Closing summary
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said earlier today he had spoken with US president-elect Donald Trump three times in the past few days.
At least 23 people, including seven children, were killed and six others injured in an Israeli airstrike on Alamat in Lebanon’s Mount Lebanon province, Lebanon’s health ministry said.
Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, reports that 13 children were among 33 civilians who were killed early this morning by an Israeli airstrike that targeted a densely populated home in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
In another deadly airstrike, on the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, at least five people were killed, with others still missing, Gaza’s civil defence agency said.
At least 43,603 Palestinian people have been killed and 102,929 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since last October, the Gaza health ministry said. Of those, 51 Palestinians were killed and 164 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
Fayyad al-Ruwaili, chief of staff of the armed forces of Saudi Arabia, is expected to visit Tehran today for talks with Iranian officials, state media reported.
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Agence France-Presse (AFP) reporters have spoken to local people about the devastating Israeli airstrike on Jabalia, in northern Gaza, this morning, in which more than 30 people were killed, including children (see opening summary for more details).
The Alloush family would have been getting ready for breakfast on Sunday morning when the airstrike hit their home in Jabalia, according to a relative.
At around 6am “there was a very huge explosion... when we arrived here, all the bodies were torn apart,” Abdullah al-Najjar told AFP from the scene of the attack.
“This is the loaf of bread that they wanted to eat for breakfast. What is the benefit of a loaf of bread if there is no safety and peace?” he asked, holding up pieces of pita.
Many others had also been in the Alloush family home, which was being used as “a shelter for people during intensified bombing”, Najjar told AFP. “But they all died,” he said.
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