Live blog: Israel kills 52 people in Lebanon amid its genocide in Gaza
Israel's genocide in besieged Gaza — now in its 413th day — has left at least 44,056 Palestinians dead and wounded 104,268. In Lebanon, Israel has killed over 3,583 people and wounded more than 15,000 since October 2023.
A man carries the body of a child, who was killed by Israel at a UN-run school in the Nusseirat refugee camp, at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah on November 21, 2022. / Photo: AFP
Friday, November 22, 2024
Israel has killed at least 52 people in ongoing indiscriminate strikes on Lebanon's east and south, Beirut said.
"Israeli enemy strikes that targeted the Baalbek district" in east Lebanon's Bekaa Valley left "40 dead and 52 wounded", a Health Ministry statement said, listing tolls for 10 different locations.
Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) said a couple and their four children were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in the village of Maqneh, while another couple and their young daughter were among 11 people killed in an Israeli raid on nearby Nabha.
The ministry also reported "seven dead and 24 wounded" in "Israeli enemy strikes" on south Lebanon's Nabatiyeh district, and "five dead and 26 wounded" in strikes elsewhere in south Lebanon.
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2346 GMT — Biden calls ICC arrest warrant 'outrageous'
US President Joe Biden has called the International Criminal Court's move to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister "outrageous."
"The ICC issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous," said Biden in a statement.
"Let me be clear once again: whatever the ICC might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security."
2140 GMT — Israeli soldier killed in northern Gaza
An Israeli soldier has been killed during clashes with resistance fighters in northern Gaza.
In a statement, Israeli army said that Staff Sergeant Ron Epshtein, 19, served in the Tzabar Battalion of the Givati Brigade.
Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported that Epshtein was killed during fighting in Jabaliya after an artillery shell hit a building.
The newspaper noted that Epshtein was the 29th soldier killed since the Israeli army launched its invasion, part of wider genocide, of northern Gaza.
The latest casualty raised the officially reported death toll of the Israeli military since October 7, last year to 804.
2200 GMT — Rashida Tlaib welcomes ICC warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant
US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has welcomed the "long overdue" decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for genocide-accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In a statement, the Michigan Democrat said the warrants signal an end to the days of the Israeli government operating with impunity.
"Since this genocide began, the United States has provided more than $18 billion in weapons to the Israeli government," Tlaib said, adding the Biden administration "can no longer deny that those same US weapons have been used in countless war crimes," including the use of "starvation as a weapon of war."
"Our government must urgently end our complicity in these violations of human rights and international law," she said. "Netanyahu and Gallant must be arrested and brought before the ICC."
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