🧵: At least 12 people were killed and nearly 3,000 injured on Tuesday when pagers commonly used for communication by Hezbollah members exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon.

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middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-p… ◾️When and where did the blasts take place?

They began in the capital, Beirut, with scores of incidents reported in the suburb of Dahiyeh and other areas of the country around 3.45pm.

According to Reuters, the explosions continued for about an hour after the initial blasts

🔴 LIVE DAY 347 #Israel #Palestine

- Gaza death toll rises to 41,252
- Aid groups say Israel blocking 83 percent of Gaza food aid
- Lebanon’s Hezbollah blamed Israel for a spree of pager explosions across Lebanon

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Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 347th day:

- Hezbollah has vowed to continue "its blessed efforts to support Gaza, its people, and its resistance," even after recent explosions in Lebanon that claimed at least nine lives and left thousands injured.

- Jordan has offered to provide medical aid for "the thousands of Lebanese citizens injured in the mass bombing," according to a statement on X by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

- The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that Israeli soldiers attacked one of its ambulance crews as they attempted to evacuate a sick child in Nablus, a city in the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa news agency.

- The Israeli military confirmed that four soldiers died in Rafah, located in southern Gaza, due to an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion.

- The US military reported that a Yemen-based group shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone on September 10, with a second one being destroyed on Monday.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 334 #Israel #Palestine

- Gaza death toll tops 40,861
- Israel conducts strikes near Tyre in Lebanon
- Slim majority of Israelis back leaving Philadelphi Corridor for hostage deal

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middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-isra… 🔴 MORNING RECAP #Israel #Palestine

Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 334th day:

- Since 7 October 2023 Israel has killed at least 40,861 Palestinians with more than 94,398 wounded and an estimated 10,000 still missing, likely dead and buried under rubble.

- At least three individuals were killed, and another critically injured when an Israeli strike targeted a vehicle in Tubas, located in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

- Amnesty International has called for an investigation into the Israeli military's campaign to expand a "buffer zone" in the occupied Gaza Strip, labelling it as potential war crimes involving wanton destruction and collective punishment.

- The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) told Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun that he has received threats from supporters of both Israel and Russia after initiating charges against their leaders.

- Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that an Israeli attack on tents sheltering displaced people near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza has killed at least four people.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 306 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli strikes on Khan Younis kill at least six
- Turkey submits bid to join South Africa ICJ case
- WHO aims to vaccinate 600,000 Gaza children for polio

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US Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris had her speech in Detroit, Michigan interrupted by pro-Palestine protesters on Wednesday.

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🧵: Who are Hamas' key leaders after the killing of Ismail Haniyeh? ⤵️
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◾️Khaled Meshaal

Meshaal is one of the founding members of Hamas and also regarded as one of the group's chief negotiators in attempts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza

🔴 LIVE DAY 292 #Israel #Palestine

- Ben Gvir's claim that Jewish people can pray at Al-Aqsa sparks outrage
- Gaza death toll "largely reliable," says watchdog
- EU announces first medical evacuations of Gaza children

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The Israeli military has recovered the bodies of four captives from Gaza during an operation in Khan Younis.

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🧵: At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in ongoing Israeli attacks on eastern Khan Younis, amid a new air and ground offensive in the southern governorate.

The army is reportedly still bombing homes and tents housing displaced people in the area ⤵️



The Israeli military accused Hamas of firing at Israeli troops from the humanitarian zone in Gaza, and said it was adjusting the area to target the Palestinian group there

🧵: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued an advisory opinion saying that Israel’s decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territories is "unlawful" and should be brought to an end "as rapidly as possible".

Here are the main points from the advisory opinion ⤵️ “The State of Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful”

🧵: The Nuseirat massacre and the excessive killing of civilians without any "operational need" has only one explanation: Israel seizes any opportunity to shed the blood of as many Palestinians as possible, writes Palestinian peace activist Ahmed Abu Artema in his column ⤵️ “In the morning of Saturday, 8 June, the racist Zionist colonial army carried out horrific massacres, killing at least 274 Palestinian civilians,” writes Abu Artema.

