Live: Thousands return home as Lebanon ceasefire takes hold
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An AI-generated image released by Hezbollah on Sunday shows fires in and around Tel Aviv, Israel, accompanied by a warning that any attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, will be met with a similar counterattack, echoing the words of Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem.
This comes as sirens sounded in Herzliya, a northern district of Tel Aviv, as video footage shows rockets being fired from Lebanon.
مشاهد لمحاولات الجيش الإسرائيلي اعتراض صواريخ أطلقت من لبنان نحو المركز@SoniaElwafi pic.twitter.com/8Jl1MkiTDm
— التلفزيون العربي (@AlarabyTV) November 24, 2024
Early reports indicate that between 250 and 400 rockets and drones were fired by Hezbollah towards Tel Aviv on Sunday, injuring a number of Israelis.
The Lebanese health ministry said Israeli attacks on Saturday killed 84 people, bringing the total death toll to 3,754 since 8 October 2023.
The ministry added that 15,626 people have been wounded during this period.
The death toll from Israel's Saturday morning strike on central Beirut's Basta al-Fawqa neighbourhood has risen to 29 people, with 67 people injured, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
The ministry says the toll is not final as rescuers are still removing the rubble in search of other victims.
Over 11,800 people have been arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023, according to the Commission of Detainees Affairs, the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and the Palestinian Prisoners Society.
Of those detained, 11,000 people are held in administrative detention without trial or charge.
At least 775 children and 435 women have been detained.
The groups reported that 45 detainees have died in Israeli prisons and military camps.
"Detentions have been accompanied by escalated crimes and violations such as humiliation, brutal beatings, threats against detainees and their families, vandalism and confiscation of property, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure, especially in the refugee camps of Tulkarem and Jenin," the groups said.
Israel bombed Beirut's southern suburbs after issuing strike notices to residents.
Footage shared by local media shows buildings being reduced to rubble.
مشهد للغارة الإسرائيلية التي استهدفت مبنى في الكفاءات pic.twitter.com/5z5lzek2ys
— Al Jadeed News (@ALJADEEDNEWS) November 24, 2024
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borell, called on Sunday for pressure to be exerted on both the Israeli government and Lebanon's Hezbollah to accept a US ceasefire proposal.
At a news conference in Beirut, Josep Borell also urged Lebanese leaders to pick a president to end a two-year power vacuum in the country and pledged 200m euros ($208m) in support for Lebanon's army.
Reporting by Reuters
Several people were injured when a rocket, reportedly launched from Lebanon, struck Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv, the Times of Israel reports.
Another person was lightly wounded by a rocket attack on Haifa.
Israeli media said that a barrage of rockets was fired from Lebanon a day after the biggest Israeli strike on central Beirut.
The Palestinian health ministry reported that 35 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza over the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 44,211 since 7 October 2023.
Additionally, 104,567 people have been wounded since the war began.
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Hezbollah has launched a drone attack on the Ashdod Naval Base in southern Israel for the first time, the Lebanese group said in a statement on Sunday.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army on the attack.
Reporting by Reuters
An Israeli airstrike on a Lebanese army checkpoint in al-Amiriya, southern Lebanon, killed one soldier and injured 18 others, including several in critical condition, according to the Lebanese military.
The attack occurred on the road between Tyre and the border town of Naqoura amid Israeli attempts to encircle the area.
استشهد أحد العسكريين وأصيب ١٨ بينهم مصابون بجروح بليغة نتيجة استهداف العدو الإسرائيلي مركز الجيش في العامرية على طريق القليلة- صور، كما تعرّض المركز لأضرار جسيمة.#الجيش_اللبناني #LebaneseArmy pic.twitter.com/RyxQK9HoUY
— الجيش اللبناني (@LebarmyOfficial) November 24, 2024
A gunman was shot dead after injuring three policemen in a shooting near the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan.
Jordanian government spokesperson Mohammad al-Momani called the incident "a terrorist attack on the Public Security Forces that are doing their duty", according to the state-owned Petra news agency.
"Any infringement on the security of the country and attacks on security personnel will be met with firmness," he added.
Jordanians have regularly held protests near the Israeli embassy in Amman during the war on Gaza, with demonstrators calling for the embassy’s closure and for Jordan to sever ties with Israel.
Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,
Here are the latest updates:
- Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed seven Palestinians, including four children, on Sunday morning.
- The Israeli army issued new expulsion orders for Palestinians in Gaza City's Shujaiya, forcing hundreds to flee overnight.
- Israeli forces killed three people in an attack on the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon.
- A gunman was shot dead in Jordan after injuring three policemen near the Israeli embassy in Amman.
- The body of a missing Israeli rabbi, Zvi Kogan, was found in the United Arab Emirates.
Our liveblog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.
Here are today's key developments:
-An Israeli strike on northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital has injured its director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. Speaking on-camera as he lay in a hospital bed, he insisted that he "will continue to provide care no matter the cost" and that it is "an honour... to serve the people that are left."
-Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for Hamas' armed wing, said an Israeli woman held captive in northern Gaza has been killed as a result of an Israeli air strike. He added that another female Israeli captive was critically wounded and that her life was in danger.
-Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said that around 80 percent of verified deaths in the Gaza Strip occurred in residential buildings, which have been regularly targeted by Israeli air strikes.
-The Lebanese broadcaster Al-Jadeed is reporting that Lebanon's objection to Germany and Britain monitoring and enforcing United Nations Resolution 1701, and Israel's objection to France's participation, will not undermine the pending ceasefire agreement. This follows the return of the US Special Envoy Amos Hochstein to Washington, after days of meetings in Beirut and Tel Aviv.
-Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday praised the "courageous decision" of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to seek the arrests of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
Video has emerged of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital, speaking on-camera as he lies in a hospital bed after sustaining an injury from an Israeli drone strike.
The defiant Abu Safiya insists that he "will continue to provide care no matter the cost" and that it is "an honour for me to serve the people that are left."
BREAKING: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, speaks after being injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting the hospital:
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) November 23, 2024
“We will continue to provide care no matter the cost…it is an honor for me to serve the people that are left, we… https://t.co/HOYyz0n7EQ pic.twitter.com/kOb93M4VPQ
