{"id":121217,"date":"2024-11-02T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T06:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121217"},"modified":"2024-11-02T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T06:01:09","slug":"israel-pummels-lebanon-and-gaza-killing-dozens-in-fresh-waves-of-airstrikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121217","title":{"rendered":"Israel pummels Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens in fresh waves of airstrikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BEIRUT (AP) \u2014 Israel launched dozens of intense <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/middle-east\">airstrikes across Lebanon\u2019s<\/a><\/span> northeastern farming villages on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding scores more, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported.<\/p>\n<p>In <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\">central Gaza<\/a><\/span>, Palestinians recovered the bodies of 25 people killed in a barrage of Israeli aerial attacks that began Thursday, hospital officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The latest violence comes against the backdrop of a renewed diplomatic push by United States President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, days before the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/election-2024\">presidential election<\/a><\/span>, to reach temporary cease-fire deals. <\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s emergency services said seven people were injured before dawn Saturday in attack in the central town of Tira. Three projectiles crossed into Israel from Lebanon, Israel\u2019s military said, and some were intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>The Magen David Adom service said two of those injured were in moderate condition from the attack, and the others had milder injuries. A photo the service released showed damage to what appeared to be an apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has stepped up its offensive against Hamas\u2019 remaining fighters in Gaza, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-war-northern-gaza-displacement-aid-20628253b26a2bdcf3c844850f20da38\">pulverizing areas in the north<\/a><\/span> and raising fears of worsening humanitarian conditions for civilians still there. <\/p>\n<p>In Lebanon, Israel has broadened its strikes in recent weeks to bigger urban hubs, like <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-hezbollah-mideast-latest-30-october-2024-32c614e64e8959768ac3f50aa67548ea\">the town of Baalbek<\/a><\/span>, home to 80,000 people, after initially targeting smaller border villages in the south, where Hezbollah conducts operations. <\/p>\n<p>Iran-backed Hezbollah doubles as a major political party and provider of social services in Lebanon. <\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah began firing rockets, drones and missiles from Lebanon into Israel in solidarity with Hamas immediately after the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-war-one-year-anniversary-cf123f95609051e8e8eaf6aebe661b6a\">Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel<\/a><\/span>, which triggered the war in Gaza. The yearlong cross-border fighting boiled over to full-blown war on Oct. 1, when <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-gaza-news-09-30-2024-83ea5f243688f309754ec74850de4238\">Israeli forces launched a ground invasion<\/a><\/span> of southern Lebanon for the first time since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>In <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/lebanon-christianity-evacuations-israel-2024-mideast-wars-45932d94a9624141addd8738fa12b085\">Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa Valley<\/a><\/span> \u2014 where small villages, olive groves and wineries nestled between the country\u2019s mountain ranges had largely been spared the worst of Israeli bombardment until recently \u2014 Israel conducted a series of heavy airstrikes Friday, killing at least 52 people, driving more families to flee with whatever they could carry and sending thick plumes of smoke over the horizon. <\/p>\n<p>Intensified Israeli airstrikes on and around <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/lebanon-christianity-evacuations-israel-2024-mideast-wars-45932d94a9624141addd8738fa12b085\">the northeastern city of Baalbek<\/a><\/span> after Israel issued evacuation warnings have prompted 60,000 people to flee, emptying nearby villages, said Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region.<\/p>\n<p>In Lebanon, rescuers searched for survivors after airstrikes killed nine people and brought down a building that had housed 20 people in the town of Younine. Further Israeli strikes killed 12 people in the town of Amhaz and 31 others across at least a dozen villages in Lebanon\u2019s northeast, bringing the total death toll to 52, the Health Ministry said. The bombardment left 72 people wounded, the ministry added. <\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from Israel on the deadly strikes. <\/p>\n<p>In Lebanon\u2019s capital, Israeli planes <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/lebanon-israel-government-beirut-war-and-unrest-general-news-964736462e66415f9c27b71886d0f93a\">pounded the southern suburb of Dahiyeh<\/a><\/span> overnight and early Friday for the first time in four days, spreading panic after a rare lull. The Israeli military, which warned residents to evacuate at least nine locations in Dahiyeh, said it hit Hezbollah weapons manufacturing sites and command centers. <\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of casualties from Dahiyeh, where fears of Israeli bombings drive a mass outflow of residents each night. <\/p>\n<p>Bulldozers rumbled through clouds of dust and smoke Friday, clearing rubble from the pulverized roads where Israeli warplanes had reduced dozens of buildings to their skeletal remains. <\/p>\n<p>Formerly home to families and businesses, mid-rise apartment blocks were left open to the breeze, walls blown off and furniture buried. