Live Updates: Israel kills 10 people in designated 'safe zone' in Gaza

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

2034 GMT — Israel kills 10 people in designated 'safe zone' in Gaza

An Israeli air strike killed at least 10 Palestinians and injured several others in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, targeting a rest area near tents housing displaced civilians.

The Israeli military had previously designated the area, located in the Al Mawasi neighbourhood, as a "safe zone."

The strike hit a rest stop located outside the southern gate of Asdaa Resort, where many displaced families had sought shelter, a medical source told Anadolu Agency.

Witnesses reported that the "Happy Time" rest area, situated on a main street north of Route 5 in Al Mawasi, is frequented by displaced residents for internet access.

2236 GMT — Palestine, Jordan condemn minister's call to impose Israeli sovereignty over occupied West Bank

Palestine and Jordan have condemned remarks by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that he would urge his government to engage with the incoming Trump administration in the US to gain its support for Israel's illegal extension of its sovereignty to the occupied West Bank in 2025.

The two countries warned that such plans could lead to a "total regional explosion" and exacerbate displacement and conflict.

Palestinian presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh and the Palestinian Foreign Ministry issued the statement, which was echoed by Hamas and the Jordanian Foreign Ministry.

Abu Rudeineh said Smotrich's statements reveal Israel's intent to "complete its control over the West Bank by 2025," according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

He said the remarks openly defy a UN General Assembly resolution for implementing an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling, WAFA reported.

1930 GMT — UN 'urgently calls on Israel to open up' North Gaza to humanitarian operations

The UN issued an urgent call to Israel to allow humanitarian access to North Gaza, highlighting the "massive needs."

Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at a news conference that "access to North Gaza governorate is still extremely limited. Over the weekend, the UN was unable to access the area."

Expressing worry over the "fate of Palestinians remaining in North Gaza," the spokesman reiterated that the UN "urgently calls on Israel to open up the area to humanitarian operations at the scale needed, given the massive needs".

1901 GMT — Death toll from Israeli strike in northern Lebanon rises

The death toll from an Israeli air strike on the village of Ain Yaaqoub in northern Lebanon has risen to 28.

Eyewitnesses and medical sources reported that the attack struck a building housing several displaced people.

Several individuals were trapped under the rubble, with ambulances arriving at the site, the same sources added.

Lebanon's official news agency, NNA, confirmed the initial toll, saying that the 28 people included Syrian nationals, displaced Lebanese, and residents of the village.

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