Live: At least seven killed in Israeli air strikes on Lebanon’s Tyre

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Lebanon’s health ministry on Saturday said that seven people including two children were killed in Israeli strikes on the southern city of Tyre a day earlier, with rescuers still searching for missing people under the rubble. Read our liveblog for the latest on the war in the Middle East.

SUMMARY

  • Israeli air strikes overnight hit a school and tents housing displaced people in Gaza, killing at least 14 people, including women and children, Gaza’s civil defence agency said.
  • Lebanon’s health ministry said Saturday seven people including two children were killed in Israeli strikes on the southern city of Tyre a day earlier, with rescuers still searching for missing people under the rubble.
  • Several Syrian soldiers were injured in an Israeli air “aggression” in the vicinity of the city of Al-Safira near Aleppo and Idlib, state media reported early on Saturday.
  • Lebanese state media said Israeli air strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs late on Friday shortly after Israel’s military warned residents to leave parts of the area, a bastion of Hezbollah militants.
  • The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says at least 43,552 people have been killed in more than 13 months of war in the devastated enclave.
  • 1.2 million displaced in Lebanon, including 11, 000 pregnant women, are facing a health crisis, thousands of which are now fleeing to the Syrian border in hopes of finding medical support.
  • As Israeli strikes continue to exacerbate a health crisis in Lebanon, pharmacies have been forced to close.
  • Israel rejected on Saturday a group of global food security experts’ warning of famine in parts of northern Gaza where it is waging war against Palestinian militant group Hamas.
  • Air sirens were activated on Saturday in central Israel following a hostile aircraft infiltration, with details currently under review, the Israeli military said.

France 24

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