This is an entry from: Gaza live: Several dead including Hezbollah commander after Israeli strike on southern Beirut
Morning update
9 September 2024 06:08 BST
Good morning Middle East Eye readers,
Here are the latest updates:
- Overnight Israeli strikes on the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza killed a total of seven Palestinians
- Israeli forces raided the Tulkarm and Balata refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, clashing with Palestinians there
- Israeli Likud MP Nissim Vaturi said that a full-blown war with Lebanon will take place in "a matter of days" and that Beirut's Dahiyeh suburb, a Hezbollah stronghold, "will look like Gaza"
- Similarly, former Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz said that his country should shift its focus from Gaza to Lebanon
- The King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge border crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank is set to reopen at 10am local time (07:00 GMT) for passengers after a short closure over a shooting that killed three Israeli border guards