The ministry of Health in Gaza says at least 42,010 people have been Killed and 97,720 wounded by Israel Defense forces in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
In its daily update on the killing and wounding of Palestinians, the ministry said of those, 45 Palestinian were killed and 130 wounded in the last 24-hour reporting period.
Meanwhile, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has reports the Ein el-Hilweh camp close to Sidon, El-Buss in Tyre, and Beddawi north of Tripoli have been affected by Israeli air strikes.
The organisation’s operations remain limited in the Tyre area in the south after being suspended during Israeli attacks at the start of October that displaced UNRWA staff. Only some “limited water and sanitation services continue”, it said.
“Three Palestine refugee camps in the south and one camp in Beirut are significantly depopulated as people have fled to seek safety and protection elsewhere,” the agency said in its latest situation report.
The UNRWA opened 12 emergency shelters after the intensifying Israeli attacks on Lebanon, but one was closed on October 7. Three emergency shelters “have reached maximum capacity”, according to the agency, which said 4,570 internally displaced people are registered in shelters.
In the another development, dozens of Iranian lawmakers wrote to the country’s Supreme National Security Council calling for urgent action towards developing nuclear weapons as Israeli threats rise in the region.
The 39 members of parliament argued Iran needs to “reevaluate its defence doctrine”, Hassan Ali Akhlaghi, one of the signatories, told the semi-official ISNA news website.
“Today, none of the international organisations or even European countries or the US are capable of controlling the Zionist regime, and the regime is committing any crimes it can, so we wrote this letter,” he said.
Supreme Leader Aytollah Ali Khamenei issued a religious ruling two decades ago saying nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islamic principles.
But calls to shift that policy have gained more favour among hardliners in Tehran during growing hostilities across the region.
The same vein, the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry says Tehran’s top diplomat, Abbas Araghchi, will arrive in Saudi Arabia later today with a focus on stopping the expanding war.
The goal is to further diplomatic efforts “to stop the Israeli regime’s genocide and aggression and to alleviate the pain and suffering of our brothers and sisters in Gaza and Lebanon”, Esmail Baghaei wrote in a post on X.
“Carnage and aggression must be stopped.”
Aljazeera