Hours later, they announced that these massacres were a cover to free four Israeli captives in the Nuseirat camp

🔴 LIVE DAY 249 #Israel #Palestine

- Hamas commander killed in Ramallah
- Four Israeli soldiers killed in Rafah
- Over half of Gaza's buildings destroyed

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An Israeli air strike hit a convoy of trucks in Lebanon’s Hermel region near the border with Syria, killing several people.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 242 #Israel #Palestine

- 3,500 Palestinian children face death from starvation
- Over one million Palestinians fled Rafah: UN
- Far-right Israeli minister calls for Lebanon to be sent back to 'stone age'

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Ben Gvir to join provocative ultranationalist 'flag march' in Jerusalem

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🔴 LIVE DAY 217 #Israel #Palestine

- Unrwa office closes after Israeli settler arson attack
- Netanyahu says country ready to "fight with fingernails" after US warns arms could be halted

Follow our live coverage here ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live… UTS trustees, affiliate college to Columbia University, endorse divestment from ‘companies profiting from the war in Palestine’

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🔴 LIVE DAY 214 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli forces storm Rafah border crossing
- 12 Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli attacks on Rafah
= Two Israeli soldiers killed in Hezbollah drone attack

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middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live… 🔴 #BREAKING: Israeli forces storm the Rafah crossing

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🧵: In his latest column, MEE’s editor-in-chief David Hearst writes that the anti-Gaza war protest movement has revived the Palestinian national cause and a new generation of American Jews are challenging the claim that Zionism owns their narrative⤵️
middleeasteye.net/opinion/campus… The parallels between the 1968 protest movement against the Vietnam War and today’s global protest against the Gaza War are many, writes Hearst

🧵: An investigation by MEE reveals that a company owned by an influential Egyptian businessman and ally of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is making around $2m a day from Palestinians fleeing Israel's war on Gaza ⤵️ Hala for Consulting and Tourism Services, the company owned by Sinai tribal leader and business tycoon Ibrahim al-Organi, has been charging Palestinians crossing Rafah to Egypt at least $5,000 per adult and $2,500 per child under 16

🧵: Palestinians have accused Israel’s far-right government and army of complicity following devastating weekend assaults by Israeli settlers.

The attacks, which were undeterred by US sanctions, mark a troubling escalation of violence in the West Bank ⤵️
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On Friday, Amer Jabr was shot in the thigh during an assault by Israeli settlers on his home in the village al-Mughayyir.

His home is one of the many that were destroyed in the latest surge in settler violence, triggered by the disappearance and death of a teenage settler

🔴 LIVE DAY 186 #Israel #Palestine

- Hamas to study Israeli truce proposal despite disagreements
- Scores of dead bodies recovered in Khan Younis after Israeli withdrawal
- France, Egypt, Jordan warn against Rafah invasion

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Speaking to the conservative Real America’s Voice network, Donald Trump said that "any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel and frankly, should be spoken to."

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🔴 LIVE DAY 175 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli strikes on Syria's Aleppo kill 38 people
- Japan to restore funding to Unrwa
- Israel preparing to enter Rafah, Netanyahu says

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Palestinian journalist killed near al-Shifa hospital

Muhammad Abu Sakhil, a journalist for the local al-Quds Radio, has been shot and killed by Israeli forces, according to Al Jazeera.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 172 #Israel #Palestine

- US Secretary of State: "alternatives exist" to Rafah invasion
- UN rapporteur says genocide threshold may have been crossed in Gaza
- Hamas to stick to permanent ceasefire position

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The head of Hamas's political bureau Ismail Haniyeh will head to Tehran today and meet with Iranian officials, according to Iranian media.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 171 #Israel #Palestine

- Palestinian death toll tops 32,226
- Blocked aid for Gaza is a moral outrage, says UN chief
- US announces new airdrops over Gaza, but UN warn that air aid is not enough

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The UN Security Council will vote on a new draft resolution on an "immediate" ceasefire in Gaza.

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The European Union's top humanitarian aid official said he had seen no evidence from Israel to back its accusations against staff from the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) Israel alleges that 12 Unrwa staff members took part in the Hamas-led 7 October attacks. Upon learning of the allegations, the agency dismissed 10 of the employees (two others were dead) in a process that the head of the agency admitted amounted to "reverse due process"