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/what-is-hezbollahisrael-lebanon-b4daa0a6084df27099cef45b59120034\">Hezbollah supporters<\/a><\/span> in several locations raised the group\u2019s bright yellow banner atop the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah erupted in 2023, more than 2,897 people have been killed and 13,150 wounded in Lebanon, the Health Ministry reports, not including Friday\u2019s rising toll. Health authorities say that a quarter of those killed were women and children.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, United Nations agencies estimate that Israel\u2019s ground invasion and bombardment of Lebanon has <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-displaced-hamra-beirut-582c617d6d3b8639c8c8ddec4a6916b7\">displaced 1.4 million people<\/a><\/span>. Residents of Israel\u2019s northern communities near Lebanon, roughly 60,000 people, have also been <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-evacuees-gaza-war-1841834d89af938a8445821567640aea\">displaced for more than a year<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah has kept up firing rockets into northern Israel, with projectiles launched from Lebanon on Thursday crashing into agricultural areas and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-lebanon-hezbollah-iran-news-10-31-2024-5554f469d1ac348c8da19b7faa3e5fbc\">killing seven people<\/a><\/span>, including four Thai farm workers.<\/p>\n<p>Israel also pressed on with its bombardment of Gaza on Friday, where a barrage of airstrikes hit central Gaza\u2019s Nuseirat refugee camp and killed at least 21 Palestinians \u2014 including an 18-month-old and his 10-year-old sister \u2014 according to health officials at the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli strikes also hit a motorcycle in Zuwaida and a house in Deir al-Balah, killing four more people, hospital officials said, bringing Friday\u2019s overall death toll in Gaza to 25. <\/p>\n<p>Israel said it targeted <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hamas-gaza-palestinian-authority-israel-war-ed7018dbaae09b81513daf3bda38109a\">Hamas infrastructure<\/a><\/span> and a militant operating near the Nuseirat refugee camp, but did not comment on the strikes outside the camp. It said it was aware of reports of civilian casualties and was investigating. In a separate announcement, the army said an airstrike on a vehicle in Gaza\u2019s southern town of Khan Younis killed a senior member of the Hamas political bureau, Izz al-Din Kassab, and his assistant, Ayman Ayesh.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas confirmed the death of Kassab, who was not well known to the public. Israel alleged he was a coordinator between militant groups in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>As American diplomats left the region after a flurry of meetings with Israeli officials, there were <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-israel-gaza-hamas-hezbollah-us-ceasefire-negotiations-4fdcf546eb73faf26717b76b4bb3a919\">no signs of a breakthrough on a cease-fire<\/a><\/span> in either Lebanon or Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Hamas doubled down on its longstanding demands for a permanent cease-fire and complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, saying Israel offered only a temporary pause in the war and an increase in aid shipments in the latest negotiations. There was no immediate comment from Israel. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposals do not meet the comprehensive needs of the Palestinian people in terms of security, stability, relief, and reconstruction,\u201d said senior Hamas official Bassem Naem, speaking first to the Hamas-run Al Aqsa TV before confirming the group\u2019s position to The Associated Press. <\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s blistering war in Gaza has <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-gaza-war-palestinian-medic-mother-killed-89c8e9bde2d3f772549fa6c0e9f77a46\">killed more than 43,000 Palestinians<\/a><\/span> since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants killed roughly 1,200 people in Israel and took some 250 hostages back to Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>Health officials inside Hamas-run Gaza <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033\">do not distinguish<\/a><\/span> between civilians and combatants, but say more than half of the dead in the enclave are women and children.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces have recently shifted their attention to Hamas militants who they say have regrouped in northern Gaza, renewing an offensive that has <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hamas-israel-generals-plan-eiland-gaza-219d7eb9a3050e281ccc032d5a56263c\">trapped tens of thousands of people<\/a><\/span> under intense bombardment without enough food or water. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli airstrikes have repeatedly hindered an <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-gaza-polio-who-vaccinations-3acaa0dcf9744810c51032f45e609a2f\">emergency polio vaccination campaign<\/a><\/span>, which the World Health Organization announced it planned to finally resume on Saturday \u2014 but only in Gaza City. Towns further north, like Jabaliya, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun, remain inaccessible as Israel tightens its siege. <\/p>\n<p>The U.N. and other humanitarian organizations warned Friday that \u201cthe situation unfolding in north Gaza is apocalyptic,\u201d citing <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gaza-unrwa-west-bank-israel-aid-1db00a3979b5b8759823e1a81da9c6fb\">Israel\u2019s denial of humanitarian aid<\/a><\/span> to the area, military raids on hospitals, airstrikes on shelters and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-gaza-war-unrwa-refugees-palestinian-aid-6698d3cab282775bd5ac8012dec4a92c\">obstruction of Palestinian rescue teams<\/a><\/span> who struggle to help survivors after Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Shurafa reported from Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip. 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