Live blog: Israeli air strike on tents in North Gaza kills 16 Palestinians
Tel Aviv's year-long war on Gaza has killed at least 42,010 Palestinians. Separately, Israeli attacks across Lebanon since October 2023 have killed more than 2,141 people and uprooted another 1.2 million.
Relatives and loved ones of Palestinians, who died in Israeli attacks on Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps, mourn at al Aqsa Martyr's Hospital in Deir al Balah / Photo: AA
Thursday, October 10, 2024
2129 GMT — Israel has killed at least 16 people and wounded others in its air strikes near Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in the northern besieged Gaza.
Hossam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamala Adwan Hospital in Gaza, told Anadolu Agency that the victims were killed when an Israeli warplane targeted displaced people's tents outside the hospital.
Paramedics said the dead included women and children, noting that the bombardment left "charred remains of the deceased Palestinians."
Later, several Palestinians were killed and wounded in a second air strike targeting displaced people outside the entrance of the hospital, the Gaza Civil Defense reported.
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2104 GMT — Israel kills 10, including 5 medics, in southern Lebanon
Israel has killed at least ten people, including five medics, and wounded dozens of others in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese Civil Defense said in a statement that five of its workers were killed in the Israeli air strike on the Civil Defense center in Derdghaya, the town of the Tyre district in the southern governorate.
It said the victims were on duty at the centre and ready to respond to emergency calls.
Meanwhile, Lebanon's Ministry of Health reported that an Israeli air strike on the town of Wardaniyeh in the same district killed five people and wounded 12 others but did not specify the severity of their injuries.
The ministry added that "remains of other victims are being identified through DNA testing."
2016 GMT — UNRWA chief calls Gaza 'unrecognisable'
Besieged Gaza has been "unrecognisable", and there is no end in sight to the Israeli violence engulfing the Middle East, the head of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) said.
"One year after the catastrophic war on Gaza, no end is in sight to the brutal violence engulfing the region," Philippe Lazzarini said at a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Palestinian enclave.
"It has been a year of profound loss and suffering," he said. "We cannot claim ignorance to what is happening — nor can we afford to look away. That is why we repeat our calls for the Security Council, and member states, to take action."
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