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Deadly Israeli strikes hit Lebanon and Gaza on Saturday as the US secretary of state headed back to Israel aiming to finalise a Gaza truce agreement, which diplomats say could help avert a wider regional conflagration.

Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon killed 10 people including a Syrian woman and her two children.

The strike was among the deadliest in southern Lebanon since the onset of near-daily exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah following the start of the Gaza war in October.

Israel’s military said it struck a Hezbollah weapons storage facility.

In Hamas-run Gaza, civil defence rescuers said an Israeli air strike killed 15 people from a single Palestinian family. The deaths in Al-Zawaida, central Gaza, added to a toll that the territory’s health ministry says exceeds 40,000.

“We are in the morgue seeing indescribable scenes of limbs and severed heads and children who are dismembered,” said Omar al-Dreemli, a relative.

The Gaza war between Israel and Hamas Palestinian militants has displaced most of the territory’s population, destroyed much of the housing and other infrastructure, and left diseases spreading.

The United Nations on Friday appealed for seven-day pauses in the fighting so it could vaccinate children against polio, after the Palestinian health ministry reported Gaza’s first polio case in 25 years.

“We are closer than we have ever been” to a ceasefire in the Gaza war, US President Joe Biden said on Friday, though previous optimism during months of on-off talks has so far proven futile.

On Saturday a senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, said Biden’s comment is an “illusion”.

The stakes have significantly risen since the killings in quick succession in late July of Fuad Shukr, a top operations chief of Hezbollah in south Lebanon, and Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh.

Their deaths led to vows of vengeance from Hezbollah, Iran and other Tehran-backed groups in the region which blamed Israel.

• Bridging gaps –

On Friday Hezbollah released a polished video appearing to show its fighters trucking large missiles through tunnels at an underground facility.

Israel claimed the killing of Shukr, in a strike on south Beirut, but has not commented directly on the killing of Haniyeh while he visited Tehran.

Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel that triggered the war resulted in the deaths of 1,198 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.

Militants also seized 251 hostages, 111 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 39 the military says are dead. More than 100 were freed during a one-week truce in November.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will leave on Saturday for Israel and seek to “conclude the agreement for a ceasefire and release of hostages and detainees”, the State Department said.


With a deal “now in sight, no one in the region should take actions to undermine this process,” Biden said.

Egyptian, Qatari and US mediators are working to finalise details of a framework ceasefire and hostage-release deal initially outlined by Biden in May. He said Israel had proposed it.

In a joint statement after two days of talks in Qatar, the mediators said they presented both sides with a proposal that “bridges remaining gaps”.

Talks aiming to secure a deal are to resume in Cairo “before the end of next week”, they said.

Hamas did not attend the Doha talks. An official of the Islamist movement, Osama Hamdan, told AFP on Thursday the group would join if the meeting set a timetable for implementing what Hamas had already agreed to.

A prospective cessation of hostilities has centred around a phased deal beginning with an initial truce.

On Friday, officials told AFP that Hamas will not accept “new conditions” from Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Tuesday had detailed its conditions for a truce, including “a veto on certain prisoners” being released from its jails.

• Netanyahu blamed –

Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi of Jordan, a Western ally, blamed Netanyahu for “impeding attempts to finalise” a deal and urged pressure on him.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Saturday met his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne in Cairo for talks on “containing the escalation and efforts to reach a ceasefire,” Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman said.

Netanyahu has denied being the obstacle to a deal, blaming Hamas.

On Friday, the Palestinian health ministry reported an unvaccinated 10-month-old child in Gaza had been diagnosed with highly infectious polio.

The announcement came hours after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for two seven-day breaks in the Gaza war to vaccinate more than 640,000 children against type 2 poliovirus, which was first detected in the territory’s wastewater in June.

As truce talks took place, thousands of civilians were on the move again after the Israeli military issued fresh evacuation orders ahead of imminent military action in central-southern Gaza.

“During each round of negotiations, they exert pressure by forcing evacuations and committing massacres,” said Issa Murad, a Palestinian displaced to Deir el-Balah.

Over the past day troops expanded their operations in the Khan Yunis area of Gaza’s south, including by “eliminating” militants who had fired munitions toward Nirim, just outside Gaza, Israel’s military said on Saturday.

AFP.

Source: https://punchng.com/Israeli-strikes-hit-Lebanon-as-mediators-push-Gaza-truce

Hamas go collect blames tire. Don't play . Israel mad o

Israel, antidote to terrorism

Isreal is not interested in any delusional peace deal...Isreal is interested in crushing the axis of evil led by Iran!

