca airport in Cyprus, after which the aid will be transferred to Gaza.

Fadi al-Wahidi’s mother has announced she will be going on hunger strike despite having cancer. She said she will refuse her treatment as well as food and water until her son is allowed to travel abroad for medical care. pic.twitter.com/ZIyUH86ZQk

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At least two medics have been killed by Israeli strikes on villages in south Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday.

Israeli air attacks on an emergency response team in the southern town of Kfartebnit killed one medic and wounded at least four others. At least two other medics were missing.

Meanwhile, Israeli air strikes killed a medic in the town of Borj Rahal in Tyre, south of Lebanon.

Elsewhere, Israel launched at least nine air strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut.

An Israeli air strike has killed at least three civilians and wounded others in the Shujaiya neighbourhood east of Gaza City.

Medical sources told Wafa news agency that Israeli warplanes bombed a house belonging to the Samara family in the neighbourhood.

Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 43,799 Palestinians and wounded 103,601 since 7 October 2023, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday.

In a column for Middle East Eye, Ismail Patel, chair of the UK-based NGO Friends of Al-Aqsa, assesses whether mass protests in the UK against Israel's war on Gaza have made a difference. 

He writes: "At their core, protests offer a profound and unequivocal message: 'not in our name'. Regardless of whether they halt violence, they register citizens’ refusal to be complicit with their governments in the horrendous atrocities being committed in Gaza.

"These protests have achieved more than mere moral declarations, bringing about tangible shifts in convincing ways.

"One of the most powerful aspects of the protest movement has been the sheer diversity of those taking part. Protests in Britain and around the world have drawn people of all ages, ethnicities, colours and faiths, who have united to seek justice and freedom for the Palestinian people. 

"In this way, the protests offer a stark contrast to the forces of xenophobia, racism and racial supremacy that underpin the Israeli apartheid regime and its supporters."

You can read the full opinion piece below. 

Opinion: Have UK protests against Israel's war on Gaza made a difference?

Israel forces have detained 12 Palestinians during overnight raids in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society.

The raids targeted Hebron, Nablus, Jenin, Qalqilya and Salfit.

Since Israel's war on Gaza began in October 2023, more than 11,700 Palestinians have been detained from the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem. 

An Israeli bombardment of Rafah, in southern Gaza, killed at least five Palestinians on Saturday morning. 

Three people were killed and others wounded when an Israeli drone targeted a group of civilians in the al-Janina area, east of the city of Rafah, according to Wafa news agency.

Two more civilians were killed after Israeli air strikes hit the Khirbet al-Adas area, north of Rafah.

Elsewhere, an Israeli air strike on Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, killed and wounded several more Palestinians.