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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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We have more information on the Israeli airstrike that hit a residential building in the Sayeda Zainab district south of Damascus (see post at 14:34), which has been the target of previous airstrikes.
The Syrian state news agency is reporting the attack resulted in a “number of deaths and injuries”, without providing a detailed breakdown.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog will meet with the US president, Joe Biden, at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, according to a statement from Herzog’s office.
An Israeli airstrike targeted a residential building in the Sayeda Zainab district south of Damascus on Sunday, the Syrian state news agency said. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, but it rarely acknowledges or discusses them. The strikes often target Syrian forces or Iranian-backed groups.
Israeli media outlet Hareetz has quoted Benjamin Netanyahu discussing military actions during a cabinet meeting today.
Netanyahu said:
When I wanted to eliminate (Hassan) Nasrallah or enter Rafah and other such actions, there were those in the cabinet who opposed it. One of the arguments was the American opposition to the move. I did not agree, and went all the way.
Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, was killed by Israel in a series of strikes on the group’s underground headquarters in Beirut in late September. ‘
In May, despite warnings of devastating humanitarian consequences, Israel pressed ahead with an offensive on Rafah despite an order from the UN’s top court to halt the assault, which it said was worsening an already “disastrous” humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory.
Netanyahu and Trump have spoken three times in the past few days
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday he has spoken with US president-elect Donald Trump three times in the past few days aimed at tightening the strong alliance between Israel and the US.
“These were good and very important conversations,” Netanyahu said in a statement, according to Reuters.
“We see eye to eye on the Iranian threat in all its components, and the danger posed by it. We also see the great opportunities before Israel, in the field of peace and its expansion, and in other fields.”
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AFP reports that police in Amsterdam have arrested pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Police had instructed protesters to leave Dam Square in the city centre. Dutch judges had turned down an urgent request for the demonstration.
It is not yet clear how many arrests have been made.
Police in riot gear moved in on the protesters who were chanting slogans and holding up placards at Dam square in the wake of clashes between Israeli football fans and groups of youths on Thursday.
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Dutch judges today turned down an urgent request for a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Amsterdam, AFP reports, backing a ban called by its mayor after clashes between Israeli football fans and groups of youth.
The Amsterdam district court’s decision comes three days after the Dutch capital was rocked by violence between Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans and men on scooters in several areas of the city.
Five Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were briefly hospitalised in attacks.
Amsterdam police have instructed protesters to leave Dam Square, located in the city centre and said it will arrest people who refuse to leave, the city of Amsterdam said on social media platform X.
In France, a high police presence is being prepared for the France v Israel Nations League match at the Stade de France in Paris on Thursday.
Paris police chief Laurent Nunez described the event as high risk and revealed 4,000 gendarmes would be around the stadium, on public transport and in Paris.
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Seven children among 23 people killed in Israeli airstrike on Alamat in Lebanon - health ministry
At least 23 people, including seven children, were killed and six others injured in an Israeli airstrike on Alamat in Lebanon, the country’s health ministry said in a revised death toll, which is likely to increase throughout the day. The ministry said earlier that at least 20 people, including three children, were killed in the attack (see post at 10.33).
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Summary of the day so far...
At least 20 people, including three 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 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said. Of those, 51 Palestinians were killed and 164 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry said.
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, in a rare high-level meeting since the countries restored ties last year.
In an update, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a drone launched at Israel “from the east” (reportedly from Iraq) was shot down by the air force this morning, with parts of the drone subsequently landing in an open area in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights.
חיל האוויר יירט מוקדם יותר היום, כלי טיס בלתי מאויש ששוגר מכיוון מזרח, בטרם חצה לשטח מדינת ישראל.
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) November 10, 2024
חלקי הכלי נפלו בשטח פתוח באזור רמת הגולן, הופעלו התרעות על פי מדיניות
The update came shortly after the IDF reported a barrage of 15 rockets it said was launched from Lebanon at Israel’s Western Galilee region between 12:38-13:39 local time. Most of the rockets “fell in open areas”, the IDF said.
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Jason Burke is the International security correspondent of the Guardian
Aid agencies, medics and witnesses say those trapped by the fighting in Jabaliya and the north of Gaza are suffering appalling conditions, with very limited water, food stocks running out, debris everywhere and continuing bombardment and combat.
Food experts this week warned that northern Gaza faces imminent famine. In a rare alert, the independent Famine Review Committee said: “If no effective action is taken by stakeholders with influence, the scale of this looming catastrophe is likely to dwarf anything we have seen so far in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023.”
The growing desperation comes as the deadline approaches next week for a 30-day ultimatum the Biden administration gave Israel to raise the level of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza or risk restrictions on US military assistance.
The US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, said Israel had made some progress by announcing the opening of a new crossing into central Gaza and approving new delivery routes.
