Occupied Al-Quds: More 29 Palestinians were martyred and 93 wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry added.
At least 42,438 people have been killed and 99,246 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.
The mayor of a major town in south Lebanon was among 16 people killed when an Israeli airstrike destroyed its municipal headquarters in the biggest attack on an official Lebanese state building since the Israeli air campaign began.
Lebanese officials denounced the incident, which also wounded more than 50 people in Nabatieh, a provincial capital, saying it was proof that Israel’s campaign against the Hezbollah armed group was now shifting to target the Lebanese state.
The Israelis “intentionally targeted a meeting of the municipal council to discuss the city’s service and relief situation” to aid people displaced by the Israeli campaign, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said.
EU criticises US for giving Israel a month to improve Gaza’s humanitarian situation
The EU’s foreign policy chief has criticised the United States for allowing Israel an entire month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
“The US has been saying to Israel that they have to improve humanitarian support to Gaza, but they gave one month delay,” Josep Borrell told reporters at an EU summit in Brussels.
“One month delay at the current pace of people being killed. It’s too many people,” Borrell added, calling the situation a “catastrophe”.
US officials told Israel on Wednesday it must take steps in the next month to improve the humanitarian conditions in Gaza or face potential restrictions on US military aid – the strongest warning since the war began a year ago.
Humanitarian groups have accused Israel of deliberately starving and forcibly displacing Palestinians in northern Gaza.
