Israel’s military sent off air strikes across southern Lebanon and Hezbollah answered with an enormous robot and rocket assault, saying the flood was likewise in counter for the Israeli military’s killing of its commandant Fuad Shukr in Beirut in July.
The escalation occurred as the Reuters news agency reported that mediation talks for a ceasefire in Gaza had not made any headway. Refering to a Palestinian authority, it said a Hamas designation that was in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, has withdrawn the city.
As Israeli tanks and bulldozers advanced on the central city of Deir el-Balah, more than 100,000 people were forced to flee over two days, killing at least 71 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In Israel’s war on Gaza, at least 40,334 people have died and 93,356 have been injured. On October 7, the Hamas-led attacks in Israel killed an estimated 1,139 people.
