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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.
Israeli forces have committed a 'major massacre' in which hundreds of Palestinians were killed in the Jabalia refugee camp, according to Gaza’s civil defence, while intense Israeli attacks continue across Lebanon.
Around 150 Palestinians have been killed and injured in an Israeli attack on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, which has levelled at least 10 residential buildings, reports the Wafa news agency.
Israeli fighter jets have carried out at least 12 air raids on Beirut in recent hours, striking the Haret Hreik, Borj al-Brajneh, Choueifat and Hadath areas south of the Lebanese capital, according to the report.
Israeli forces are targeting hospitals in northern Gaza, while they continue the stifling siege on Jabalia and deadly attacks across the besieged enclave.
Israeli forces have laid siege to the al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia and the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, where hospital staff say tanks have surrounded the facilities and are shelling the buildings.