New UN report says Israel has “perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system” that has included “deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities”, both of which are war crimes.

    Israeli air strikes killed at least 95 people across Gaza on Thursday, the vast majority of victims were civilians in the besieged north of the enclave, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

    Seven people – four foreign workers and three Israelis – have been killed in separate Hezbollah rocket strikes in northern Israel, the deadliest day in months for civilians in the country.

    Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,204 Palestinians and wounded 101,641 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 taken captive.

    In Lebanon, at least 2,865 people have now been killed and 13,047 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began, with 45 people killed across the country in the past 24 hours, the Lebanese Health Ministry says.

    At least 10 Israeli strikes have hit Beirut overnight

    Israeli fighter jets have carried out at least 10 strikes in Beirut overnight, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reports, after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for several neighbourhoods in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs.

    The Israeli raids hit Ghobeiry, al-Kafaat, the Sayyed Hadi highway, and nearby al-Mujtaba Complex, and the old airport road, NNA reported.

    “The raids left massive destruction in the targeted areas, as dozens of buildings were levelled to the ground, in addition to the outbreak of fires,” NNA said.

    Earlier, we reported the Israeli military issued two evacuation orders in quick succession, ordering residents to flee several neighbourhoods of the Dahiyeh suburb, warning that they would be attacked imminently.

    Iraqi armed group claims drone attacks on ‘vital’ targets in Israel

    The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose network of pro-Iran armed groups, said it launched four separate drone attacks on vital “targets” in southern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in the north of the country on Friday morning.

    Three drone attacks targeted southern Israel and one targeted a “vital target” in the Golan Heights, the groups said in posts on social media.

    Israel’s media said earlier on Friday that fighter jets had intercepted two unmanned aerial vehicles over the Red Sea that had been launched from the east, without identifying what country or group had targeted Israel with the attack.