Israel-Hamas – stay: Hezbollah says Israel will ‘pay price’ after strike kills three as IDF encircle Gaza City

An Israeli strike on a automotive in south Lebanon killed three kids and their grandmother on Sunday, a Hezbollah lawmaker from the world has mentioned, calling the attack a “harmful improvement” for which Israel would pay a worth.

Lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah mentioned the mom of the three kids – women aged between 8 and 14 – was wounded within the attack which struck the automotive because it drove between the villages of Aynata and Aitaroun close to the Israeli border.

“The enemy can pay the value for its crimes towards civilians,” Fadlallah informed Reuters in an announcement.

Asked about earlier studies from safety sources in Lebanon that an Israeli strike had killed three folks in a automotive close to Aynata, an Israeli military spokesperson mentioned the military could be a releasing an announcement afterward Sunday a couple of strike in Lebanon.

Hezbollah mentioned it fired a number of grad rockets on the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on Sunday in retaliation for an Israeli strike in South Lebanon that it mentioned had killed a girl and three kids.

In an announcement, the Lebanese militant faction mentioned its attack got here in response to Israel‘s “heinous and brutal crime”.

US secretary of state Anthony Blinken has met with officials from the United Nations body for Palestinian refugees.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again ruled out a ceasefire until Hamas releases all of its hostages.

“There will be no ceasefire without the return of our hostages, we say this to both our enemies and our friends,” told air and ground crews at the Ramon air force base in southern Israel on Sunday

“We will continue until we beat them”, he added.

The Israeli military on Sunday said it has exposed a network of Hamas tunnels, command centres and rocket launchers beneath and adjacent to hospitals in northern Gaza.

“Hamas systematically exploits hospitals as part of its war machine,” Israel’s chief navy spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari informed reporters.

The Islamist group Hamas denies doing so and has accused Israel of spreading lies.

During the media briefing, Hagari offered movies, pictures and audio recordings that he mentioned demonstrated Hamas’s technique of utilizing hospitals as cowl and stopping civilians from leaving fight zones.

He additionally mentioned that over 800 rockets fired from Gaza at Israel in the course of the battle fell brief and landed contained in the enclave, killing many Palestinians.

Iran-backed Hamas manufactures a few of its rockets domestically and in addition receives rockets from overseas. It was not attainable to confirm Hagari’s statements Israel has for weeks targeted consideration on Gaza’s important hospital, al-Shifa, accusing Hamas of utilizing it as a protect for underground operational centres.

A far-right Israeli minister who steered “nuking” Gaza has been suspended indefinitely.

Amichai Eliyahu, a member of the Otzma Yehud get together who serves as heritage minister, informed a neighborhood radio station that dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza was “one of the possibilities” being thought-about by the federal government.

He added that those that increase the Palestinian or Hamas flag “shouldn’t continue living on the face of the earth”, and that “there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians in Gaza”.

“Amichai Eliyahu’s words are detached from reality,” Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned in an announcement on social media, confirming the suspension.

Turkish police used tear fuel and water cannon as tons of of individuals at a pro-Palestinian rally on Sunday tried to storm an air base that homes US troops, hours earlier than US secretary of state Antony Blinken was due in Ankara for talks on Gaza.

Turkey, which has stepped up its criticism of Israel because the humanitarian disaster in Gaza has worsened, helps a two-state resolution whereas internet hosting members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Since the Israel-Hamas battle began, protests have erupted throughout the nation.

Footage from the protests confirmed police firing tear fuel and utilizing water cannons to disperse crowds waving Turkish and Palestinian flags and chanting slogans. Protesters toppled barricades and clashed with police in riot gear.

Protesters have been additionally seen hurling plastic chairs, rocks, and different objects at police, who fired smoke bombs at crowds. Scuffles broke out between the crowds and safety forces

IHH president Bulent Yildirim addressed crowds in Adana and urged them to chorus from attacking police.

More than 300 Americans and their relations have left Gaza however US residents stay within the besieged enclave and troublesome negotiations proceed to safe the discharge of hostages taken by Hamas, a White House official mentioned on Sunday.

Those launched included U.S. residents, lawful everlasting residents and their relations, Jonathan Finer, deputy nationwide safety adviser, mentioned on the CBS program Face the Nation.

Finer mentioned plenty of Americans who need to get out stay inside Gaza because the Israel-Hamas battle rages however didn’t specify what number of.

There have been round 400 American residents and their relations, totaling round 1,000 folks, who needed to get out, US secretary of state Antony Blinken mentioned final week.

Evacuations of injured Gazans and international passport holders via the Rafah crossing to Egypt have been suspended since Saturday, however Egyptian, US and Qatari officers mentioned there have been efforts to renew them.

The shadow defence secretary has acknowledged Sir Keir Starmer’s strategy to the Israel-Hamas battle has “induced damage to many individuals”.

John Healey’s feedback come because the Labour chief is battling to keep up self-discipline within the get together, with a number of senior figures revolting towards his stance of solely calling for a humanitarian “pause” in Gaza.

Asked on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme if he accepted Mr Sarwar’s criticism that Sir Keir’s strategy has induced damage to Muslim voters, Mr Healey mentioned: “I settle for that it’s induced damage to many individuals and Keir Starmer would try this as properly.

“But he understands why persons are calling for a ceasefire and need to see an finish to the combating.

“His concern is twofold and he says that at current this isn’t the fitting time for now. First, as a result of Israel should have the fitting to self-defence, it should have the fitting to go after the Hamas fighters and its missile launchers.

“And secondly, ultimately, what’s most necessary now could be what’s going to greatest work to carry some alleviation of the struggling to folks in Palestine, get extra support into Gaza and create extra space for additional diplomacy. And that fairly clearly has been the humanitarian pauses that Keir Starmer has been arguing for, a break within the combating if you happen to like.”

Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf has mentioned his in-laws are “secure and again home” after they fled Gaza.

“I’m happy to say my in-laws are secure and again home,” he mentioned in a put up on social media web site X.

“We are, after all, elated, however my father-in-law mentioned, ‘My heart is broken in two, and with my mum, son & grandchildren in Gaza’.

“He then broke down telling me how arduous it was saying goodbye to them.”