The Jews murdered at least 99 Christian & Muslim Gazans and injured 169 others in eight massacres of families in the last 24 hours, Gaza’s health ministry said.
- A missile was fired by an Israel regime drone in Beit Lahiya on a group of people who were collecting wood for cooking. Four of them were confirmed dead.
At least 37 people were slaughtered and 151 were injured by Israel regime strikes across Lebanon on Thursday, the Lebanese health ministry said.
- At least 28 on-duty medics have been murdered in the past 24 hours by the Jews in Lebanon, the World Health Organization chief said on Thursday.
Three UN schools bombed in Gaza in last three days
Middle East Eye reports:
Three UNRWA-operated schools now housing displaced people in Gaza have been bombed by Israel in the last three days, Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said.
The schools were home for more than 20,000 displaced people, Lazzarini said, adding that some schools were hit more than once.
“More than 140 UNRWA schools have come under attack since 7 October, the majority while people were taking refuge in them under the UN flag,” he said.
“Schools used to be a safe haven for learning. They have now turned into hell for far too many,” he said.
RELATED, FROM AL JAZEERA: An unexploded ordinance left behind by the Israeli military is reported to have killed three kids. One of them arrived at the hospital after losing a limb because of the intensity of the explosion that took place.
Gaza’s education sector suffers devastating losses amid conflict
Middle East Eye reports:
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza reported that Israel’s ongoing war has severely disrupted education in the besieged region over the past year. Key findings include:
- Over 650,000 students have been barred from attending school for the second consecutive academic year
- Approximately 100,000 students have lost access to higher education institutions
- Around 35,000 kindergarten-aged children have been deprived of early education
- Since the onset of the war, 11,600 school-aged children have been killed
- The conflict has resulted in the deaths of 750 teachers and educational staff
- Additionally, 1,100 students pursuing higher education have lost their lives
- The casualties also include 130 scientists, academics and university professors
![Palestinians inspect the destruction following the Israeli attack on the Al-Taba’een school, where displaced people took shelter, in al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza on August 10, 2024. [Mahmoud İssa – Anadolu Agency]](https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8-12-s-300x200.jpg)
Israeli fighter jets bomb West Bank coffee shop, killing 18 Palestinians
Middle East Eye reports:
Israeli forces killed 18 Palestinians on Thursday after bombing a coffee shop in the occupied West Bank using fighter jets, in the first such attack since the Second Intifada during the early 2000s.
At least one missile reportedly hit a busy cafe in the crowded Tulkarm refugee camp late at night as citizens gathered there. Ambulances and first responders rushed to the scene after the raid.
Video from the site posted on social media showed what appeared to be a corpse suspended in the air and rubble spewed across the street with cries in the background.
A source within the Palestinian security services said this was the deadliest single attack in the occupied West Bank since 2000.
The Israeli army confirmed the strike and said it was a joint operation carried out by the Shin Bet internal security service and the air force, according to a brief statement by the military.
AL JAZEERA ADDS: The Israeli military said that it killed Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi, an alleged Hamas leader in the occupied West Bank, following a deadly strike in the Tulkarem refugee camp.
IMEMC ADDS: Volunteer paramedic at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Diala Hadaida, said: “We witnessed difficult scenes after the bombing, with the remains of children and elderly people scattered and hanging on power lines, in addition to several Palestinians being trapped under the rubble.”
Since October 7, 2023, the Tulkarem governorate has been subject to serious Israeli military escalation, leading to the death of 152 Palestinians, including twenty-one children and four women, bringing the number of slain Palestinians in the West Bank, to 741 including more than 160 children, 11 women and two medics.
AL JAZEERA ADDS: Journalist Abed Abu Shehadeh says Israel used a fighter jet in its attack on the occupied West Bank that killed 18 Palestinians, something that had not happened since the second Intifada.
He noted that the Israeli military used an Apache helicopter gunship in its massive raid on the Jenin refugee camp in June 2023, also for the first time in 20 years, suggesting that there is “a wider Israeli plan concerning the West Bank”.
A mother and her two children were among 18 killed in Israeli fighter jet strike on Tulkarem.
The Palestinian health ministry stated that the strike led to a total of 18 people being killed by Israeli strikes.
Elsewhere, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian young man, on Thursday, after an alleged stabbing attempt at a military roadblock, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Salah Ziad Issa Shawahin, 23, died after Israeli soldiers shot him with live ammunition near Hebron.
Israeli attacks have killed 50 Palestinians in 15 days in the West Bank.
Your Money: Another $1.2 billion tax dollars goes toward Israel – to maintain ships in the Red Sea
Middle East Eye reports:
The US Department of Defense plans to allocate around $1.2 billion for the upkeep of military vessels stationed in the Red Sea, according to recently released budget documents.
This funding will also be used to replenish missile stockpiles, which are essential for protecting Israel as it continues its war on Gaza.
The spending is linked to “costs incurred by the Department of Defense within the US Central Command region in responding to the situation in Israel or to hostile actions in the region as a direct result of the situation in Israel,” one of the documents says.
NOTE: The US continues to provide Israel with tens of millions of dollars a day in military aid (plus billions in emergency supplies) – while it commits genocide.
