By Desmond Nleya
Powerful blasts rocked Beirut overnight in some of the heaviest Israeli strikes on the city so far as the Lebanese Health Ministry reports 37 killed and 151 wounded in bombing attacks across the country in the past 24 hours.
At least 18 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli jet fighter attack on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
The head of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, says at least 21 Palestinians were killed as three UN-run school shelters were attacked by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip over two days.
Iran has conveyed a message to Washington via Qatar saying that it does not seek regional war but “the phase of unilateral self-restraint has ended”, an Iranian source tells Al Jazeera.
In Gaza, at least 41,788 people have been killed and 96,794 injured in Israeli attacks since October 2023. In Israel, at least 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 people were taken captive.
Source: Aljazeera
