Live blog: Death toll from Israeli strikes on Lebanon's Baalbek rises to 57

Saturday, November 2, 2024

0636 GMT — The death toll from Israeli air strikes on Lebanon's eastern Baalbek district rises to 57, the official news agency has reported.

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0703 GMT — Israel kills 8 Palestinians in northern and central Gaza

At least eight Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in Israeli attacks targeting northern and central Gaza.

Medical sources told Anadolu that three Palestinians were killed and several others were injured when Israeli forces shelled the Saftawi neighbourhood in northern Gaza City.

Separately, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported that Israeli air strikes also hit a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing five people and injuring several others.

0634 GMT — Hezbollah says launched rockets at an intelligence base near Tel Aviv

Lebanon's Hezbollah group has said it had launched rockets at an Israeli intelligence base near Tel Aviv in the early hours of Saturday.

At 00:30 GMT the group "fired a salvo of rockets at the Glilot base of the 8200 military intelligence unit in the suburbs of Tel Aviv" Hezbollah said in a statement.

0205 GMT — At least 19 Israelis injured as rocket from Lebanon strikes central Israel

At least 19 Israelis were injured, including four in moderate condition, after a rocket launched from Lebanon hit a building in the Israeli town of Tira, according to first responders.

The Israeli army reported that sirens sounded in the Sharon and Dan regions as three rockets fired from Lebanon entered Israeli airspace. While interception attempts were made, one of the rockets breached defences and caused injuries on impact.

The attack came as Israel escalated its air campaign in Lebanon since September against what it claims are Hezbollah targets in an escalation from year-long cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of Israel’s brutal offensive on Gaza.

0024 GMT — Israeli military says sirens sound in central Israel

The Israeli military has said that sirens sound in a number of areas in central Israel following launches that crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory.

2128 GMT — Palestine's UN envoy hopes Geneva conference on Middle East conflict will take place 'as soon as possible'

Palestine's envoy to the UN in New York said that he hopes a Geneva conference on the Middle East conflict will take place "as soon as possible."

Riyad Mansour's remarks came after Swiss President Viola Amherd said that a conference on the conflict would be organised in Geneva in the coming months.

"I know that our delegation here in Geneva, with the government of Switzerland, they are conducting the dates and the details of the convening of this conference," Mansour said at a meeting in Geneva with the Association of the Accredited Correspondents to the United Nations (ACANU).

Noting the Fourth Geneva Convention, he said: "When there are crimes of the magnitude of what is really happening in the Gaza Strip and also in the West Bank — with violence from the settlers against the civilian population, the Palestinians — then there should be all countries, members of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and international humanitarian law, to ensure respect at all times of the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention."

2127 GMT — Hospital in northern Gaza operates with limited capabilities, single surgeon

Only hospital in northern Gaza is operating with limited health capabilities and with one surgeon in light of the deadly Israeli incursion for nearly one month.

"The Al-Awda Hospital is the only hospital in northern Gaza that has a doctor specialised in general surgery at times many injured people who require urgent medical interventions," the hospital's director, Mohammed Salha, told Anadolu Agency.

Amid low and limited medical capabilities, Salha noted that "over 70 percent of the injured cases in the hospital require urgent surgery interventions."

2008 GMT — Israel 'not serious' about Gaza ceasefire: Hamas

Palestinian resistance group Hamas said that Israel does not take Gaza ceasefire negotiations seriously.

Speaking to Al-Aqsa TV channel, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said Israel does not offer any genuine proposals and "is definitively not serious in the (ceasefire) negotiations."

"Any proposal presented to us (Hamas) that meets our people's demands, ends their suffering, and completely halts the Israeli aggression, not temporarily, we will proceed with it without hesitation," Hamdan said.

2002 GMT — Palestinian, US officials discuss efforts to stop Israeli war in northern Gaza

A senior official of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and a US official discussed efforts to stop the ongoing Israeli war in northern Gaza.

Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary of the Executive Committee of the PLO, met US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf in the central West Bank, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.

The officials emphasised the urgent need to end the war in Gaza, and Israeli recent crimes and massacres in the region.

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