But he said Israel must do more. “It’s not just sufficient to open new roads if more humanitarian assistance isn’t going through those roads.”
You can read more here:
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Here are the latest images coming out of Jabalia, northern Gaza, which has been the epicentre of a renewed assault by the Israeli military in recent weeks. As we reported in an earlier post, 13 children were among 33 civilians who officials say were killed early this morning by an Israeli airstrike that targeted a densely populated home in Jabalia:
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Israeli forces detained at least 10 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank overnight, the Palestinian Authority’s Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said.
According to Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, the detentions were carried out in numerous areas in the occupied West Bank, including the cities of Jenin, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Tubas, and Jerusalem.
Israeli forces destroyed property and made threats against detainees – which included former detainees who had already spent time in Israeli prisons – and their families while conducting “violent raids on homes”, Wafa reports. Some Israeli troops were reported to have ransacked homes and destroyed personal belongings.
It is estimated that at least 11,600 Palestinians have been arrested in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since last October.
Human rights groups and international organisations have alleged widespread abuse of inmates detained by Israel in raids in the West Bank.
They have described alleged abusive and humiliating treatment, including holding blindfolded and handcuffed detainees in cramped cages as well as beatings, intimidation and harassment.
Saudi army chief to visit Iran on rare trip - reports
The general chief of staff of Saudi Arabia’s armed forces, Fayyad al-Ruwaili, will visit Tehran later today to meet with his Iranian counterpart and discuss defence ties, according to reports.
Reuters has the following report:
Saudi Arabia has not established ties with Israel, but Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has discussed the possibility with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman multiple times over the last years, a source familiar with the discussions told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Iran’s state media said al-Ruwaili will head a high-level Saudi military delegation in Tehran, meet armed forces chief of staff major general Mohammad Bagheri, and discuss bilateral and defence ties.
State media added that Bagheri held a phone call with Saudi Arabia’s defence minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud last year to discuss regional developments and improve defence cooperation between the two countries.
Tehran and Riyadh agreed in March 2023, via Chinese intermediation, to re-establish relations after seven years of hostility that had threatened stability and security in the Gulf and helped to fuel conflicts in the Middle East from Yemen to Syria.
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Israeli airstrike kills 20 people in northern Lebanon, health ministry says
Lebanon’s health ministry says an Israeli airstrike in the northern Lebanese village of Almat, north of Beirut, has killed at least 20 people.
“The Israeli enemy strike on Almat in the Jbeil district killed 20 people including three children and injuring six, in an updated toll,” the ministry said in a statement.
The Shiite Muslim majority village of Almat is located in a mostly Christian region. It is outside Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds of south Beirut and south and east Lebanon which Israel has heavily bombed since it launched its assault on the country late in September.
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In a video post shared on X, the Palestine Red Crescent Society has said its teams transported 14 people injured by an Israeli airstrike on a tent near al-Qarara port, south of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
Death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza reaches 43,603, says health ministry
At least 43,603 Palestinian people have been killed and 102,929 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
Of those, 51 Palestinians were killed and 164 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry said.
Gaza’s health ministry has said in the past that thousands of other dead people are most likely lost in the rubble of the territory..
Lebanese official media has reported an Israeli airstrike on a house in the main eastern city of Baalbek on Sunday (see post at 09.05), which was not preceded by an Israeli army evacuation warning.
“Enemy aircraft launched a strike on a house in the Al-Laqees neighbourhood” of the city, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) said.
Earlier, NNA had reported a rare Israeli airstrike north of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on the Shiite-majority village of Almat, which is located in a mostly Christian region.
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Qatar halts Israel-Gaza ceasefire mediation over lack of ‘good faith
The Qatari government has informed the US and Israel it will stop mediation efforts to halt the conflict in Gaza because it no longer thinks the parties are negotiating in good faith.
The Gulf state has concluded that talks have become a political football, and its efforts to facilitate them were generating criticism towards it, according to a diplomatic source briefed on the situation.
“As long as there is a refusal to negotiate a deal in good faith, they cannot continue to mediate,” the source said.
Qatar’s move is the latest major blow to a faltering effort to end fighting in Gaza which has not produced significant results since a temporary ceasefire and hostage release deal nearly a year ago.
But with a new US administration taking power in just over two months, the Qataris have also made clear to US contacts that they would be willing to resume mediation if both sides showed a “sincere willingness” to reach a deal.
Qatar informed Israel, Hamas officials, the US and Egypt of the decision after a US delegation including the CIA director, Bill Burns, visited Doha for inconclusive meetings in late October.
You can read the full story by my colleagues, Emma Graham-Harrison and Jason Burke, here:
The Israeli military has reportedly attacked in several locations in Lebanon’s north-eastern Bekaa Valley, including in the city of Baalbak and in the Saraain area.
