WATCH: This is the moment Lebanese journalists came under missile fire
Journalists in southern Lebanon say they were targeted by Israeli strikes on Monday.
No fatalities have been reported.
The Al Jazeera network said a cameraman was injured.
Journalists in southern Lebanon say they were targeted by Israeli strikes on Monday.
No fatalities have been reported.
The Al Jazeera network said a cameraman was injured.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they found a Hamas tunnel entrance near a school in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.In this footage, an unidentified member of the IDF can be heard saying “we see here a fighting tunnel of Hamas, 15 meters deep, right outside a school,” as the camera shows a hole in the ground.The camera then pans upwards to show a building. A sign is later seen reading “Jabal Al Mukabbir Secondary Boys Schools.”Storyful confirmed the school is located in Beit Lahia with the design and color of the buildings seen in the video matching satellite imagery and photos of the school. Storyful has not independently verified whether the hole in the footage is a Hamas tunnel. Credit: IDF via Storyful
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When human rights activist Ziv Stahl was awakened to the booms of rocket fire on October 7, while staying at her sister’s home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, she did not for a moment anticipate the scale of the terrorist attack unfolding around her. Nor did she imagine the horror she would feel when she later called the police, who “basically told me no one is coming.”
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Israel has moved ground forces into the south of Gaza in its war on Hamas, witnesses said Monday, despite global concern over mounting civilian deaths and fears the conflict will spread elsewhere in the Middle East.Dozens of Israeli tanks as well as armoured personnel carriers and bulldozers entered the south of the territory near the city of Khan Yunis, which is crowded with internally displaced Palestinians, witnesses told AFP.Amin Abu Hawli, 59, said the Israeli vehicles were "two kilometres (1.2 miles) inside" Gaza in the village of al-Qarara, while Moaz Mohammed, 34, said Israeli tanks were rolling down the strip's main north-south highway, the Salah al-Din road.Weeks after Israel sent ground forces and tanks into northern Gaza, the army has been air-dropping leaflets in the besieged territory's south, especially around Khan Yunis, telling Palestinians there to flee to other areas.The army "continues to expand its ground operation against main Hamas fronts in the Gaza Strip," Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said Sunday. "Wherever there is a Hamas stronghold, the IDF operates."Full-scale fighting resumed Friday after the collapse of a week-long truce brokered by Qatar, the United States and Egypt, during which Israel and Hamas had exchanged scores of hostages and prisoners.Air strikes have since intensified in Gaza's south, said James Elder, a spokesman for the United Nations children's agency UNICEF."Despite what has been assured, attacks in the south of Gaza are every bit as vicious as what the north endured," he posted Monday on X, formerly Twitter."Somehow, it's getting worse for children and mothers."Israel has vowed to crush Hamas in retaliation for the Islamist militant group's October 7 attacks that killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and saw 240 hostages taken, according to Israeli authorities.Israel's military said Sunday it had carried out around 10,000 air strikes in total, while Gaza militants had resumed rocket salvos into Israel, most of which had been intercepted.The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 15,500 people have been killed in Gaza, about 70 percent of them women and children -- a death toll that has sparked global alarm and mass demonstrations.- 'No safe place' -"There is no safe place in Gaza," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said as a UN agency estimated around 1.8 million people in Gaza, roughly 75 percent of the population, had been displaced.The Israeli army said Monday three more soldiers had been killed in fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, raising the number of troop deaths there to 75.The fatalities brought the number of Israeli defence personnel killed since October 7 -- among them those killed in the Hamas attacks themselves and including soldiers, reservists, kibbutz guards and others -- to 401.Under the temporary truce that expired Friday, 80 Israeli hostages were freed, in exchange for the release of 240 Palestinians held in Israeli jails. More than two dozen Thai and other captives were also released from Gaza.With at least 137 hostages still held in Gaza, according to the Israeli military, Hamas has ruled out more releases until a permanent ceasefire is agreed.More air strikes have rained down on northern Gaza where the Hamas-run government and the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said the entrance of the Kamal Adwan hospital was hit late Sunday.Several people were killed in the strike, Wafa said, while Hamas accused Israel on Telegram of a "grave violation" of humanitarian law. Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military did not immediately comment.Israel says Hamas uses hospitals and other civilian infrastructure for military purposes, an accusation the militant group denies.Nine-year-old Huda, who was wounded in the head, arrived at the Deir al-Balah hospital with a Red Cross convoy bringing casualties from northern Gaza."She doesn't answer me any more," said her bereaved father Abdelkarim Abu Warda.- 'Too many innocents killed' -Israel's ally the United States has intensified calls for the protection of Gaza's civilians, with Vice President Kamala Harris saying that "too many innocent Palestinians have been killed".A White House official said Sunday the United States believes Israel is "making an effort" to minimise civilian casualties in Gaza.Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said those killed "would still be alive" had Hamas not carried out the October 7 attacks.Israel said Monday it was not seeking to force Palestinian civilians to permanently leave their homes, even as it acknowledged conditions in Gaza were "tough".Any suggestion of Palestinian dispersal is highly contentious in the Arab world as the war that led to Israel's creation 75 years ago gave rise to the exodus or forced displacement of 760,000 Palestinians.Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus said Monday: "We are not trying to displace anyone, we are not trying to move anybody from anywhere permanently."We have asked civilians to evacuate the battlefield and we have provided a designated humanitarian zone inside the Gaza Strip," he said, referring to a tiny coastal area of the territory named Al-Mawasi.With fears of a wider regional conflagration rising, a US destroyer shot down multiple drones over the Red Sea while assisting commercial ships on Sunday, according to the US Central Command.Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels -- who said they targeted two of the ships -- launched a series of drones and missiles towards Israel in recent weeks and seized a cargo vessel last month.In Iraq, an air attack killed at least five pro-Iranian militants on Sunday, according to Iraqi security sources, a day after Baghdad warned Washington against "attacks" on its territory.Fighting also flared on Israel's northern border with Lebanon.The Israeli army said it had launched artillery strikes in response to cross-border fire, and its fighter jets hit targets linked to Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.The Israel-occupied West Bank has also seen a surge in violence since October.The Palestinian Authority's health ministry said two Palestinians had been shot dead in an Israeli raid on the northern West Bank town of Qalqilya, adding that Israeli forces kept the two bodies.bur-fz/dr
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The East African Community regional force began its withdrawal from the strife-torn east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday after Kinshasa deemed it ineffective and refused to renew its mandate.The seven-nation EAC first deployed troops in the violence-plagued region in November 2022, at the invitation of the DRC authorities, to free areas taken by the resurgent M23 rebel group.But the future of the deployment was thrown into doubt after President Felix Tshisekedi and local residents accused the force of cohabiting with the rebels rather than forcing them to lay down arms.On Sunday morning, two contingents of around 100 Kenyan soldiers flew out of the airport in Goma, capital of the eastern region of North Kivu.There were no Congolese officials present on the tarmac when the planes left at around 05:00 am (0300 GMT) and 10:30 am respectively, and as of midday there was no statement from the authorities.Late last month, the EAC said the DRC, which is a member of the bloc, had decided not to renew the force's mandate beyond December 8.A spokesman for the EAC force present on Sunday said the two military contingents were flying to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, but gave no details as to the next stages in the withdrawal of the force, which also comprises soldiers from Burundi, South Sudan and Uganda. "We are happy to see the EAC leave," a taxi-scooter driver in Goma, Emmanuel Agaye, told AFP."We know they came to help us fight. But they didn't fight."- Accusations of collusion -"The EAC has no place here," added Goma resident Innocent Niyibizi. "Imagine our surprise when the M23 rebels overtook the EAC positions and seized new areas," he said.Rebels from M23 (the Movement of 23 March) re-emerged in North Kivu in late 2021, seizing large swathes of the province with backing, sources say, from neighbouring Rwanda, another EAC member.Kenya soldiers began arriving in Goma a year later, at the invitation of the DRC authorities. All but the Burundian contingents of the East African force (EAC-RF) were later accused by Kinshasha and local of colluding with the rebels.Fighting continues between M23 and the DRC army, supported by militia who call themselves "patriots".M23 leader Bertrand Bisimwa reacted to the Kenyan troop withdrawal on X, formerly Twitter, saying his armed group "does not intend to let the Kinshasa regime's military coalition invade the areas it (M23) ceded to the EAC-RF".Numerous armed groups and other militias have been active for three decades in the east of the DRC, a legacy of the regional wars that erupted during the 1990s and 2000s.In addition to the EAC force, a United Nations peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, has been present in the country since 1999.- December elections -But MONUSCO has also been accused of ineffectiveness and Kinshasa has demanded it start next month to make an "orderly" but "accelerated" departure.The UN force comprises around 14,000 peacekeepers, deployed almost exclusively in the east of the country.The DRC, a vast country of around 100 million inhabitants, is scheduled to hold a general election on December 20. President Tshisekedi, in power since 2019, is standing for a second five-year term.But due to the fighting with M23, the elections will not take place in two areas of North Kivu.Tshisekedi is hoping to replace the EAC soldiers with security forces from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), of which the DRC is also a member.However, the creation of a SADC force, which has been mooted since May, has so far failed to materialise.Since late 2022, around 1,000 European former soldiers -- presented by Kinshasa as "instructors" and now working for two private companies -- have also been operating in North Kivu.According to the DRC authorities, the national army is building up strength so it can defend the country by itself from "aggression" by neighbouring states, particularly Rwanda.ah-at/cpy/gil/js
Police in Pakistan arrested at least 17 suspects in the weekend bus shooting that left 10 people dead and 25 others wounded, authorities said Monday. Security forces raided several areas in the northern Gilgit Baltistan region — where the attack took place — and arrested the men who were currently being questioned, local police chief Shah Wali said. The bus was carrying passengers from Gilgit to the city of Rawalpindi when it was shot at, causing the driver to lose control and crash into a truck, which in turn caught fire.
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