Al Jazeera reported that Israeli air raids have also targeted the Hadath, Burj al-Barajneh and Choueifat areas of Beirut’s southern suburbs. Elsewhere in Lebanon, two fishermen have been killed in the Israeli drone attack on the beach of Tyre city.
Israeli forces have intensified an all-day raid on the village of Kafr Abbush, located south of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa.
During their incursion, the forces stormed into dozens of homes and interrogated their inhabitants, Wafa said. They arrested two people, including a minor, according to the agency.
Since October 7, Israeli forces have carried out near-daily raids in the West Bank, often wrecking homes, roads and other infrastructure while arresting and holding Palestinians without charge.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s foreign policy chief has said that warrants by the International Criminal Court are binding for all of the bloc’s states.
Speaking at a conference in Cyprus, he said, “The members, the states who signed the Rome Convention, are obliged to implement the decision of the court. It is not optional.”
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban invited Netanyahu on Friday to visit the country but several other European nations said the Israeli prime minister would be detained if he set foot on their soil, following the issuing of an arrest warrant for him.
Reacting to Hungary’s decision, Borrell said: “What I can say is the arrest warrants issued by the court has to be implemented also by Hungary, also by Hungary, by all members of the European Union. And if they don’t, then there is a legal case of not fulfilment of the legal obligation.”
In the past hour, air attacks have escalated in the central area, particularly in Nuseirat refugee camp, where a mosque was hit.
Earlier in Bureij refugee camp, a group of civilians were also hit. We know that three people were killed, including a young child and their parents.
Two rockets were fired from the southern side of Deir el-Balah towards Israel, which announced that its Iron Done system intercepted them. We can now hear the sounds of Israeli fighter jets hovering far above.
Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is overwhelmed with patients. People are arriving to the emergency department every day, sometimes on an hourly basis.
Pro-Palestinian activists have disrupted a conference by the president of the Morgan Museum in Manhattan, protesting against his alleged ties to Israel and investments in Israeli institutions.
Videos posted online, which have been verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, showed activists chanting and distributing flyers that condemn “complicity in genocide” due to investments in manufacturing arms that are being used to kill Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.
