Palestinian Resistance Launch Major Attack on Israel: What Happened? – LIVE BLOG

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No respite as Israel intensifies deadly Gaza attacks

After the Iranian retaliation, the Israeli army has been ramping up attacks on the Gaza Strip.

There is a very high rate of deaths and casualties among civilians in the central, northern and central parts of the Strip.

Right now, ambulances are rushing to Bureij refugee camp in order to bring to the hospital victims after a residential house there was targeted. At least three Palestinians have been confirmed killed so far.

In the south, the city of Khan Younis has come under assault. There was a limited ground incursion that was accompanied by intense artillery shelling on residential homes. Medical sources confirmed to Al Jazeera that more than 50 Palestinians have been killed just in Khan Younis since yesterday evening.

In the central areas of Gaza, at least 25 Palestinians were killed, and in the north of the Strip, at least 30 Palestinians were confirmed killed.

A particularly bloody attack also took place at Nuseirat where a UN-run evacuation centre was targeted, with at least three confirmed killed and a number of wounded taken to hospital.

There have been attacks on evacuation centres, and even institutes that have been allocated to provide essential care for Palestinian orphans.

Overall, there’s been a very clear escalation by the Israeli military inside Gaza, which continues until now with no respite.

Two Israeli soldiers killed, 18 wounded in Hezbollah ambush

Israeli media are now reporting two Israeli soldiers have been killed and 18 others wounded in clashes with Hezbollah fighters this morning on the border with Lebanon near the town of Odaisseh.

These were really the first face-to-face clashes since Israel announced its ground offensive on Tuesday.

Israel knows a ground invasion against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon is a very different challenge than facing Hamas in Gaza. Hezbollah is a formidable enemy that has trained for this, and has battle-hardened soldiers who fought for many years in Syria.

‘Face-to-face fighting’ for the first time

When Israel announced a few days ago that it was going to conduct a ground incursion into Lebanon, it was calling it limited – there were key areas that the Israelis were bombing.

Odeissa was one of them, Kfar Kila and another one slightly further south – these were the points that the Israeli army was going to enter. So they were trying to clear Hezbollah fighters from those areas by those air attacks.

At dawn, the Israelis tried to come in. They got slightly further into the territory than perhaps they have been before, but that’s where they were ambushed and they quickly retreated.

This was the first face-to-face fighting and Israel lost it.

This is how Hezbollah are calling it – they’re calling it a victory for their forces.

That’s just one of the incidents.

In the last few hours there has been fighting in Maroun al-Ras, where Hezbollah says it is clashing with Israeli soldiers who are trying to enter that territory.
 
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Satellite images show damage to Israel’s F-35 jet fighter airbase after Iran missile strikes

Satellite images of an aircraft hangar at a key Israeli military airbase appear to show a large hole in the roof following a massive barrage of Iranian missiles on Tuesday night, the AP news agency reports.
Images of the Nevatim airbase in southern Israel show damage to the roof in a row of buildings near the main runway, and large pieces of debris can be seen around the building, the AP reports.
Nevatim is home to the Israeli air force’s most advanced aircraft, including the US-produced F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets. It is not clear from the satellite imagery whether any aircraft were in the hangar when it was struck.
Israel’s military did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the satellite images.
Nevatim also sustained light damage during an Iranian missile and drone attack in April.
This satellite image taken by Planet Labs PBC shows a damaged hangar at Israel's Nevatim Air Base, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
This satellite image taken by Planet Labs PBC shows a damaged hangar at Israel’s Nevatim airbase on Wednesday [Planet Labs PBC via AP Photo]
 
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‘Phase of unilateral self-restraint has ended,’ Iran tells US in indirect message: Official

An Iranian source has told Al Jazeera that Iran has sent a message to the United States, via Qatar, addressing the rising regional tensions.
In the message, Tehran told Washington that “the phase of unilateral self-restraint has ended.”
It also said any Israeli attack would meet an “unconventional response” that includes targeting Israeli infrastructure.
The indirect message also emphasised that Iran does not want a regional war, the official said.


WHO chief says 28 health workers killed by Israel in Lebanon in 24 hours

The director of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference on Thursday that 28 health workers were killed in Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours in Lebanon.

"Many (other) health workers are not reporting to duty and fled the areas where they work due to bombardments," Ghebreyesus said in an online press briefing. "This is severely limiting the provision of mass trauma management and continuity of health services."

He added that the WHO won't be able to deliver a large planned shipment of trauma and medical supplies to Lebanon on Friday due to flight restrictions.
 
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Investigating war crimes in Gaza I Al Jazeera Investigations

"This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict. The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear. The material reveals a range of illegal activities, from wanton destruction and looting to the demolition of entire neighbourhoods and murder. The film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip. And it exposes the complicity of Western governments – in particular the use of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as a base for British surveillance flights over Gaza. “The west cannot hide, they cannot claim ignorance. Nobody can say they didn’t know,” says Palestinian writer, Susan Abulhawa.This is “the first livestream genocide in history … If people are ignorant they are wilfully ignorant,” she says."

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Israeli attacks on Gaza ‘designed to cause maximum damage’

The Israeli army continues to conduct and carry out air strikes that it described as precise, limited to targeted operatives across the Gaza Strip.

But when we look on the ground, how these attacks are being carried out, they are designed to cause maximum damage.

They are not only causing further civilian casualties, but the scale and the extent of damage and destruction and casualties that they cause is very high, contrary to what Israeli statements describe these attacks and overnight attacks.

In the early morning of today’s attack, artillery fired on the eastern part of the Gaza Strip, as well as the western part of Nuseirat refugee camp, where the Israeli military attacks almost on hourly basis right now.

Every once in a while, we hear heavy artilleries, and according to witnesses and the Palestinian Civil Defence, who are prevented from getting anywhere near these bomb sites, they describe the horror of – many of the people are trapped inside the homes that are being targeted.

Many of these homes are already collapsed on people while they are still inside because they could not leave, whether here in Maghazi refugee camp or further western part of Gaza—of the Nuseirat refugee camp, the reports of many people are still trapped and buried under the rubble.

Twelve people have been confirmed killed, according to health officials here at Al-Aqsa Hospital and al-Awda Hospital. Five of them were in a residential home in northern part of the Strip, in Shati refugee camp, that has been bombed relentlessly since week one of this genocidal war.
 
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