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Al Jazeera Arabic have confirmed that the number of people killed in the Israeli bombing of the Dalloul family home in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood has risen to eight.
Medical sources in Gaza report dozens of Palestinians killed as Israeli bombings intensify and tanks advance in the besieged territory's north and south.
At least four Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on two homes in the vicinity of Abu Diya Bakery, west of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Information Center.
Israel attacked the Lebanese capital Beirut in a new wave of powerful air attacks overnight, while it continues its deadly bombardment across the besieged Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian man has been injured by live bullets in the chest during the Israeli forces' storming of the town of Aqqaba in the occupied West Bank, according to the report.
Two Palestinian journalist siblings, Ahmad Abu Sakhil and Zahra Abu Sakhil, have been killed in an Israeli attack on the Fahd al-Sabah school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.
The UN has warned that Palestinian civilians held under “near-total brutal siege” by Israeli forces in northern Gaza are “starving while the world watches”.
Israeli fighter jets are carrying out a 'very heavy bombardment,' with four consecutive strikes reported near Beirut's airport, according to Lebanon’s Al Araby Al Jadeed news outlet.
Israeli forces hit the children's ward with incubators at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital using "planes and quadcopter drones," forcing the evacuation of the nursery, according to medical staff member Eid Sabbah.
“The entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has been announced and executed under our watch”, says Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israeli soldiers raided a home and a warehouse in Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank tonight, reports Wafa news agency, adding that Israeli snipers were also deployed during the raid.