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9 Palestinians killed by Israel while transporting bodies from Bureij camp
Exclusive footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows the first moments after a group of young men were targeted by the Israeli army while trying to transport bodies from the Bureij refugee camp to the Nuseirat camp on an animal-drawn cart.
Local sources and witnesses told Al Jazeera the men were bombed when they reached Salah al-Din Street.
The attack killed all of the men, nine in total.
Up to 1,000 hepatitis cases registered weekly across Gaza: UNRWA
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says its health centres and shelters in the enclave have already recorded nearly 40,000 hepatitis cases since Israel’s bombardment on Gaza started, Al Jazeera reports.
“Desperate sanitary conditions facilitate the spread of diseases including Hepatitis A,” the UNRWA said on X.
Hezbollah member killed in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon
One more Hezbollah member was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in southern Lebanon, Anadolu Agency reports.
The Lebanese official news agency NNA said the Israeli airstrike took place in the southern Beit Lif town.
In a statement later, the Hezbollah group identified the fighter as Hasan Hussein Malik (Bader) which said he was killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” in reference to the Hezbollah’s fight in support of the Palestinian resistance facing the Israeli devastating onslaught in Gaza.
US Defense secretary denies inevitable Hezbollah-Israel clash
United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he does not believe in an inevitable fight between Israel and Hezbollah.
He said that Washington would like to see things resolved in a diplomatic fashion.
Austin made the comments at a joint media conference in Manila, the Philippines, following security talks between himself, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and their respective Philippine counterparts, Gilberto Teodoro and Enrique Manalo.
Palestinian delegation met Iran’s Supreme Leader
A Palestinian delegation led by Ziyad al-Nakhalah, the secretary-general of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, met Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The IRNA news agency, Iran reported that the delegates were in Tehran for the inauguration ceremony of President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Golan Heights attack: Israeli military unveils 'evidence'
The Israeli military’s Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said an Iranian-made Falaq rocket with a 53-kilogram (117-pound) warhead belonging to Hezbollah was used in the Golan Heights attack that landed in the town of over 11,000 inhabitants.
Israel released images of rocket fragments it said the military found, with visible lettering that matched pictures of Falaq rockets also provided by the military. The AP was unable to verify that the fragments were found on-site. No ordinance debris was visible when AP reporters visited Monday.
Palestinian homes reduced to rubble
Palestinian media reports that Israeli demolition vehicles are bringing down the houses of Palestinians in the town of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
War deals crushing blow to polio eradication: WHO
Margaret Harris, a spokesperson for the World Health Organisation (WHO), says wars have eliminated past efforts made to eradicate polio.
“We were on the point of eliminating it,” Harris told Al Jazeera. “But with conflicts breaking out around the world, all that work, all those millions of dollars … have been wasted because we have just gone backwards,” Harris said.
Cases of polio have declined by 99 percent worldwide since 1988, thanks to mass vaccination campaigns, and efforts continue to eradicate it everywhere.
“Most of polio, 75 percent, may well be asymptomatic – it’s like many viruses. The problem is that if you are one of those getting a severe form you could be paralysed for life or you can die,” she said.
Her comments came as a polio outbreak has been declared inside the Gaza Strip where more than nine months of war have destroyed sewage and water systems. On Friday, the WHO said it was sending about a million vaccines to the Strip .
However, Harris said, to get children vaccinated, “we need a ceasefire”.
Protestors storm military bases, disrupt operations
Israeli President Isaac Herzog denounced the members and supporters of the far-right Knesset for disrupting the Israeli military’s work by storming two bases.
In his statement, he said “We must not burden our fighters and commanders any longer. Let’s strengthen [the Israeli military] and its commanders and defend against all chants that only make our enemies happy.”
The president has directed the police officials to intervene and “act immediately to restore law and order”.
The Knesset members stormed the military bases following the arrests of several Israeli soldiers who were allegedly involved in the mistreatment of a Palestinian detainee at Israel’s Sde Teiman military prison.
Don't bomb Beirut: US leads push to rein in Israel's response
(Reuters) – The United States is leading a diplomatic dash to deter Israel from striking Lebanon's capital Beirut or major civil infrastructure in response to a deadly rocket attack on the Golan Heights, five people with knowledge of the drive said.
Washington is racing to avert a full-blown war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese movement Hezbollah after the attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan killed 12 youths at the weekend, according to the five people who include Lebanese and Iranian officials plus Middle Eastern and European diplomats.
Health crisis engulfs Gaza as diseases run rampant
United Nation agencies express concerns claiming that “communicable diseases and skin infections are spreading rapidly across Gaza.
The Ministry of Health, Gaza has stressed the need for “immediate intervention” after declaring a polio epidemic.
What we know about Hezbollah's weapons arsenal
BEIRUT (Lebanon) (AFP) – After a deadly strike on civilians in the annexed Golan Heights, Israel has threatened retaliation against Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, accusing it of perpetrating the attack with an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket -- part of its wide-ranging arsenal.
Hezbollah has traded near-daily cross-border fire with Israel in support of Hamas since the Palestinian militant group's October 7 attack on southern Israel triggered war in the Gaza Strip.
How might Israel retaliate against Hezbollah for Golan strike?
JERUSALEM (AFP) – For months, Israel has vowed to put an end to the frequent cross-border fire from Hezbollah which has led authorities to evacuate tens of thousands of citizens from areas near the border with Lebanon.
The situation has grown more tense this week following a rocket strike on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights which killed 12 children, raising fears of a further escalation in Israel's conflict with Hezbollah.
Lebanon braces for Israeli retaliation after deadly Golan Heights strike
BEIRUT (Lebanon) (AFP) – Lebanon braced on Monday for a possible large-scale counterstrike after Israel's security cabinet authorised a military response to the weekend rocket attack from Lebanon that killed 12, all teenagers and children.
Diplomats engaged in extensive last-minute diplomatic efforts to avert a full blown war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Netanyahu vows 'harsh' response to deadly Golan Heights strike blamed on Hezbollah
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's response to a rocket strike from Lebanon that killed 12 children in the occupied Golan Heights on Saturday will be "harsh", Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday after visiting the stricken town of Majdal Shams.
Israel aims to harm the Lebanon-based, Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, which it holds responsible for the attack, without causing an all-out war in the Middle East, two Israeli officials said Monday.
