UNICEF condemns Israel’s “indiscriminate strikes on the Gaza Strip”, mentioning that more than 50 children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Jabalia in northern Gaza in the past 48 hours alone, reports Al Jazeera.
Israeli forces dropped a stun grenade on a polio vaccination centre in Gaza City, wounding at least four children, despite agreeing to a humanitarian pause for a long-delayed inoculation campaign, according to the WHO.
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati called for an investigation into Israel’s kidnapping of a citizen in the north of the country. An Israeli military official says naval forces captured a senior member of Hezbollah in the Lebanese town of Batroun.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,314 Palestinians and wounded 102,019 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 were taken captive.
In Lebanon, at least 2,968 people have been killed and 13,319 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began, the Lebanese Health Ministry says.
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