Israel kills 50 Gazans and bombs Beirut suburbs

At least 47 Gazansincluding a baby who is only 40 days old, died late yesterday in repeated Israeli attacks on the city of Deir al Balahthe Nuseirat refugee camp and the city of Al Zawaida, all in central Gaza.

In Nuseirat alone, at least 21 people died, including five children and seven women, medical sources informed EFE, after the Israeli air forces attacked several homes, including those with displaced people.

According to the Palestinian Wafa agency, after the bombings, and after witnesses rushed to help those affected, The Israeli Army attacked again, causing new victims. Search and rescue operations to locate missing people under the rubble continue.

Medical sources reported that the bodies of The deceased were transferred to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.in Deir al Balah, where at least two other displaced people died in the bombing of a house in the Al Hadba neighborhood, according to local sources.

For its part, the Israeli Army claimed this Friday to have attacked more than 200 Hamas targets in Gaza and Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon yesterday from the air, including command and control centers, launchers and other infrastructure.

In central Gaza, a military statement reported the elimination of “several armed terrorists operating in the area”without giving more details and despite the death of children, according to medical sources.

In the northern area of ​​Yabalia, where a military siege persists and the entry of food has been practically non-existent for almost a month, troops eliminated dozens of militiamen from the air and through “selective raids on military structures,” says the same text.

According to Palestinian sources, Last night Israel bombed a four-story building in the Jabalia camp which sheltered more than 120 people, but which remains inaccessible, due to the military siege, for rescue teams.

Only in besieged northern Gaza – which also encompasses Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun – At least 75 people died yesterday and more than a thousand since the beginning of this new land military offensive. at the beginning of October. Since October 2023, there have already been more than 43,200 dead, most of them women and children, and more than 101,600 injured

Israel attacks Beirut for the first time in a week

Israeli forces bombed the southern suburbs of Beirut early this Fridayits first attack on the country’s capital in almost a week, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported.

According to this media, several Israeli fighters carried out “ten intense shelling” in southern Beirut at nightspecifically in the areas of Ghobeiry, Kafaat and the Sayyid Hadi Highway, as well as in the vicinity of the Al-Mujtaba complex and the old capital airport road.

“The bombings caused Mass destruction in target areasdestroying dozens of buildings and setting fire to several places,” said the NNA.

Previously, the Arabic spokesman for the Israeli Army, Avichay Adraeewarned through his official X account that his country’s forces would bomb several areas south of Beirut, where targets associated with the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah were allegedly located.

The message, accompanied by images of the buildings targeted by the attack, He urged residents of these areas to “evacuate” the area “immediately.”

At least 45 Lebanese have been killed and 110 injured in the last 24 hours as a result of Israeli attacks on Lebanon, which have already caused 2,865 fatalities for a year, most since last September 23, when Israel began a massive bombing campaign.

According to a statement from the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health released on Thursday and cited by several national media, that day there were 68 air strikes by Israel against different areas of the countryespecially against the Southern region and Nabatiye, in the south of the country, and against Baalbek (east).

“During the last 24 hours, 68 airstrikes were recorded in various areas of Lebanon, most of them in Sur, Nabatiye and Baalbek, bringing the total number of attacks since the beginning of the aggression to 11,647 attacks,” noted the ministry.

A month of invasion in Lebanon

After a month of invasion, Israeli troops have made limited progress and have advanced a maximum of 7 kilometers in southern Lebanon, where the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah is trying to contain a ground operation without a declared objective and that has powerful air cover.

Clashes in the area broke out on October 8, 2023, but violence reached levels unprecedented in decades starting on September 23 of this year, when The Israeli Army launched its massive bombing campaign against Lebanon.

From the air, Israel has dealt the hardest blows to Iran’s allied formation since its founding in 1982 with the annihilation of most of its leadership, including its leader, Hasan Nasrallahand hundreds of his combatants.

The ground incursion began to resonate in mid-September and soon after, with both sides claiming to be prepared for a ground confrontation, Israel began a series of “limited” incursions into Lebanese territory on October 1.

The UN blue helmets, currently commanded by Spain, have repeatedly denounced that Israel has reached and even surpassed and damaged its facilitieswhile having been warning for months that “the security situation is extremely difficult.” They have also denounced the impact of Hezbollah projectiles.

UNIFIL says it has observed from the beginning of the invasion Clashes in several locations along the borderall of them without neighbors, who have fled further north before the deployment of four brigades of the Israeli Army.

The objective of this invasion, beyond “destroying the capabilities” of Hezbollah, has not been explicitly stated. Experts warn that The ‘modus operandi’ is the same as in the Gaza Strip: expel population, occupy territory and destroy all types of infrastructure.

Iran will respond to the October 23 attack

The Iranian authorities have raised the tone against Israel in recent days and assure that They will respond with “fierce” to the Israeli attack on Saturday against military objectives that caused five deaths.

While early reactions to the Israeli missile attack had a cautious tone, in recent days this has changed and is now From Tehran it is insisted that it is a certainty that it will respond to the Jewish State.

“The response against the aggression of the Zionist regime is certain,” said Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, General Ali Fadaviin statements to Lebanese television and reported this Friday by Iranian media.

“Are capable of destroying everything the Zionists possess with a single operation,” continued the high command of the elite military body whose mission is to safeguard the Islamic Revolution and controls the ballistic missile program.

For his part, the commander in chief of the Revolutionary Guard, General Hosein Salamistated that Tel Aviv has made “another mistake and they will suffer for it.”

At the same time, the head of the office of the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khameneiasserted that his country plans to give “a fierce and forceful response” to Israel’s “desperate action,” indicated the Tasnim agency.