The Israeli assault has decimated Gaza and killed more than 43000 people, Palestinian authorities say.
In a separate assault on Lebanese Hezbollah, a Hamas ally which has fired thousands of rockets into Israel killing dozens of people over the past year, Israeli forces have bombarded parts of Beirut and areas of the south of the country. The Israeli assault has killed more than 2700 people, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
NO END IN SIGHT
Israel’s military and intelligence operations have decapitated the leadership of both Hamas and Hezbollah, including Hezbollah leader and Iran ally, Hassan Nasrallah.
Yet Israel’s wars show no signs of slowing.
Israel presses on with assaults on Gaza despite the killing this month of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a mastermind of the Oct 7 attacks whose death was top priority in the war. Israel says 365 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza over the past year, 19 of them since the start of October.
US mediators are working on a proposal to halt hostilities between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, starting with a 60 day ceasefire, two sources told Reuters, but Israel pressed its offensive, bombarding Lebanon’s eastern city of Baalbek.
As families fled the Beit Lahiya area last week, parents wheeled children in prams and wooden carts and dragged suitcases through the mud.
Dalia al-Kharawat, a mother-of-five from Jabalia, begged locals in Gaza City to let her stay and now sleeps in the open air car park of a destroyed building with her children.
“When we need to sleep, we go here in the rubble, the sand, the broken glass. There is no place at the school shelters,” she said.
