Live blog: Israel bombs Gaza home, leaving 20 Palestinians dead or missing

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

2300 GMT — Israeli warplanes have bombed the home of Joudeh family in old Gaza Street in Jabalia al-Balad, north of Gaza, leaving 20 Palestinians dead or missing, according to witnesses and local reports.

More details area awaited.

Meanwhile, Gaza-based journalist Hossam Shabat, who has been named by Israeli military in a hit-list, was wounded in an Israeli strike, Shabat said in a post on X.

"Tonight, I was deliberately targeted by Israeli forces. After receiving word of a nearby bombing, I jumped into my car to report. Upon arriving at the house packed with terrified people, I could hear their desperate screams for help from the second floor," he wrote.

"The moment I stepped inside, the house was bombed again, and dismembered body parts of the wounded flew around me. Rubble crashed down on me and my colleagues. One first responder was killed and while my colleague and I were injured, many others did not survive."

2300 GMT — Hezbollah fires 'guided missiles' at Israeli troops

Hezbollah has said it fired guided missiles at invading Israeli soldiers as they attempted to evacuate wounded and dead personnel in southern Lebanon.

In a statement, the Lebanese group said it wounded Israeli soldiers in a guided missile attack in the border town of Markaba before firing a second at an infantry unit that came to remove the wounded.

Hezbollah said it then targeted with another guided missile "a third infantry unit" that came to "try to recover the dead and wounded".

2300 GMT — US announces talks with Israel over civilian casualties

Senior US and Israeli officials will meet in early December to address "American concerns" over harm to Palestinian civilians caused by Israel in Gaza, the State Department said, a bid that comes after almost 411 days of Israeli genocide in the besieged enclave.

The United States has regularly voiced concerns to key ally Israel over American-supplied weapons being used in strikes that have killed civilians in Gaza, but it has also continued to supply weapons to Netanyahu regime which has killed tens of thousands and uprooted millions in the tiny enclave.

Critics say US is fully complicit in Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

The State Department has also opened several investigations into Israeli strikes using US-supplied weapons that killed Gaza civilians. But no conclusions have been made public, and US military assistance has continued to flow.

2000 GMT — 'Targeting' of Gaza children by Israeli drones like 'warped video game'

A lawmaker from Britain’s ruling Labour Party has said evidence shown by a retired surgeon, who has been to war zones including Gaza, suggests Israeli troops were targeting Palestinian children by drones was like a "warped video game."

Speaking at the Humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories debate at the Westminster Hall on Tuesday, Labour lawmaker Patricia Ferguson referenced a parliamentary evidence given by retired vascular surgeon Prof. Nizam Mamode, who has returned back to the UK from Gaza and explained how the Palestinian children were deliberately targeted by Israel.

Ferguson told the hall the details of her encounter with the evidence: "I thought I had seen and heard it all, the death, the disease and sheer brutality reported on our TV screens night, after night. But then I went to Professor Mamode's presentation. He spoke calmly and slowly about his experiences in Palestine, using slides and a video diary.

"He demonstrated the symmetrical puncture wounds on a dead child’s body. Wounds in the region of the body's major arteries that were too precise to have been the work of a human sniper. They were the work of drones. Targeted at innocent civilians, and in this case, a child."

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