Updates: Israel kills 55 people in Gaza, keeps pounding Lebanon

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We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of today’s events:

• Hezbollah claims to have hit four Israeli army bases and one military company.
• The UN refugee agency’s chief says an Israeli air strike hit “humanitarian structures” at a border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, which was also struck last month.
• Israeli forces arrested 10 Palestinians during a raid on the Fawwar camp in the Hebron Governorate in the south of the occupied West Bank.
• An Israeli military official says that naval commandos captured a “senior Hezbollah operative” in the coastal town of Batroun and brought him to Israel for investigation.
• The WHO says six people, including four children, were wounded in an Israeli attack on a polio vaccination centre.
• Lebanon’s Health Ministry says one person killed and 15 wounded in an Israeli strike on southern Beirut.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that an unspecified number of people were wounded by an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the Tal al-Hawa area.

Earlier, we reported, citing the Wafa news agency, that Israeli warplanes conducted strikes on the Sabra neighbourhood in southern Gaza City, killing one person.

The UN is marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.

Its focus has been Israel’s war on Gaza. The UN says the conflict has seen the “highest number of killings of journalists in any war in decades”.

The Committee to Protect Journalists says:

• Since the war began, 126 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli forces. That’s the highest number in a year since tracking started in 1992.
• Israel has arrested at least 66 Palestinian journalists since October last year.
• Almost 4,000 international journalists are accredited by Israel to cover the conflict but only one has been granted entry into Gaza.
• No members of the Israeli army have been held accountable for the killing or targeting of journalists.

In its latest war update, the Israeli army says that the projectiles crossed from Lebanon into Israel over the past day (Saturday).

Earlier, we reported that the Lebanese armed group claimed its drones attacked Israel’s Ramat David airbase and airport in Haifa, as well as the Glilot base of the military intelligence unit 8200 in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.

It also said it hit the Shraga base north of Acre, the Misgav base northeast of the city of Haifa, and the Alta military industries company, also northeast of Haifa.

Armed Israeli settlers from an illegal outpost have attacked Palestinian olive pickers west of the central city of Salfit with shouting, cursing and threats, in an attempt to force them to leave their lands, the Wafa news agency has quoted farmer Yousef al-Deek as saying.

The attack took place in the Khalat al-Haramiya area. Al-Deek said during the past week, settlers also stole 30 bags of olives and agricultural equipment.

The Wafa news agency reports that Israeli warplanes conducted strikes on the Sabra neighbourhood in southern Gaza City, killing a Palestinian.

A military helicopter is reported to have simultaneously opened fire on southern areas of the city.

Wafa also reported that Israeli drones struck areas northeast of Rafah, killing two Palestinians.

Francesca Albanese says there is nothing that prevents a UN member state from abiding by international law, and states individually have an obligation not to aid or assist a state “which is committing atrocities day in and day out”.

“They have to stop those who are still transferring weapons [to Israel]… and also buying or purchasing military and security services from Israel must stop,” she told Al Jazeera.

Albanese said any trade with Israel must be “interrupted”, adding that diplomatic and political sanctions must also be applied.

“Whoever is not taking these steps is either responsible or completely indifferent to the plight of millions of Palestinians,” she noted.

The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said it bombed Sderot, Mefalsim and settlements around Gaza with a barrage of rockets.

Earlier, the Israeli Home Front Command reported that sirens sounded in Sderot and Mefalsim, while Israeli media reported that a rocket was intercepted from Gaza towards Sderot.

Israel’s Channel 12 reported that two rockets were fired towards Sderot and that it was being investigated whether they fell in an open area.

In central Gaza, a series of Israeli air attacks has struck homes near the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Rescue teams and family members are sifting through the smouldering rubble, searching for anyone who may be trapped.

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Israeli media outlet Haaretz is reporting that Knesset member Yitzhak Kroizer has been dismissed from active reserve duty after being photographed in a house in the south of Lebanon with graffiti behind him that reads “Office of MK Kroizer”.

The report added that the Israeli army transferred Kroizer to a reserve unit for public officials.

The Israeli military is quoted as saying that the graffiti “does not serve an operational need on the battlefield” and considered it a violation of protocol.

Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen says the “entire population” of northern Gaza is “in immediate danger of death”.

“We demand that Israel comply with the interim orders of the International Court of Justice (ICJ),” she posted on X. “Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups must release the hostages immediately and unconditionally.”

In January, the ICJ ruled that Israel must do everything in its power to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza and ensure UN-mandated investigators have “unimpeded access” to the enclave.

South Africa has since returned several times to the ICJ, arguing that Gaza’s desperate humanitarian situation demands new emergency measures.

In late May, the ICJ ordered Israel to immediately halt its offensive in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, a ruling Israel also ignored.

“Have me buried at the back corner of the house if the cemetery runs out of space.”

That was my grandfather Atiyah’s declared wish decades before the war on Gaza began in October last year. He knew, even then, that burying him after his death would be a challenge.

Since October 7, 2023, when Israel unleashed its continuing, relentless bombardment on the Gaza Strip, my grandfather’s health had been deteriorating. It got markedly worse during each Israeli ground invasion of Jabalia in northern Gaza, our home.

The siege on the northern part of the Strip, which has endured since the start of the war and has effectively cut the north off from the south, meant he never had the chance to recover between those deadly moments.

Read more here.

Earlier we reported that a Lebanese citizen was kidnapped from the Batroun area in the north of Lebanon at dawn today.

Lebanon’s caretaker PM Mikati instructed the foreign ministry to submit a complaint to the UN Security Council over the raid.

Mikati also reached out to the command of the UN peacekeeping mission which confirmed that it is conducting the necessary investigations and coordinating with the army on this matter.

The United Nations Children’s Fund has condemned the attack on the Sheikh Radwan Clinic in Gaza City, where children are receiving polio vaccinations, emphasising that all assaults on civilians and humanitarian infrastructure must cease immediately.

“Parents cannot be expected to bring their children out for a second dose of the vaccine at the risk of getting injured or worse,” UNICEF’s Rosalia Bollen told Al Jazeera in a statement. “Equally, health workers and other humanitarian staff cannot do their jobs in the midst of ongoing attacks.”

Bollen noted that the attack took place while a humanitarian pause was still in effect. She called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire, saying it was the only way to “end the suffering of civilians and save lives”.

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

• Israeli forces arrested 10 Palestinians during their raid on Fawwar camp in the Hebron Governorate in the southern occupied West Bank. Israeli army says Hezbollah commander killed in southern Lebanon.
• Israeli attacks target Beirut’s suburbs again as Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least 71 people were killed and 169 wounded on Friday.
• The WHO said six people, including four children, were wounded in an Israeli attack on a polio vaccination centre in Gaza.
• An Israeli military official says that naval commandos captured a “senior Hezbollah operative” in the coastal city of Batroun and brought him to Israel for investigation.