Healthcare workers, first responders in Lebanon take a massive hit in Israeli airstrikes
Middle East Eye reports:
More than 40 first responders and firefighters have been killed by Israeli fire since it invaded Lebanon three days ago, according to Lebanon’s health minister, Firass Abiad.
Abiad said that 97 “paramedics and firefighters” had been killed and 188 wounded since Hezbollah and Israel began exchanging fire on 8 October.
He added that a total of 1,974 people had been killed, among them 127 children, and that more than 9,350 had been wounded.
The World Health Organization chief on Thursday said that 28 healthcare workers had been killed in the last 24 hours in Lebanon amid an escalation in conflict with Israel.
NOTE: Healthcare workers are a protected group in war.
Israel allegedly used (banned) white phosphorus Thursday in Beirut residential area
Palestine Chronicle reports:
The Israeli army targeted early Thursday a residential area in Beirut using internationally prohibited white phosphorus bombs, resulting in the death of nine people and the injury of 14 others, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced.
The Israeli airstrike reportedly hit a center for the Islamic Health Society in a residential building in the Bachoura neighborhood in Beirut.
Later in the day, the Islamic Health Society confirmed the hit and mourned “seven martyrs” who it said were killed in the Israeli airstrike on the Beirut locality of Zqaq el-Blat, according to the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA).
NOTE: Use of white phosphorus in civilian areas is considered a war crime due to its extremely dangerous effects on the human body. White phosphorus ignites instantly when in contact with oxygen. It can burn through the human body, including through bone, causing severe, excruciating damage. It can also cause extreme harm when inhaled, with risks of suffocation, cardiovascular failure, coma, death, and other lifelong effects. The substance burns at temperatures of up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
Israel targets potential Hezbollah successor in Beirut airstrike
New York Times reports:
Israel bombed a meeting of Hezbollah’s senior leadership around midnight on Thursday, a gathering that included Hashem Safieddine, the presumed successor of Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s longtime chief who was assassinated in an airstrike in Lebanon last week, according to three Israeli officials.
The three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said Israel had struck an underground bunker belonging to Hezbollah near Beirut, the Lebanese capital.
The strike was a sign that Israel had not let up on its campaign to eliminate the leadership of the Iranian-backed group, nearly a week after Mr. Nasrallah was killed.
Mr. Safieddine, Mr. Nasrallah’s cousin, is in his 50s and has long been a major player in Hezbollah and has been considered a contender to become the group’s new secretary general. Israeli officials previously told The New York Times that Mr. Safieddine was one of the few senior Hezbollah leaders not present at the site of Israel’s heavy bombardment last Friday near Beirut that killed Mr. Nasrallah.
It was not immediately clear if Mr. Safieddine was present in the bunker struck overnight Friday.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the strike, but had issued an evacuation order for the Burj al-Barajneh neighborhood in southern Beirut late on Thursday night. Shortly afterward, around midnight, a series of huge explosions rocked the Dahiya, the densely populated neighborhoods just south of Beirut where Mr. Nasrallah was killed and Hezbollah holds sway.
The shock waves
sounded across the Lebanese capital, shaking buildings; they were felt
at least 15 miles away. It was one of the heaviest bombardments in the
area since the war began last October, according to Lebanon’s state-run
news agency.
Israel issues evacuation orders in south Beirut, tells residents not to return “until further notice”
Al Jazeera reports:
The Israeli army issued an “urgent warning” Thursday to the residents of a building in the Hadath neighborhood of southern Beirut and the buildings adjacent to it: “You are located near Hezbollah facilities and interests, against which the [Israeli army] will operate in the near future.”
The military also told residents of more than 20 towns in south Lebanon to evacuate their homes immediately.
Warnings such as these have in the last weeks proceeded violent air attacks on Beirut.
The latest warnings took the number of southern towns subject to evacuation calls to 70. Residents complain that the warnings often come with little time to make plans to seek refuge.
AL JAZEERA ADDS: Israel’s military has warned Lebanese people who were ordered to evacuate dozens of villagers in southern Lebanon to “not return home until further notice”.
Ardraee said in an earlier post that people were “prohibited” from evacuating toward the south of the country.
“Be careful. You are prohibited from heading south. Any movement south could put you in danger,” he said.
A bit of recent history on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict:
Iran warns US it will retaliate over any Israeli strike
Middle East Eye reports:
Iran’s mission to the United Nations said that Tehran has warned the US it would attack again if Israel retaliates for Iran’s missile strike on Tuesday.
Iran said it exchanged messages with the US using the Swiss embassy in Tehran as an intermediary.
“Our response will be solely directed at the aggressor. Should any country render assistance to the aggressor, it shall likewise be deemed an accomplice and a legitimate target,” Iran’s mission said.
BACKGROUND: On April 1, 2024, in an unprovoked attack, Israel launched a missile attack on Iran’s consulate in Damascus, which resulted in the killing of 13 people including top Iranian military commander Major General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and his deputy. See more recent Iran-Israel incidents in yesterdays’ update. Go to “Biden admin puts the cart before the horse to make Israel the righteous victim (again), green-light attack on Iran.”
Anadolu Agency reports:
An Iranian military adviser died Thursday of injuries sustained from an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital, Damascus, early this week.
The semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr said Majid Diwani served as a military adviser in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Israel launched airstrikes on the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus on Oct. 1, killing at least three people and injuring nine others, according to Syrian state media.
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