Morning update
Good morning Middle East Eye readers,
Here are the latest updates:
- The death toll from Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza yesterday has risen to 111, including at least 72 people who were killed in brutal Israeli’s attack on a multi-storey building in Beit Lahiya.
- Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least four people were killed and many others injured as Israel bombed the so-called humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi in southern Gaza.
- Israel killed two rescue workers, wounded two paramedics and bombed an ambulance centre in the town of Bazouriyeh in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s ministry of health.
- UN chief Antonio Guterres renewed his calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon as he spoke to reporters in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, ahead of the G20 summit, which starts on Monday.
- Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that Israeli forces have arrested at least 15 Palestinians after storming the Dheisheh refugee camp near the city of Bethlehem and several raids in the occupied West Bank.
- Hezbollah said it fired a number of rockets at Israeli forces in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel just after midnight on Monday, following Israel’s killing of the Lebanese armed group’s media chief Mohamed Afif in the Beirut area.
- Iran has condemned Israel’s killing of Afif, describing him as the “voice of the Lebanese nation and a symbol in the mission of raising awareness and enlightening public opinion”.
- Saudi Arabia denounced Israel’s targeted strikes on Unrwa workers and facilities, after an attack on a Unrwa-run Abu Assi school in northern Gaza on Saturday that killed at least 10 people.