Israeli forces attacked a school that was being used as a field hospital and a shelter in central Deir el-Balah, killing at least 30 people, including 15 children.

    Israel’s military bombed villages and towns in south and east Lebanon after accusing Hezbollah of firing a rocket that killed 12 young people from the Druze community in the town of Majdal Shams in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Lebanese group denied all responsibility for the rocket attack.

    A trauma surgeon who worked at a hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis accused Israel of deliberately targeting children. “We regularly saw, on a daily basis, children shot in the head and chest,” said Feroze Sidhwa.

    At least 39,258 people have been killed and 90,589 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.

    Israel-Lebanon cross-border attacks in numbers

    The attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams that killed 12 people on Saturday was the deadliest attack in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights since Israel-Hezbollah cross-border attacks intensified last October.

    According to Reuters, the latest attack brings to a total of 44 people killed on the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border since October, including at least 21 soldiers.

    In Lebanon, at least 543 people had been killed by Israeli attacks as of June, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED).

    Israel wants a status quo in which Palestinian death is treated as normal

    More from Baddar.

    The analyst called out the double standard in global reaction to killings in Israel and Palestine.

    He said the global concern over the rocket attack on Golan Heights stands in stark contrast to their muted responses to Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip.

    “Really, if this incident [in Golan Heights] were to take place a thousand times over, it still would not even come close to the number of Palestinian children that Israel has killed in the Gaza Strip. And even if you isolate [Saturday] alone, you have an Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed more than more than 50 Palestinians. So those ought to be much bigger news, if you’re looking specifically at the numbers and the scale of the casualties,” Baddar told Al Jazeera.

    “Yet nobody looks at this as a crisis, simply because we’ve normalised Palestinian death. And what Israel basically is suggesting here is that the status quo ought to be an environment in which Israel can slaughter Palestinians by the thousands, with complete and total impunity. But if Israelis get hurt or killed, then this is a crisis and this is grounds for spreading the war.”

    Baddar said the international community – if it were seriously interested in de-escalation – must not allow a “status quo in which Palestinian death is treated as normal and Israel has complete and total impunity”.

    He added, “If we are interesting in resolving the situation, we have to resolve the core issue right now, which immediately means a ceasefire in Gaza. And in the long term that has to include resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so that tensions with Lebanon and with Yemen and elsewhere can actually be defused and we can move towards a better future for everyone.”