Updates: Deadly Israeli attacks continue in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon

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You can read our roundup of what happened today in the Gaza Strip, here.

If you need a bit more background as to what Israel is doing in northern Gaza now, you can take a look at our explainer, here.

Finally, if you are after a longer read, you should take a look at our feature about how Palestinian Canadians, having faced online threats and racism, are pushing to name and recognise anti-Palestinian racism as a distinct form of discrimination, here.

We will shortly be closing this live page and moving to a new one, but before we do, here’s a summary of today’s key events:

• An Israeli attack on the village of Aitou in Lebanon has killed 21 people and wounded eight.
• UN peacekeepers will stay in all positions in Lebanon despite Israeli calls for them to move amid intensifying fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and five blue helmets suffering injuries, the UN peacekeeping chief said.
• The Reuters news agency reports that an Israeli air strike has killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded many in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood.
• An Israeli attack has targeted a house in the Jabalia camp, killing at least four people.
• Several Palestinians have been killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing of another school sheltering displaced people in the north of the Gaza Strip.
• At least four Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded after Israeli fighter jets bombed a tent encampment on the grounds of al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.
• A child and a young man have been killed during an eight-hour raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces.

Australia has warned its citizens not to travel to Israel and urged Australians there to leave the country while commercial flights remain available.

“The Australian government has serious concerns the security situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories could deteriorate rapidly,” Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a post on X.

Dr Mohammed Tahir, a volunteer surgeon, is dealing with the carnage after Israel’s attack on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza.

Tahir said he and his overwhelmed team were already dealing with another mass casualty incident – the Israeli shelling of a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat – when victims from the hospital attack came streaming in.

“We were inundated. We had women, men, children as young as one year of age dying in front of our eyes,” Tahir told Al Jazeera from outside the hospital.

“I have spoken to countless individuals who witnessed some of the horrors. People are traumatised. I think it’s fair to say that people have really got to the point now where they feel there is no hope – no one is coming to help them, no one is coming to save them.”

Tahir said they are dealing with patients with burns on 60 to 80 percent of their bodies – many who won’t survive.

“Patients with significant high percentage burns, unfortunately, their fate is sealed. They won’t even make it to the ICU. They will die.”

“It’s a horror show here. Honestly, sometimes I feel like this is not real life – that this can go on and this degree of suffering is allowed to happen in this world.”

Abbas Araghchi, who is on a visit to Muscat, has told Iranian state television that indirect contact between Iran and the US through Oman has been halted due to the situation in the region.

The diplomat also said conditions will not be suitable for such communications before the regional crisis is resolved.

The funeral procession for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed in an Israeli air strike alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, has begun in Iraq, according to the AFP news agency.

Nilforoushan, a top commander in the IRGC foreign operations arm, was killed on September 27 by an Israeli strike in southern Beirut.

The IRGC said on Friday that Nilforoushan’s body had been recovered from the site of the strike.

His body was taken from Beirut to the Iraqi city of Karbala where his funeral prayers were held before a huge crowd.

The funeral cortege then moved on to the nearby Al-Abbas shrine before leaving for the city of Najaf.

Nilforoushan’s body is due to be sent to the Iranian city of Mashhad, according to the Iranian Sepah news agency.

An employment tribunal in the UK has published its judgement on why a professor who the University of Bristol dismissed over allegations of making anti-Semitic remarks was unfairly discriminated against.

Professor David Miller, who lectured on political sociology, had told the panel he thought Zionism was “inherently racist, imperialist and colonial”.

The panel found his views “worthy of respect in a democratic society”.

Employment judge Rohan Pirani said that although many would “vehemently and cogently disagree” with Miller’s view of politics and history, “others have the same or similar beliefs”.

He said that Miller’s opposition to Zionism “is not opposition to the idea of Jewish self-determination or of a preponderantly Jewish state existing in the world, but rather, as he defines it, to the exclusive realisation of Jewish rights to self-determination within a land that is home to a very substantial non-Jewish population”.

UN peacekeepers will stay in all positions in Lebanon despite Israeli calls for them to move amid intensifying fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and five blue helmets suffering injuries, the UN peacekeeping chief said.

“The decision was made that UNIFIL would currently stay in all its positions in spite of the calls that were made by the [Israeli army] to vacate the positions that are in the vicinity of the Blue Line,” said UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix.

“I want to emphasise that this decision still remains.”

Five peacekeepers were injured in a series of incidents last week, with the latest seeing the UN force accuse Israeli troops of breaking through a gate and entering one of their positions.

Earlier today, Netanyahu again called for the peacekeepers in southern Lebanon to move from certain areas close to his country’s border with Lebanon.

Israeli forces have stormed the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

Citing local sources, the Wafa news agency reported that several military vehicles broke into the village and fired live ammunition, stun grenades and tear gas.

No injuries or arrests have been reported yet.

Large pro-Palestine protests have taken place today in the Italian city of Udine as Israel’s football team faces off against Italy in a UEFA Nations League game.

It is the first match Israel has played outside Hungary this year.

The Belgian football federation refused to host Israel last month in the same competition, citing security reasons. Last year, Israel’s football team played in Kosovo and Andorra.

Here are some of the main developments over the last few hours:

• A child and a young man have been killed during an eight-hour raid on Jenin by Israeli forces.
• An Israeli attack on the village of Aitou in Lebanon has killed 21 people and wounded eight.
• Reuters news agency reports that an Israeli air strike has killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded many in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood.
• Several Palestinians have been killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing of another school sheltering displaced people in the north of the Gaza Strip.

Hamas official Osama Hamdan has been speaking to Al Jazeera.

These are some of the points he made in the interview:

• Israel’s goals after a year of aggression have not been achieved and the military’s plan is to play with the emotions of the Israeli public.
• The aim of the current Israeli operation is to attempt to displace part of the population of northern Gaza towards the south.
• The Israeli army aims to use maximum firepower in Gaza to paint an image of achievement and success.
• There must be efforts to support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
• Resistance operations will continue and expand to defend our people despite all circumstances.
• What is happening is the development of the genocide process in Gaza, and the international community must move to stop the aggression.
• Israeli aggression will spread if it is not stopped.