Updates: New strikes on Beirut, Hezbollah says Israeli troops killed

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You can read more about Israel’s strikes on Beirut here.

You can read more on Iran’s warning of an “unconventional response” in case of a new Israeli attack here.

Finally, you can read about US President Joe Biden’s comments on a potential Israeli attack on Iran here.

We are going to bring our live coverage to an end soon. Here’s a summary of today’s main events:

• Israeli warplanes have carried out a series of air raids in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
• At least one Israeli strike hit outside the perimeter of Beirut’s international airport, a source in Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Works and Transport told the Reuters news agency.
• The Israeli army has issued an “urgent warning” for residents to evacuate a building in the Hadath neighbourhood of southern Beirut and the buildings adjacent to it.
• United States President Joe Biden has advised Israel to avoid striking Iranian civilian infrastructure, including oil facilities, a US official has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
• Our colleagues on the ground in the occupied West Bank say that 18 people have been killed in an Israeli attack on the Tulkarem refugee camp.

We have been reporting on regular Israeli attacks on the refugee camp.

Here is a bit more information:

It was established in the aftermath of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 that led to the creation of Israel.

Before Israel’s war on Gaza, it had been densely populated, home to 85,409 Palestine refugees registered with UNRWA.

The camp has been the target of countless Israeli raids and attacks since the start of the war. Here are just some:

• On October 18, the Grand Nuseirat Mosque was mostly destroyed.
• On March 17, 36 members of the Tabatibi family were killed in an Israeli air strike.
• On April 11, the Israeli army launched its first ground operation into the camp, attacking two mosques, a UN-run school and the Malaysia Quran School, killing at least four people.
• On April 12, Sami Shehadeh, a journalist with Turkish broadcaster TRT, had his foot amputated after being wounded in an Israeli attack there.
• On June 6, the mayor of Nuseirat, Iyad al-Maghari, was killed in an Israeli raid, and 40 people were killed in the Israeli air attack on a UN-run school in Nuseirat, according to the director of Gaza’s Government Media Office
• .On June 8, the Nuseirat massacre took place when Israeli forces killed at least 274 Palestinians to free four Israeli captives.
• On June 18, local media reported at least 17 deaths in the camp following a night of heavy Israeli bombardment.
• On July 14, Israeli forces killed at least 17 people after it struck the UN-run Abu Oraiban school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the camp.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that the Israeli military has blown up residential buildings northwest of the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported earlier that the military has been striking the western part of the camp on a near-hourly basis.

A number of countries have evacuated their citizens from Lebanon as Israel intensifies air strikes and has launched a ground incursion into the country. More than 1 million people have been forced to flee their homes in the last week.

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Our correspondent is in Amman, Jordan, because Al Jazeera has been banned from reporting in the occupied West Bank.

Even by the standards of the second Intifada, this was a very large, very deadly strike on a densely populated, impoverished refugee camp.

The targets of the attack are the leader of the Hamas military wing as well as the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad military wing, in addition to other fighters and people who live in the area, including an entire family.

The information is still coming in because hospitals have been overwhelmed.

An entire building was levelled, and the paramedics are still struggling to make sure that they’ve recovered all bodies and that there are no survivors under the rubble.

It is, for lack of a better word, overkill.

It’s just a reminder to all people in the occupied West Bank, to the fighters who are being pursued there, of Israel’s superior military power, its lethal, potent ability to exact not just death but massive destruction.

And this is happening while the world is paying attention elsewhere.

And in many ways, this kind of brings back what many have described, including the UN secretary-general, as a silent war on the occupied West Bank, while eyes are on Gaza.

Eyes are on Lebanon, on Iran, and even on Syria, sometimes, but a lot is happening in the occupied West Bank, including the strategic takeover of land there.

The United Nations Security Council has backed its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after Israel’s foreign minister said he was barring him from entering the country.

The 15-member council said in a statement that “any decision not to engage with the UN Secretary-General or the United Nations is counterproductive, especially in the context of escalating tensions in the Middle East”.

The statement did not name Israel. Such statements by the council are agreed upon by consensus.

The situation is still very challenging and difficult for the civilian populations across the Gaza Strip.

We’re talking about ongoing air attacks overnight. Just within the past couple of hours, the sound of heavy artillery in the central area.

In the northern part of the Strip, the Israeli military targeted a residential home.

An Israeli air attack also targeted a group of people when they were collecting wood to set up a fire and use it for cooking.

There’s no cooking gas or other necessities available to people.

In addition, an unexploded ordinance left behind by the Israeli military is reported to have killed three kids. One of them arrived at the hospital after losing a limb because of the intensity of the explosion that took place.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing officials at the Palestinian Water Authority, reports that over 85 percent of water and sewage facilities have either completely or partially ceased operations due to the destruction of vital infrastructure by Israeli forces.

Ziyad Fuqaha, the acting head of the water authority, said that the Israeli war on Gaza has affected all three water sources in the enclave, estimating that the production from these sources has decreased to approximately 30-35 percent of pre-war levels.

We know there have been discussions between the Iranians and the United States.

They say that this happens through intermediaries a lot of the time.

They wouldn’t discuss what’s being said in detail, but Matthew Miller suggests that the Iranians have been in touch to say they don’t want to see an escalation.

But the Americans have essentially say this is a nation that, 48 hours ago, fired more than 200 missiles towards Israel.

So now, talking about the de-escalation is not right.

They continue to support Israel in what it’s doing in its actions against Hezbollah. They say they will continue to support them. Some people would suggest that’s essentially writing the Israelis a blank check on their actions.

But what is clear is that Joe Biden is reluctant – and has said it himself – to see any sort of attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Instead, what is more likely to be targeted are perhaps oil refineries around the country.

A number of analysts have said that we are now closer to an all-out war in the region than we have been at any point since October 7 last year.

United States President Joe Biden has advised Israel to avoid striking Iranian civilian infrastructure, including oil facilities, a US official has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA).

The White House has already said it does not support an Israeli strike on nuclear facilities.

“We continue our discussions with the Israelis regarding their response to the Iranian strike and they have not yet asked for our assistance,” the US official told AJA.

“We urge Israel to avoid a comprehensive regional war in its response to the Iranian missile attack,” the source added.

The US does not believe Israel has decided yet how to respond to Iran, a US official told the Reuters news agency. “We understand that they are still determining what exactly they will do,” the source said.

The White House feels it is “appropriate” for Israel to keep attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon, even though it risks intensifying an “unpredictable” conflict, according to State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller.

Speaking at a news briefing, Miller said that while the US ultimately wants to see a ceasefire, Israel is right to keep targeting Hezbollah “at this point”.

Miller said it was unclear how long Israel’s operation in Lebanon go on and that he “doesn’t know what’s going to happen”.

“I dare say the Israelis probably don’t know what’s going to happen at this point,” Miller said. “It’s not to say that they don’t have a plan. It’s not to say that they don’t have objectives. It’s to say that conflicts are unpredictable.”