JERUSALEM: Rescuers and medical officials said that 77 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria on Sunday.
Rescuers and health officials reported that Israeli attacks in the northern part of Gaza killed 30 people, including 13 children.
According to Gaza’s civil defense service, the first strike on Sunday struck a home in Jabalia, Gaza, killing at least 25 people—13 of them children—and wounded over 30 more.
Five individuals were murdered in another hit on Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood, and more are still unaccounted for, according to civil defense. It stated that several civilians were still beneath the debris.
There are 30 dead in Jabalia, 43,603 dead in Gaza, 38 dead in Lebanon, and 9 dead in an attack near a Syrian shrine.
The region is under “siege,” according to the UN.
According to data from Gaza’s health ministry, which the UN regards as trustworthy, Israel’s military attacks have killed 43,603 individuals in the enclave.
Top US officials made it “clear” to Israel’s leadership that improvements must be done “to see that the level of assistance making it into Gaza comes back up from the very, very low levels that it is at today,” according to State Department spokesman Matthew Miller at the time.
Famine in northern Gaza is approaching, according to a UN-backed study released earlier on Saturday. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report, the number of aid shipments permitted to enter Gaza was now lower than it has been since October 2023.
In Lebanon, 38 people were slain.
According to the health ministry, Israeli attacks killed at least 38 people in Lebanon on Sunday, including 23 in a raid north of the capital Beirut.
After nearly a year of tit-for-tat gunfights with the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Israel has shifted its attention northward toward Lebanon, increasing airstrikes and deploying ground forces. The Lebanese organization claimed to be supporting Hamas.
According to Lebanon’s health ministry, 23 people, including three children, were killed in an Israeli hit on the village of Almat, north of Beirut, on Sunday. Israeli attacks killed at least 12 civilians in the Baalbek region and three rescues in the southern part of Lebanon.
According to Lebanon’s health ministry, since the start of the cross-border exchanges, more than 3,130 people have died in Lebanon, the majority since September 23.
Attack on Syria
Nine individuals were killed in an Israeli strike on an apartment in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, according to a war monitor.
According to Rami Abdel Rahman, the president of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Israeli strike in the Sayyida Zeinab district killed nine people and injured fourteen others, including women and children.
“The Israeli attack targeted (Hezbollah) figures in the building where Lebanese families and members of the movement live,” the Britain-based monitor, which has a network of contacts inside Syria, has previously stated.
An undetermined number of persons were killed and injured in an Israeli attack on a residential structure in the Sayyida Zeinab neighborhood, which is home to a significant Shia shrine, according to Syria’s official Sana news agency.
Israel has attacked Syrian residential buildings and airports with hundreds of airstrikes since 2011.
As Israel persisted in carrying out lethal attacks in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, Qatar withdrew its efforts to negotiate a truce in Gaza, claiming that neither Israel nor Hamas were sincere in their negotiations.
Majed Al-Ansari, the spokesperson for Doha’s foreign ministry, stated in a statement that “Qatar would resume those efforts… when the parties show their willingness and seriousness.”
According to a spokeswoman, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had earlier stated his intention to utilize the final weeks of his term to push for an end to the hostilities in Gaza and Lebanon.
In early November, UN agency leaders described the closure of north Gaza as denying life-saving supplies and basic help.
