Israel war on Gaza live: Israeli forces attack Gaza City, Rafah
- Hezbollah has released a new drone video it says shows sensitive Israeli sites, including military zones in the northern city of Haifa, as the fears grow of an all-out war between the two sides.
- Rescue workers struggle to pull out bodies buried under the rubble in northern Gaza a day after Israeli strikes killed at least 50 Palestinians across the devastated enclave. Israeli forces have continued attacks on Gaza, including Rafah in the south and Gaza City in the north.
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- 1m ago
(09:50 GMT)
Israeli attack near UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City
Things are moving quickly here in the Gaza Strip. Israeli fighter jets have targeted a place very close to the gates of UNRWA’s main headquarters in Gaza City.
Earlier in the war, the Israeli military stormed these headquarters, even setting the building on fire.
After Israeli forces withdrew, the building was turned into an aid warehouse, where families used to wait for long hours in order to get parcels of food.
Today it has been targeted again. Casualties are still being reported. We are working on verifying more information about this.
In other parts of the territory, more attacks have been carried out by the Israeli army. At least eight Palestinians have been killed in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood after a residential building was completely destroyed.
- 11m ago
(09:40 GMT)
Hezbollah’s drone video showing Israeli sites is another warning shot
This video is titled “To whom it may concern”.
It shows various locations – exact locations. They apparently include the HaKirya complex, which contains Israel’s Ministry of Security and military commands.
The video has something that others do not: vital infrastructure, such as oil reservoirs, electric stations, satellite bases and the maritime coordinates for three gas extraction sites.
The video comes days after more drone footage from Hezbollah showed infiltrations into Israeli airspace over the port city of Haifa.
As there is talk of escalation, this again is a warning from Hezbollah to Israel that it can infiltrate its airspace and it can highlight vital locations that could be targeted in the event of an all-out war.
- 21m ago
(09:30 GMT)
Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel
Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are ready to come to Lebanon to join the Hezbollah group in its battle with Israel if the simmering conflict escalates into a full-blown war, officials with Iran-backed factions and analysts say.
Almost daily exchanges of fire have occurred along Lebanon’s frontier with northern Israel since Israel launched a devastating war on Gaza in the wake of a deadly attack carried out by Hamas fighters inside Israel.
The situation worsened this month after an Israeli air strike killed a senior Hezbollah military commander in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah responded by firing hundreds of rockets and explosive drones into northern Israel.
Israeli officials have threatened a military offensive in Lebanon if there is no negotiated end to push Hezbollah away from the border. The Lebanese group has said it would halt its attacks if Israel stops its Gaza offensive, which has killed more than 37,000 Palestinians.
Houthi fighters march during a rally of support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the U.S. strikes on Yemen, outside Sanaa [File:AP Photo] - 36m ago
(09:15 GMT)
Hezbollah releases more drone footage of Israeli sites, claims attack on barracks
Hezbollah claims to have waged an aerial assault on a military site near the border, killing and injuring Israeli soldiers.
In a statement, the group said it targeted Israel’s Sahel Battalion in the Beit Hilal barracks, achieving a direct hit. There was no immediate comment from Israel’s military.
The announcement came hours after Hezbollah released a new video purporting to display sensitive Israel sites along with their coordinates, as fears grow of an all-out war between the two sides.
The video is overlaid with a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in which he says, “If war is imposed on Lebanon, the resistance will fight without restrictions or rules.”
Lebanese villages are seen in the distance as smoke rises from fires in the hills after rockets launched from southern Lebanon landed on the Banias area in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights, Friday [Jalaa Marey/AFP] - 51m ago
(09:00 GMT)
We must end the fighting: Former Israeli PM
Ehud Olmert has joined a chorus of voices criticising the government’s war strategy and calling for a ceasefire.
In comments carried by Israel’s Hayom newspaper, the former Israeli prime minister said Netanyahu had turned the world against Israel due to the violence unleashed in Gaza.
“The government has lost the support of the world during these months of stagnation,” said Olmert. “At first, everyone supported our response, but with all the destruction in Gaza, support for us eroded.”
