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• 1:47 pm:

  According to the Palestinian Health Authority, 22 people were killed in an Israeli attack on a school in southern Gaza City. The school served as accommodation for refugees. The Palestinian news agency Wafa had previously reported 13 deaths.

• The dead included 13 children, including a three-month-old baby, and six women. The Israeli military says it has attacked a Hamas command center that was integrated into the building complex. He repeated his accusation that Hamas was using civilian facilities for military purposes. Hamas rejects this.

• 1:38 pm:

  Iran’s spiritual and political leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accuses Israel of committing “shameless crimes” against children. The attacks were not directed against fighters, but against the common people. “Since they cannot harm the real fighters in Palestine, they take out their vicious anger on small children, hospital patients and schools full of small children,” Khamenei said in a speech broadcast on state television.

• 12.25pm:

  According to a report by the Palestinian news agency Wafa, 13 people were killed in an Israeli attack on a school in Gaza City that was sheltering refugees. More people are said to have been injured in another attack on a school in the same area.

• 12:18 pm:

  According to the Gaza Strip Health Authority, 41,391 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the day the terrorist organization Hamas attacked Israel. The authorities said 95,760 people were injured.

• 11:29 am:

  Iran strongly condemns the intention to kill the Lebanese Hezbollah military chief in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. According to Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, there is no act of retaliation planned by Iran. “The incident is a matter for Hezbollah, and they will certainly respond appropriately in due course,” Iran’s top diplomat said, according to the Isna news agency.

• Araghchi describes the targeted killing of commander Ibrahim Akil as “a criminal act of desperation by the Zionist regime.” Israel has reached a tipping point and is now trying to “drag the entire region into the quagmire with such crimes.” Iran will press for international condemnation of Israel’s “war crimes” in order to prevent an even more dangerous situation in the Middle East, the minister said.

• Araghchi is currently in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. The President of Iran, Massoud Peseschkian, is also expected there next week. According to Araghchi, the crisis in the Middle East is at the top of Peseschkian’s agenda in discussions with his foreign counterparts. Another topic should be the resumption of nuclear negotiations with the West.

• 10:52 am:

  At least 31 people were killed in the Israeli attack on Beirut on Friday, according to Lebanon’s health minister. These include three children and seven women.

Background Information

The conflict between Israel and Lebanon has been escalating in recent days, with both sides accusing each other of terrorism. The UN human rights commissioner has spoken out about war crimes in Lebanon, and the international community is calling for calm and restraint.