Hezbollah fires 340 missiles and drones at Israel, according to Israeli army radio, wounding 11 people and causing “severe damage” in Tel Aviv, as its fighters put up fierce resistance in southern Lebanon.

    Israel’s air attacks on the Lebanese capital continue, causing “massive destruction” as Lebanon’s Education Ministry suspends schools in Beirut until January.

    Israeli forces also carried out fresh attacks on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, a day after an assault that killed two people and wounded over a dozen medical staff, including the director of the besieged facility.

    Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 44,211 Palestinians and wounded 104,567 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day with more than 200 taken captive.

    In Lebanon, at least 3,754 people have been killed and 15,626 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.

    Palestinians searching through rubble risk death from unexploded bombs: aid group

    The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is warning that a lack of aid reaching Gaza is forcing Palestinians to search through destroyed buildings for basic necessities, putting them at risk of death or injury from unexploded bombs.

    Seventy percent of people surveyed in Gaza said they had returned to areas that had seen active fighting, putting them at higher risk from unexploded bombs, a new DRC report found.

    Twenty-three percent knew someone who had been injured or killed by unexploded bombs, including children who had played with them and people mistakenly picking them up when gathering firewood.

    Lilu Thapa, DRC’s Executive Regional Director for the Middle East said people in Gaza face the “threat of starvation due to an almost total blockade of aid and goods” alongside the “ever-present danger of unexploded ordnance, a threat that will stay long after the fighting subsides.”

    Inaction to reach a ceasefire in Gaza “looks more like absolute indifference by the day”, Thapa added, describing the continued lack of accountability for Israel as a “[stark illustration] of a global double standard”.

    More from Kamal Adwan’s director

    Abu Safia also called for the immediate release dozens of medical staff who were detained by Israeli forces in late October.

    “They were brutally detained, beaten, and insulted, dragged in an inhuman manner,” Safia said in his letter posted on Telegram.

    “Unfortunately, we still have no information on their whereabouts or well-being,” he added. “We call on the world to intervene immediately to ascertain the fate of our colleagues who were arrested and to secure their release without delay.”