Netanyahu has also lost the trust of the Israeli public, he said, who are frustrated by deepening insecurity in the country’s north and the failure to bring back the captives.
“We must end the fighting with an agreement under which all the abductees will be returned and an international force will enter the Gaza Strip and prevent the return of Hamas rule,” said Olmert.
Israelis protest calling for an end of the war in Tel Aviv, Saturday [Jack Guez/AFP] - 1h ago
(08:45 GMT)
69 percent of Gaza’s school shelters damaged during war: UNRWA
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, citing the Global Education Cluster, says 69 percent of all schools sheltering displaced families in Gaza have either been “directly hit or damaged” during the war.
Shelters run by UNRWA, which is the main group providing assistance to displaced people in Gaza, have also been hit repeatedly, according to the agency, killing more than 500 people sheltering in them.
“This blatant disregard of humanitarian law must stop. We need a ceasefire now,” UNRWA said in a post on X.
- 1h ago
(08:30 GMT)
Attacks in Gaza City, Nuseirat kill 10: Report
An Israeli attack on a home in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood has killed at least eight people and injured dozens, reports the Wafa news agency.
A separate attack near a power station in central Gaza’s Nuseirat area has killed two more people and injured others, according to Wafa.
The latest attacks bring the number of people killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours to 56 people, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
- 1h ago
(08:15 GMT)
Houthis claim to team up with Iraqi group to target vessels at Haifa
Yemen’s Houthis claim to have carried out a joint operation with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq against four vessels anchored at Israel’s Haifa port.
In a statement, the Houthis said they fired drones at two cement tankers and two cargo ships at the port yesterday, accusing them of violating a ban on entering “ports of occupied Palestine”.
It described the operation as “successful”, saying they achieved direct hits, but there was no independent confirmation. Israel’s military did not respond to the claim, but said in a post on X it had shot down a drone headed towards the country overnight from the east.
Yesterday, the Houthis also said they successfully attacked the USS Eisenhower in the Red Sea, a claim the US Central Command said was “categorically false”.
The Houthis have pledged to continue carrying out joint strikes with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq “in solidarity with Palestine”.
The USS aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower sails in the Red Sea [File:Bernat Armangue/AP Photo] - 1h ago
(08:00 GMT)
Israeli attacks on declared safe areas add to ‘long list’ of crimes
Sultan Barakat, professor of public policy at Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University, says Israel’s latest deadly strikes add to a “long list of crimes against humanity in Gaza”.
The “tragedy” of the assaults, which killed dozens of people in Shati and al-Mawasi camps, is that they occurred in areas Israel had declared safe and encouraged people to move into, Barakat told Al Jazeera.
“They are now declaring to target Hamas bases there within that context,” he said.
“None of this can be justified. Even when Israel says it targeted individuals linked to Hamas, the way it targets them – with the size of the bombs – means they 100 percent know it is inevitable, given the density of the camps, that many, many civilians will be killed.”
People make their way through the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli bombardment in the Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City on Saturday [Omar Al-Qatta/AFP] - 2h ago
(07:45 GMT)
‘Israeli authorities need to be sanctioned for unlawful killings, abuse’
Antony Loewenstein – the author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on Israel’s arms and surveillance industry – says Israeli authorities need to be sanctioned and held accountable for the unlawful killings and abuse in the Palestinian territory.
He was commenting after a Palestinian man was strapped to an armoured vehicle and used as a human shield by Israeli soldiers. Israel said it would investigate the incident that has caused outrage.
“There is a long history of Israeli troops in the occupied West Banka and Gaza, indeed in Israel itself, of using Palestinians as human shields,” Loewenstein told Al Jazeera.
“And I think it goes to the heart of what occupation does to a population, it dehumanises them,” he said.
To the Israeli military response that the conduct was “breaches of its values”, Loewenstein said, “There are no values under occupation by definition … Israel has been occupying Palestine for over half a century.”
“There has been less attention on the West Bank since October 7 and the rise of killings by settlers and soldiers. It’s so out of control that any Palestinian, including friends of mine that I speak to, say there is no protection for them.
“They fear, rightly so, soldiers and settlers.”
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
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