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Airstrikes in Gaza and Lebanon, the US will not cut aid to Israel

2024-11-13 08:25:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including 11 in a makeshift cafe in a part of Israel's declared humanitarian zone, medics said. In Lebanon, warplanes struck the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday and killed 33 people in other parts of the country.

The latest bombings came as the United States said it would not reduce its military support for Israel after a deadline for allowing more humanitarian aid to Gaza passed. The State Department cited some progress, although international aid groups said Israel had failed to meet the United States' demands.

In Lebanon, large explosions rocked the southern suburbs of Beirut - an area known as Dahiyeh, where the Hezbollah organization has a significant presence - shortly after the Israeli military issued evacuation warnings for 11 homes in the area.

There were no immediate reports of casualties. The Israeli military said it had targeted Hezbollah infrastructure, including command centers and weapons production sites, but offered no evidence.

Another Israeli attack on an apartment building east of Beirut killed at least six people. Resident Wael Murtada said the destroyed house belonged to his uncle and that those inside had fled Dahiyehu last month. He said three children were among the dead and other people were missing.

An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Lebanon killed 15 people, including eight women and four children, and wounded at least 12 others, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. The strikes came without warning and state media said the building was housing displaced families.

Israel has stepped up airstrikes on Lebanon since late September, vowing to severely damage Hezbollah and end a year of cross-border attacks by the Lebanese militant group.

A rocket exploded in a storage building in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya on Tuesday, killing two people, emergency teams said. Two other people were injured in another explosion outside the city.

A Hezbollah drone crashed on a daycare center near the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Tuesday morning, but the children were inside an underground shelter and no one was injured. The explosion scattered debris across the playground.

Israeli attacks across Gaza kill 46 people

At the same time, Israel has continued its campaign in Gaza, now more than 13 months old, triggered by the attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel.

An Israeli strike late Monday hit a makeshift cafe used by displaced people in Muwasi, the center of a "humanitarian zone" the Israeli military declared earlier in the war.

At least 11 people were killed, including two children, according to officials at Nasser Hospital, where the victims were taken. Videos from the scene showed men pulling bloodied wounded from tables and chairs placed on the sand inside a sheet metal fence.

An attack on a house in the northern city of Beit Hanoun killed 15 people on Tuesday, including relatives of Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat, who has been reporting from northern Gaza.

Mohamed Shabat and his wife Dima, both volunteer doctors at Kamal Adwan Hospital, were killed along with their daughter Eliaa, according to hospital director Hossam Abu Safiya.

Attacks in central and southern Gaza killed another 20 people, according to Palestinian medical officials.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the attacks.

Under US pressure, Israel allows more aid to Gaza

A few hours earlier, the Israeli army announced a small expansion of the humanitarian zone, where it has told Palestinians evacuated from other parts of Gaza to take shelter. Hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering in tent camps spread in and around Muwasi, a desolate area with few public services.

Israeli forces have also surrounded the northernmost part of Gaza since early October, battling Hamas fighters it says have regrouped there.

While almost no food or aid has been allowed through for over a month, the siege has raised fears of starvation for the tens of thousands of Palestinians believed to still be sheltering there.

The United States gave Israel a 30-day deadline — which expired this week — to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, calling on it to allow at least 350 trucks to enter each day, among other things. So far, Israel has not met this quota. In October, 57 trucks a day entered Gaza on average, and 75 a day so far in November, according to official Israeli figures. The United Nations puts the number at the lowest, at 39 trucks a day since early October.

Israel has announced a series of measures in recent days to boost aid, including the opening of a new crossing into central Gaza and some small shipments of food and water to the north. But so far the impact is unclear.

More forced evacuations in isolated northern Gaza

The Israeli army announced on Tuesday that four soldiers were killed in Jabaliya, bringing to 24 the number of soldiers killed since the start of the operation.

Palestinian health officials say hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, although the true numbers are unknown as search and rescue workers are unable to reach buildings destroyed by the attacks. Israel has ordered the residents of the area to evacuate. But the UN has estimated that around 70,000 people are still there.

Many Palestinians fear that Israel intends to permanently depopulate the area in order to more easily maintain control over it. On Tuesday, witnesses told the Associated Press news agency that Israeli forces had surrounded at least three schools in Beit Hanoun, forcing hundreds of displaced people sheltering inside the buildings to leave.

The drones issued announcements asking people to move south to Gaza City, Mahmoud al-Kafarnah said, speaking from one of the schools as shrieks rang out. "The tanks are out," he said. "We don't know where to go."

Hashim Afanah, sheltered with at least 20 other people in his home, said the army was evicting people from their homes and shelters.

Israel's campaign in Gaza has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities who do not distinguish between civilians and militants in their estimates, but say more than half of the dead are women and children. Israel says it is targeting Hamas militants hiding among civilians.

The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants entered southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 250 hostages. About 100 people are still being held hostage inside Gaza. About a third of them are believed to be dead./ Voa