Deadly Israeli airstrikes reported in Jabalia and Gaza City
In the opening summary, we mentioned reports of over 30 people being killed in an Israeli airstrike on Jabalia this morning.
In another deadly airstrike, on the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, five people were killed, with others still missing in the aftermath, Gaza’s civil defence agency said.
“A number of civilians are still under the rubble,” the agency said.
Contacted by Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Israeli military said it was “looking into the reports” of the airstrikes.
A renewed Israeli assault was launched on the northern part of the Gaza Strip last month, with the Israeli military claiming it was to stop Hamas fighters regrouping there.
The blockage of aid and food deliveries and the targeting of civilian infrastructure, however, have led to accusations that Israel is committing the war crime of seeking to forcibly displace the remaining population.
The entirety of northern Gaza is under Israeli evacuation orders but it is unclear how many people remain. Last month, the UN estimated there were about 400,000 civilians unable or unwilling to follow Israeli evacuation orders to the south.
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Opening summary
Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon.
US warplanes staged multiple airstrikes Saturday night on advanced weapons storage facilities in Yemen belonging to the Houthi militant group, the Pentagon has said.
The facilities contained various weapons used to target military and civilian vessels navigating international waters throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, according to information provided to AFP by the Pentagon.
The Houthi-run Al Masirah television network reported three American and British raids that targeted the capital Sana’a’s southern Al Sabeen district.
Elsewhere, 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. The area in northern Gaza has been under a total Israeli siege for weeks and the UN has described conditions there as “apocalyptic”. According to Wafa, a significant number of people injured in the Israeli attack have been transferred to the al-Ahli Baptist hospital for urgent medical care.
Locals continue searching for potential survivors or victims at the scene of the horrific Israeli massacre targeting the Alloush family home in Jabalia, northern Gaza, earlier today. The attack resulted in 33 civilians killed, including 13 children. pic.twitter.com/ye9asOa9B8
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) November 10, 2024
Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif posted a report from the scene of Sunday’s pre-dawn strike on X, saying that the massacre was one of the biggest so far in Jabalia and that the victims were mostly women and children. It was not possible to independently verify the report as Israel does not allow foreign journalists into Gaza.
Israel claimed in a post on X that it had “eliminated dozens of terrorists and destroyed terrorist infrastructures and a warehouse of weapons” in Jabalia, without providing any evidence.
More on those developments soon. In other news:
At least 40 people were killed in strikes across Gaza late on Friday and into Saturday, including two journalist siblings, Ahmad Abu Sakhil and Zahra Abu Sakhil, who were killed together with their father, Muhammad, and three others when Israeli warplanes bombed a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, Al Jazeera reported. Gaza’s media office said their deaths raised the number of journalists killed by Israeli attacks to 188 since 7 October 2023. A day earlier, the local radio journalist Khaled Abu Zir was killed, according to Palestinian media reports.
Others killed in Israeli attacks included two Palestinians who had been sheltering in the grounds of al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah and three men who had been released from Israeli detention moments before, Al Jazeera and Palestinian media reported, as well as children who were reportedly targeted by an Israeli airstrike as they tried to collect water in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
In Lebanon five siblings, three of whom were deaf and mute, were among at least 40 people killed by Israeli strikes late on Friday and on Saturday, local authorities and media reported. Youssef Jundi, a local resident, told the Associated Press that his longtime neighbour and friend, Ghazwa Dabouk, was among the seven people killed in an Israeli strike on the port city of Tyre late on Friday. Dabouk’s sisters Elissar, Rabab and Fidaa, who were deaf and mute, were also killed in the airstrike, together with Dabouk’s brother Ali, who had autism.
Fifteen people were killed in a raid on the civil defence centre affiliated to the Islamic Message Scouts Association in the Lebanese town of Derqim Ras al-Ain, according to the state-run national news agency. Five people were killed and a number of others injured in an Israeli attack on a house in Hanawiya, southern Lebanon, according to reports.
The Qatari government has informed the US and Israel it will stop mediation efforts to halt the conflict in Gaza because it no longer thinks the parties are negotiating in good faith. The Gulf state has concluded that talks have become a political football, and its efforts to facilitate them were generating criticism towards it, according to a diplomatic source briefed on the situation. “As long as there is a refusal to negotiate a deal in good faith, they cannot continue to mediate,” the source said.
Benjamin Netanyahu is set to stay in power in Israel until elections due in 2026 and possibly longer, analysts and officials now believe, after a tumultuous week in which the 75-year-old veteran politician successfully fired his defence minister and was boosted by the results of the US election. Netanyahu’s newly reinforced position could lead to further intensification of Israel’s assault on Lebanon, and prolong its war in Gaza, critics fear – although the incoming US president Donald Trump has said he wants to swiftly end both wars.
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