By Lyndal Rowlands

    The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) says it is concerned Israel “may be causing the destruction of the Palestinian population in Gaza’s northernmost governorate through death and displacement”.

    The UN is particularly concerned about the people of Jabalia, Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya, where more than 87 Palestinians were killed or are missing after an Israeli attack that levelled an entire residential block.

    At least 12 Israeli missiles have hit Beirut’s southern suburbs after attacks by Israel killed at least 16 people across Lebanon on Saturday, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

    The UN said an Israeli army bulldozer demolished a peacekeeping observation tower in southern Lebanon, marking the latest attack on the UN’s Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL).

    In Gaza, at least 42,603 people have been killed and 99,795 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Hamas’s assault on southern Israel and more than 200 were taken captive.

    Israeli forces raid towns and villages in occupied West Bank

    Israeli forces have stormed several towns and villages across the occupied West Bank overnight, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.

    Locations the soldiers raided included:

•     The town of Beitunia, north of Ramallah, in the central West Bank
•     The town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank
•     The city of Hebron, in the southern West Bank
•     The city of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

    Israeli army says planning ‘military exercise’ near Lebanon border

    The Israeli army has said vehicles and military forces will move through the Israeli coastal city of Nahariya in the morning as part of a “military exercise”, in a post on X.

    Nahariya is one of the closest Israeli cities to the Lebanese border.

    Jordan FM says Israel is ‘brutally terrorising’ Palestinians ‘to push them out of their homeland’

    Jordan’s foreign minister has condemned Israel’s assault on northern Gaza describing it as “pure evil and a war crime that humanity should not tolerate.”

    “Israeli occupation forces should not be allowed to burn any more Palestinian children alive, should not be allowed to commit any more murders and destroy any more schools or hospitals,” Ayman Safadi said in a post on X.

    “There is no justification for the failure by the international community and its institutions to protect the innocent, stop the ethnic cleansing, implement international law and ensure justice,” he added.

    “The impunity must end.”