Rights group warns Palestinians are “cut off from the world” in northern Gaza as Israel launches more deadly attacks on the besieged area.

    Palestinians fleeing Gaza’s Beit Lahiya say they saw bodies lying in the streets and Israeli soldiers detaining and beating men.

    Israel carries out new strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs as the army says it killed senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine in an attack earlier this month; Hezbollah has yet to comment.

    In Gaza, at least 42,718 people have been killed and 100,282 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, and more than 200 were taken captive.

    Israeli artillery shelling reported in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya, Rafah

    Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the Israeli army has continued to bomb neighbourhoods in Gaza overnight.

    Israeli artillery shelling was reported in:

•     Jabalia, in the north
•     Beit Lahiya, also in northern Gaza
•     Northwestern areas of Rafah in the south.

    We’ll bring you more soon.

    Doctors group calls on Australia to challenge Israeli ban on medical teams

    The Medical Association for the Prevention of War says it has written to Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong asking her to “use all diplomatic tools” to get Israel to “reinstate vital Gaza access to international medical teams”.

    The Melbourne-based organisation warned that Israel’s ban will “increase preventable death, disease and suffering” in Gaza.

    According to the World Health Organization, eight groups and more than 50 specialist health workers have been blocked from entering Gaza by Israeli authorities since August.

    Wong last month made protecting humanitarian personnel a centrepiece of her speech at the UN General Assembly, nearly six months after an Israeli drone strike killed Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and six of her World Central Kitchen colleagues in Gaza.