newest information on Gaza battle

The Israeli Defense Forces mentioned it expanded its floor incursion into Gaza in a single day, because the nation enters a second part of its battle towards Hamas.

In a submit on X, previously generally known as Twitter, the IDF mentioned one in all its plane struck a Hamas submit whereas forces “eliminated multiple terrorists barricaded within civilian buildings and terrorist tunnels who attempted to attack the forces.”

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— Matt Clinch

Global development can be impacted if the continuing Israel-Hamas battle spills into the broader Middle East area, the World Trade Organization’s director-general has warned.

“If it spreads beyond where it is now, to the rest of the Middle East, there will be an impact,” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala advised CNBC’s Martin Soong.

That’s as a result of the Middle East is “the source” of a variety of the world’s pure fuel and oil, the WTO chief mentioned.

Escalating battle might additional weigh on commerce development which is already “quite grim,” she added.

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– Sheila Chiang

Lebanon’s Hezbollah mentioned on Sunday it shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon with a surface-to-air missile, the primary time it has introduced such an incident, as clashes on the Lebanese border escalate.

The drone was hit close to Khiam, about 5 km (three miles) from the border with Israel, and was seen falling in Israeli territory, Hezbollah added. Two safety sources in Lebanon mentioned it was the primary time Hezbollah had introduced downing an Israeli drone.

The Israeli Defence Ministry did not present remark. Israel’s navy, which claimed extra strikes on what it described as Hezbollah targets on Sunday, additionally didn’t remark.

Mohanad Hage Ali, of the Carnegie Middle East Center, mentioned Hezbollah has “insinuated they have this capability but it is the first time they declare they have this kind of capability to shoot down a drone.”
— Reuters

Before and after satellite tv for pc pictures from Maxar Technologies present destruction of neighborhoods in Northern Gaza from continued Israeli airstrikes.

Before: Atatra neighborhood

After: Atatra neighborhood

Before: Al Karameh neigborhood

After: Al Karameh neigborhood

Before: Izbat Beit Hanoun neighborhood

After: Izbat Beit Hanoun neighborhood

Before: Beit Hanoun neighborhood

After: Beit Hanoun neighborhood

The Israeli navy struck targets in Lebanon and Syria on Sunday after projectiles had been fired into Israel.

Clashes have been happening throughout Israel’s tense border with Lebanon because the onset of the Hamas-Israel battle, largely contained to a number of border cities.

But on Sunday, rockets had been fired from Syria as properly, falling into open Israeli territory, the navy mentioned. It fired again on the web site the place the rockets had been launched.

Israel’s navy additionally offered video of a number of strikes inside Lebanon, displaying explosions erupting amongst bushes and missiles hitting a constructing on a hillside. The navy mentioned it shot down a drone and killed a militant who tried to method the border fence.

On Sunday night, Hamas mentioned its forces in Lebanon had fired 16 missiles on the northern Israeli city of Nahariya. The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, additionally introduced it had fired missiles at a number of websites throughout the border Sunday afternoon, together with one which it mentioned had hit an Israeli infantry unit close to the city of Birket Risha and induced “confirmed injuries.”

— Associated Press