Staff at the Kamal Adwan, al-Awda and Indonesian hospitals in Gaza say food is running out as Israel’s siege of Jabalia in the north of the territory continues for a 13th day.

    Gaza’s civil defence says it has been unable to recover the bodies of dozens of people left buried under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel’s bombardment of Jabalia.

    The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says its peacekeepers have again come under “direct and apparently deliberate fire” from an Israeli tank in southern Lebanon, in the latest attack.

    In Gaza, at least 42,409 people have been killed and 99,153 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Hamas’s attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.

    Lebanese village blown up by Israeli soldiers was home to historic shrine

    Mhaibib, A Lebanese village where Israeli soldiers filmed themselves setting off a massive explosion, was home to a 2,100-year-old shrine of significant religious and historic value, the Anadolu news agency reports.

    The exact fate of Mhaibib, including the shrine of Benjamin, son of Jacob, was unclear after the explosions, since most residents had already fled following earlier orders to leave from the Israeli army, the village’s leader, or mukhtar, Qassem Ahmed Jaber, told Anadolu.

    As we reported earlier, Israeli soldiers filmed themselves smiling and laughing in a video showing the destruction of what appeared to be most, if not all of the historic village.

    Fire breaks out in Syria’s Latakia city after Israeli attack: Report

    We reported earlier on an Israeli air strike on the Syrian coastal city of Latakia.

    Syrian state news agency SANA has now reported that “anti-aircraft defence intercepted hostile targets above Latakia” and fires broke out after the attack. “Fires were triggered by the Israeli aggression” at the entrance to Latakia, SANA said.

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitor, said the Israeli strike “targeted a weapons depot in Latakia city”.

    Though Israel’s military has launched hundreds of strikes against targets in Syria in recent years, it rarely admits to its military campaign against what it says are Iran-aligned and supported armed groups in the country.