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Israeli assault on Rafah kills four as Hezbollah launches 340 missiles.
Morning strikes by Israel on Gaza’s southern city of Rafah have killed four people, according to reports, as Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets at targets in Israel.
Further Israeli strikes on the Nuseirat refugee camp wounded five people, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported. They were transferred to the al-Awda Hospital.
The continued strikes on Gaza come amid renewed Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday morning, with Hezbollah firing a barrage of rockets at northern Israel.
Israel army radio reported on Sunday that Hezbollah fired 340 missiles into Israel with some hitting the suburbs of Tel Aviv.
Heavy fighting was also reported in south Lebanon as the Israeli army continues to press its advance as part of the second phase of its ground invasion.
Save the Children estimates that 130,000 children are trapped in north Gaza since Israeli forces besieged the area on 6 October.
Jeremy Stoner, the charities regional director, said that “The situation in northern Gaza is not fit for human survival and yet we know there are about 130,000 children under 10 trapped in those conditions, not to mention the thousands of older children and their families.”
“The war in Gaza is a war on children. There is no plainer way to illustrate this then to look at the people who make up the death figures – over 4 in every 10 people verified killed in Gaza is a child. Of these children, most are 5–9-year-olds. These are children who should be learning to read and ride bikes. They should not be ending up in mortuaries.
“Without access and a ceasefire, we are condemning children to perish in hell on earth,” he added.
Renewed Israeli strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday, state media reported and AFPTV images showed, after an Israeli army evacuation warning and following heavy raids on the Hezbollah bastion the previous night.
The official National News Agency reported “two consecutive strikes in the vicinity of the Haret Hreik area”, as AFPTV images showed heavy smoke rising from two locations. Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee on social media platform X said the military would target Hezbollah “facilities and interests” in the southern suburbs, pinpointing several locations.
The supreme leader of Iran, which backs the Hamas and Hezbollah militants fighting Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, said on Monday that death sentences should be issued for Israeli leaders, not arrest warrants.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was commenting on a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence chief Yoav Gallant, and a Hamas leader, Ibrahim Al-Masri.
“They issued an arrest warrant, that’s not enough… Death sentence must be issued for these criminal leaders”, Khamenei said, referring to the Israeli leaders.
(Reuters)