Updates: Israel pounds Lebanon and Gaza; Hezbollah hits military bases

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We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of the day’s major developments:

• At least 43 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn.
• An Israeli strike on a school where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp has killed 10 people and wounded at least 20 others.
• A Geneva-based human rights organisation says it has documented dozens of premeditated murders and field executions by Israeli forces in northern Gaza.
• Hezbollah says it bombed several military bases in Haifa and the Carmel region.
• Israeli troops arrested 12 people from the occupied West Bank, including former prisoners.
• Israeli police say two flares were fired at Netanyahu’s house earlier this evening and fell in the garden. The police said Netanyahu and his wife were not in the house when the incident took place.

In Beit Furik near Nablus, dozens of masked settlers invaded the village, setting fire to everything in sight.

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Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based human rights organisation, says it has documented dozens of premeditated murders and field executions in northern Gaza.

As Israeli forces continue to lay siege to the northern part of the enclave for 43 days now, the monitor said it found that among the many crimes committed by Israeli forces, including mass displacement and targeting shelters, it has documented cases of direct killing and extrajudicial executions “without any justification”.

On Wednesday, the monitor documented the killing of Khaled Mustafa Ismail al-Shafei, 58, and his eldest son Ibrahim, 21, who was shot by the Israeli army inside their home in front of their family in the town of Beit Lahiya.

The monitor said that the family members were still suffering from severe nervous shock about the attack, and the bodies of the man and his son remained at the house as neither the family nor rescue crews had been able to reach them.

Euro-Med urged the UN and the international community to intervene and stop the “genocide” in Gaza and the siege in the north.

The Israeli attack on al-Shifa Hospital a year ago has had a major impact on Gaza’s healthcare capacity, says physician Mads Gilbert, who has worked in Gaza over the last 20 years, including at al-Shifa Hospital.

Dr Gilbert, who was denied access to Gaza by the Isreali army after October 7 last year, has told Al Jazeera from Tromso, Norway, that “by attacking healthcare [facilities] and ambulances, killing healthcare workers and diminishing capacity, and producing hundreds of thousands of people in need through the bombing and all the diseases [present] imposed by the siege, they are actually undermining the will of resistance in the people”.

Still, Palestinians have reopened the emergency department, three operating rooms and have about 40 doctors and 70 nurses working at al-Shifa, he said, adding that “this willingness to restore function is an amazing, impressive capacity from our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza”.

Gilbert said the only medical solution is for an immediate, lasting ceasefire to be implemented, an immediate opening of Gaza and an end to the siege.

“[It is] costing thousands of lives that we do not report because they are dying from infections, from maltreated or untreated diabetes, from cancer, who cannot be treated because the healthcare system is broken down systematically by Israeli occupation forces.”

It has been a year since Israeli forces laid siege to Gaza’s largest hospital and destroyed it.

Denounced as “barbaric” by doctors, multiple investigations have debunked Israeli claims that it was a Hamas command centre.

Israel has not been able to provide evidence to back those claims either.

But the iconic al-Shifa Hospital is far from forgotten, as medical workers all over the world continue to rally for those who destroyed it to face justice.

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Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have bombed a house in the Bureij refugee camp, resulting in several injuries.

Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 43 Palestinians since dawn.

At least five people were injured after rockets were launched from southern Lebanon towards Haifa in northern Israel, the Israeli national ambulance service (MDA) said.

Earlier, we reported Hezbollah announcing that it bombed several military bases in Haifa and the Carmel region this evening.

German police have detained several demonstrators during a pro-Palestinian protest in Berlin.

More than 1,000 people gathered in the German capital to express solidarity with Palestinians and protest Israel’s continuing attacks on Gaza.

Carrying Palestinian flags, the crowd marched with banners reading, “This is an anti-colonial struggle for freedom” and “Hands off Gaza and Lebanon”.

A pro-Israel group gathered along the marching route and tried to provoke the marchers by unfurling Israeli flags, but police stepped in to prevent any confrontations.

The charging of CIA official Asif Rahman for allegedly leaking US intelligence of Israeli preparations for retaliatory strikes on Iran in October has brought into open view the shadow war of espionage and counterespionage that has raged between actors locked in a regional conflict for decades.

The Iran-based Telegram channel Rahman is accused of leaking to disavows any connection with Iran’s government, but that the affair has embarrassed a US administration reeling from an earlier conviction of another of its officers, Jack Teixeira, for leaking Pentagon papers is undeniable.

The Rahman leak provides a glimpse into the murky interplay of Iranian, Israeli and US spy agencies that have helped shape the current conflict and, almost as importantly, our perception of it.

Read the full story here.

The Khan Younis municipality in southern Gaza has announced it ran out of fuel to keep water and sewage facilities working.

Basic services such as sanitation, waste collection, and transport are no longer in service, which will result in the spread of health hazards and disease among residents, Palestinian media quoted the municipality as saying.

The inability to operate water wells and desalination plants deprives more than 1.2 million residents of their basic rights to obtain clean water for drinking and other uses, it said.

The UN has released a report on the first nine months of Israel’s war on Gaza where it accuses Israel of genocide by “using starvation as a method of war and inflicting collective punishment on the Palestinian population”.

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Israeli police said that two flares fired at Netanyahu’s house earlier this evening fell in the garden.

The police said Netanyahu and his wife were not in the house when the incident took place.

An investigation is continuing, it said, adding that “this development is considered a dangerous escalation”.

Hezbollah says it bombed several military bases in Haifa and the Carmel region this evening.

This includes the Haifa Technical, Haifa Naval, Stella Maris and Tira Carmel bases, the group said in a statement, adding that it also targeted for the first time the Nesher base, “which includes a gas station southeast of Haifa”.

Earlier, we reported the Israeli army saying two people were injured when a synagogue was hit in Haifa.

What does it mean to be hungry for months?

In Gaza, where more than 43,000 of us have been killed by Israel’s bombardment and ground invasions – and many more thousands are lost, feared dead, under the rubble – we have been punished with hunger now for more than a year.

In war, survival becomes the only focus, and hunger is a constant reminder of that. We have been forced to be hungry – we did not choose this.

We’re struggling to survive under Israeli bombardment, but we’re failing.

Read more here.

An Israeli drone attack has killed another journalist in Gaza, Wafa news agency reports.

Local sources told the agency that Mohammed Saleh al-Sharif was wounded by a drone in Jabalia refugee camp.

He was left “bleeding for more than two hours before succumbing to his injuries”, the report added.

Israeli forces have been preventing civil defence and emergency medical teams from operating in northern Gaza for more than 25 days.

According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, 174 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of Israel’s war on the Strip on October 7, 2023.

Israel’s medical emergency services said that rockets fired from Lebanon towards the Carmel area in the northern city of Haifa.

Paramedics said they took five people to hospital with mild injuries.

The Israeli military said 10 rockets were identified crossing from Lebanon.

The Lebanese-armed group says it hit an Israeli tank in southern Lebanon near a village approximately five kilometres (three miles) from the border with Israel.

Hezbollah fighters targeted “a Merkava tank on the eastern outskirts of the village of Shamaa with a guided missile, causing it to catch fire”, it said in a statement.