AL Jazeera :
At least 55 people have been killed and 192 others injured across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
At least 25 towns and villages in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley came under heavy Israeli air attacks on Friday, killing dozens of people, according to local authorities.
The third phase of a postponed mass polio vaccination drive is scheduled to restart in Gaza, aid groups say, after the campaign stalled amid Israeli attacks and mass displacement of north Gaza’s population, which has been under military siege for almost one month.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,314 Palestinians and wounded 102,019 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 were taken captive.
In Lebanon, at least 2,897 people have been killed and 13,150 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began, with 30 people killed across the country in the past 24 hours, the Lebanese Health Ministry says.
One person has now been confirmed killed in the Israeli attack on Beirut’s southern suburb we earlier reported on.
At least 15 people have also been wounded, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.
Lebanon’s National News Agency said the raid occurred near Karout Mall and was not preceded by an Israeli evacuation warning.
A young Palestinian man has been injured by Israeli gunfire during a raid by Israeli forces in the town of Beit Fajjar, located south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.
Local sources reported that Israeli troops stormed the town, and used stun grenades, bombs, tear gas, and live ammunition against residents.
The young man sustained a gunshot wound to the thigh during the incursion. Hezbollah claims to have hit four Israeli army bases, one military company.
The Lebanese armed group says its drones attacked Israel’s Ramat David airbase and airport in Haifa, as well as the Glilot base of the military intelligence unit 8200 in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.
Hezbollah also claimed to have hit the Shraga base north of the occupied city of Acre and the Misgav base northeast of the city of Haifa, as well as the Alta military industries company, also northeast of Haifa.