al jazeera

By Urooba Jamal and Usaid Siddiqui
   A predawn strike by Israeli forces on northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp kills at least 33 – including 13 children and nine women – as rescuers continue to pull bodies from a destroyed family home.

    An Israeli air attack on the Lebanese village of Almat kills at least 23 people, including seven children, and wounds several others.

    The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says “famine is likely happening in northern Gaza” as a doctor flags “alarming cases of malnutrition” among children and adults.

    Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,603 Palestinians and wounded 102,929 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 3,136 people have been killed and 13,979 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.

    Israeli citizens told avoid visits abroad after Amsterdam violence

    Israel told citizens to avoid going to cultural and sports events abroad involving in the coming week in the wake of clashes between Israeli football fans and people in the Netherlands.

    A statement issued by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office said Israel allegedly had intelligence that pro-Palestinian groups abroad intended to harm Israelis in cities in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and others.

    Authorities in Amsterdam imposed a three-day ban on Friday after street fights involving Israeli football supporters before and after a match on Thursday between visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam.

    Israeli drone kills three Palestinians trying to build water well

    Three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone attack as people attempted to build a well during a scarcity of water in central Gaza.

    The Israeli quadcopter strike hit a group of people installing a waterpipe network in Nuseirat refugee camp. The bodies were transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir el-Balah.

    Israel continues to face global criticism for attacks on Gaza’s civilians. A United Nations report on Friday said about 70 percent of Gaza’s verified death toll is women and children.

    Hezbollah attacks Israeli naval base with ‘squadron of drones’

    Hezbollah says it successfully targeted the Haifa naval base with unmanned aerial vehicles.

    The Lebanese group “launched an air attack at 4pm today [14:00 GMT] with a squadron of attack drones on the Haifa naval base … and hit its targets accurately”, it said in a statement on Telegram.

    There was no immediate comment from Israel’s military.

    In addition, Hezbollah said its fighters attacked the Israeli army near the “border wall” in the town of Kfar Kila, in southern Lebanon, with missiles.