“SUFFICIENT”

Vowing to stop Hamas from regrouping in the already devastated northern Gaza Strip, Israel launched a massive assault on the area in early October.

In Gaza City, a man who said he took his cousins ​​to hospital after a strike urged “the world… to end” the war.

“We’re fed up,” said Belal, who gave only his first name.

“I’ve lost my whole family – 10 family members are gone and I’m the only one left… All we want is an end to this injustice we’re living through. We don’t want anything else.”

At least 44,056 people have been killed in Gaza in more than 13 months of war, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-controlled territory’s Ministry of Health, which the United Nations considers reliable.

It was sparked by the deadliest attack in Israeli history, which killed 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to official Israeli figures AFP.

In Lebanon, AFPTV footage showed plumes of smoke rising over southern Beirut after the Israeli military called for the evacuation of three locations, warning on social media of imminent attacks.

The army later said in a statement that its “fighter jets have completed a new round of strikes” in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

The latest raids follow intense Israeli attacks in southern Beirut, as well as other areas in southern and eastern Lebanon, where Israel says it has targeted Hezbollah militants.

More than 11 months of cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah over the conflict in Gaza turned into all-out war in September, with Israel carrying out an extensive bombing campaign and sending ground troops into southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese Health Ministry announced that at least 52 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Thursday, including around 40 deaths in eastern Lebanon, bringing the total death toll since October 2023 to 3,583.