Palestinian officials say 16 people, including five women and four children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday.
An attack destroyed a house in the Nusrat refugee camp built in central Gaza, killing at least 10 people, including four women and two children. Audah Hospital, which received the bodies, confirmed the deaths and also said that 13 people were injured. Hospital records show that the dead include a mother, her baby and her five siblings.
Another attack on a house in Gaza City killed six people, including a woman and two children, according to Civil Defense, the first responders who work under the Hamas-run government.
Israel says it only targets militants and accuses Hamas and other armed groups of endangering civilians by operating in residential areas. The military rarely comments on individual attacks, which often kill women and children.
Gaza Ministry of Health says. 41,000 Palestinians have been killed. in the area since the October 7 attack by Hamas Israel Hamas war About a year ago. The ministry does not distinguish between fighters and civilians in its count, but says more than half of those killed were women and children. Israel says it has killed more than 17,000 militants without providing evidence.
The war has wreaked havoc and displaced nearly 90 percent of Gaza's 2.3 million population.
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White House envoy meets with Israeli leaders
TEL AVIV, Israel — A top White House Middle East envoy is meeting with Israeli leaders in hopes of easing tensions between Israel and Lebanon.
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched an attack on Israel shortly after the October 7 attack by Hamas. Israel and Hezbollah are firing each other daily while avoiding an all-out war. The fighting has displaced tens of thousands of civilians on both sides of the border.
During a meeting with US Ambassador Amos Hochstein, Israeli Defense Minister Yves Gallant warned that the time for a political settlement was running out and Israel was moving towards a tougher action against Hezbollah.
Gallant warned that “the only way to ensure the return of Israel's northern communities to their homes remains through military action,” his office said.
Hochstein brokered a maritime border agreement between Lebanon and Israel in 2022. The two countries have been officially at war since Israel's independence in 1948.
The leader of Hamas says that the missile attack by the Yemeni rebels has sent a message.
SANAA, Yemen — Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has told Yemen's Houthi rebels that their recent missile attack has sent a message to Israel.
Yahya Sinwar's letter to Abdul Malik al-Houthi was published by the Houthis' al-Masira news channel on Monday, a day after a missile fired by Iran-backed rebels landed in an open area in central Israel and was hit by an airstrike. Sirens went off. International Airport.
According to Al-Masira, Sinwar's letter read, “I congratulate you for being able to bypass all defense systems and send your missile deep into the enemy's presence.”
Sanwar added that the Yemeni missile attack sent a message that efforts to “control” Hamas have failed and that backing of Iran-backed groups is becoming more effective.
Hamas launched an attack on southern Israel on October 7 and since then has been “fighting a defensive war that has exhausted the enemy,” Sinwar said. He added that Hamas had prepared Israel's political will for a “long war of power”.
Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, Iran-backed groups in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq have claimed responsibility for several attacks against Israel and said they are backing their allies in Hamas. .
Palestinians say Israeli settlers stormed a school in the West Bank and beat staff. Israeli soldiers later arrested the principal of the school and 2 others.
Ramallah, West Bank — Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian school in the occupied West Bank with batons, beating staff members and tying up the principal, Palestinians say.
The Israeli army said Palestinians attacked an Israeli nearby before fleeing the school on Monday, injuring him in the head. A group of Israelis chased the attackers and a clash ensued, injuring several Palestinians, he said.
Hassan Malihat, a Palestinian lawyer who was visiting the school near the city of Jericho at the time, said the settlers entered around 8:00 a.m. He says the Israeli army arrived about two hours later and the staff, including the principal, were arrested. Three members were arrested.
Troops and police were dispatched to the school, the standoff was defused and several suspects were arrested, the military said.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Rescue Service says seven Palestinians were injured in the clash.
Settler violence in the West Bank has increased since the October 7 attack by Hamas in Gaza. In some cases, Israeli settlers Attacked Palestinian villages. Setting fire to vehicles and property.
There has also been an increase in car-ramming, stabbing and shooting attacks against Israelis by Palestinian militant groups and lone attackers.
Israel captured the West Bank along with Gaza and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East War — lands Palestinians want for a future state.
Three million Palestinians live in the West Bank under Israeli military rule, with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority exercising limited autonomy in some areas. More than 500,000 settlers with Israeli citizenship reside there. More than 100 settlements Considered illegal by most of the international community.
A Turkish-American activist killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to a Turkish autopsy.
ANKARA, Turkey – Preliminary results from an autopsy by Turkish authorities show that Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezegi Egi, who was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank, died of a gunshot wound to the head.
The eight-page report, signed by four forensic doctors and a forensic technician, was made available to The Associated Press on Monday. It described details such as a skull fracture caused by a gunshot and brain tissue damage, noting that a toxicology report and tissue sample analysis are still pending.
The 26-year-old activist from Seattle, who held dual US and Turkish citizenship, was killed on September 6 during a protest against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. His funeral and cremation took place on Saturday in the Turkish Aegean coastal town of Dedham.
The Israeli military said last week that Igi was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by Israeli forces. Turkey is conducting its own investigation into his death.
A United Nations agency says that the polio campaign in Gaza has targeted 90 percent of children.
JERUSALEM — The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says that in the first phase, A Polio vaccination campaign It was successfully targeted in Gaza, reaching 90 percent of children.
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said in a post on social media platform X that Israel and Palestinian militants have taken a massive humanitarian pause to allow the campaign to continue.
Lazarini wrote on Monday that the vaccination campaign showed that “aid can be delivered without hindrance when there is political will.”
UNRWA is the main humanitarian aid provider in the coastal enclave. Health workers plan to administer a second dose of the vaccine later this month.
The campaign was launched after Gaza was identified. First case of polio in 25 years and attempted to reach approximately 640,000 children under 10 years of age. Health workers faced many challenges, including damaged roads, health facilities and almost a year of ongoing fighting in the Israel-Hamas war.
Israel's defense minister says the deal with Hezbollah to stop fighting on the border between Israel and Lebanon is running out of time.
JERUSALEM — Israel's defense minister has told his US counterpart that a deal with Hezbollah to end fighting on the Israeli-Lebanon border is running out.
Yves Gallant told Defense Minister Lloyd Austin that “the prospect of a consensus framework in the Northern Plains is fading as Hezbollah continues to 'align itself' with Hamas.”
“The light is clear,” Gallant added, according to a statement from his office Monday.
After the war in Gaza began, Hezbollah began firing rockets and drones into northern Israel, which was sparked by an October 7 attack by Hamas. Both armed groups are allied with Iran, and Hezbollah says it is working in solidarity with the Palestinians.
Israel has responded to these attacks with airstrikes and targeted killings of Hezbollah commanders. He has threatened a massive operation, raising fears of another all-out war.
Hezbollah has said it would stop its attacks if a cease-fire is reached in Gaza, but months of negotiations brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt have repeatedly stalled.
Hamas has demanded a lasting ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza as part of any deal to free the hundreds of hostages taken since the October 7 attack.
“In any possible scenario, Israel's defense establishment will continue to operate with the goal of eliminating Hamas and ensuring the return of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza,” Gallant told Austin.