U.N. chief Antonio Guterres on Friday (October 11, 2024) warned Israel there must be no repeat of an “intolerable” incident in which its forces fired on peacekeepers in Lebanon, wounding two.
2 peacekeepers injured after its base was hit by new explosions, says UNIFIL.
Israel slammed a U.N. probe which concluded it was deliberately seeking to destroy healthcare in the Gaza Strip and abusing Palestinian detainees, branding the findings “outrageous”.
Meanwhile, Iran said it is “fully prepared to defend its sovereignty” if its arch-foe Israel attacks as it has threatened to do in response to a barrage of about 200 missiles.
What actually happened
On Friday (October 11, 2024), Israel’s army said its forces killed Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad’s top commander for the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
It said that Mohammad Abdullah was “eliminated” on Thursday (October 10, 2024) when Israeli aircraft struck the camp near the northern city of Tulkarm. An additional “terrorist” was killed in the raid, it added.
According to the Israeli army, Abdullah was the successor of Muhammad Jabber, also known as Abu Shujaa, who was killed in an Israeli strike in late August.
In a statement released overnight, the Palestinian health ministry said it had been informed of the deaths. The names of the deceased were “Mohammad Iyad Mohammad Abdullah (20) and Awad Jamil Saqr Omar (31),” following the air strike.
Hours after two Israeli strikes hit Beirut on Friday (October 11, 2024), rescue workers searched through the rubble of a collapsed building. The strike killed at least 22 people and wounding dozens.
The air raid was the deadliest attack on central Beirut in over a year of the war. It hit two residential buildings in neighborhoods that have swelled with displaced people fleeing Israeli bombardment elsewhere in the country.
Israeli troops opened fire at three positions held by U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Thursday (October 10, 2024), according to a U.N. source who was not immediately able to specify the type of fire.
The source said one of the locations fired at was UNIFIL’s main base at Naqoura.