Okay

clockwisereport:
Israel, antidote to terrorism

Unapologetically 😂

Israel why naaa

ewedunamala:
Israel why naaa

Check the meanings of 'Rules of Engagement' in Law of War..........

I can only say "more Grace and Favour to Israel", and I hope that one day, Iran will be dismantled, atleast it may help to curb terrorism world wide.

I dedicate WotoWoto season to Lebanon.


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They won't say they were not warned

Nobody should come here and scream at Israel. I strongly believe Hamas had this all planned out when they attacked Israel in October. Or were they expecting a pat on the back from Israel? When I hear what Hamas does to Israel I don’t pity Israel cos it’s part of the engagements in war. But when Hamas deals Israel a blow and you celebrate then cry when Israel retaliates you need to have your head examined.

Can't this people make peace with Israel rather than allowing Israel use them as target practice

All hail israel... God's own country

how i wish Nigerian government can deal decisively with those bandits and terrorist with this strength and firepower.

God of Israel is at work.

DONT EVER MESS WITH ISRAEL YOU SONS OF A PAEDOPHILE

Israel should at least chill dis time around, it's really becoming somehow now daht civilians are being caught up in dis whole war of a thing.

Israel is the singular cause of the never ending Middle-East crises.

Imagine a refugee people who lost their homes in Europe, but were given the opportunity by the British to resettle among the Arabs of Palestine, and since then there has been no peace.

Death to all terrorists and their lovers all over the world.

Throwback:
Israel is the singular cause of the never ending Middle-East crises.

Imagine a refugee people who lost their homes in Europe, but were given the opportunity by the British to resettle among the Arabs of Palestine, and since then there has been no peace.

Keep shut and shove your irrelevant opinion into those small empty wretched pockets of yours!!!

Exactly what I will do to Bokoharam if become president I will destroy all the useless place they operate

There are many pro Palestinians news on Nairaland that never made it to frontpage ,says much about Nairaland's mods sentiments.

Also ,the invincibility of Israeli army ends when US and NATO withdraw their supports .

Imagine the hypocrisy of US,NATO and other Arabian countries when they look other side when Isreal became aggressive,engaging in genocides and violating other countries border integrity but have been on Iran's neck since they planned to retaliate that Iran should back down ,to the extent of sending 1/3 of US Naval force to prevent Iranian retaliation.

There have been protest eruption in Tel Aviv since to presurize Israeli government to sign peace pact in Gaza but it never made frontpage .

Israel started fighting war since the days of Abraham, Abraham was a warlord who use his security guards to defeat kings that attacked Sodom and Gormorah. When Israel was returning from Egypt to the promised land, they use war to annexe the lands. Don't joke with them.

Throwback:
Israel is the singular cause of the never ending Middle-East crises.

Imagine a refugee people who lost their homes in Europe, but were given the opportunity by the British to resettle among the Arabs of Palestine, and since then there has been no peace.

Arabs cleansed Jews from their homeland through jihad: Jews came back to claim what is there. Is that an abomination to you ?

I so much love Israel. They are the only one that understands the language of Islamic terrorists u like Nigeria that pampers them

Hamas still has mouth to talk. Why are this mediators pushing for a ceasefire and peace deal. Hamas needs to be exterminated once and for all. Period. Don't meddle with terrorists.

oluwaseyi0:
Can't this people make peace with Israel rather than allowing Israel use them as target practice

Islam by pedophile khaibar longthroat poisoned Muhammad is the cursed reason why there will never be peace there as it's goat is to totally wipe off all Jews and Christians worldwide.

BrighterSyde:
Nobody should come here and scream at Israel. I strongly believe Hamas had this all planned out when they attacked Israel in October. Or were they expecting a pat on the back from Israel? When I hear what Hamas does to Israel I don’t pity Israel cos it’s part of the engagements in war. But when Hamas deals Israel a blow and you celebrate then cry when Israel retaliates you need to have your head examined.

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Osanoghodua1:
Israel started fighting war since the days of Abraham, Abraham was a warlord who use his security guards to defeat kings that attacked Sodom and Gormorah. When Israel was returning from Egypt to the promised land, they use war to annexe the lands. Don't joke with them.

guess you never heard of Persian Empire or the king of kings Cyrus ,a Gentile king that rebuilt Isreal. Every countries on earth have been fighting one war or another since inception.

Enough with the race supremacy.

Don't waste naija resources on fighting bokoharam, just fight the root cause of bokoharam which is corruption, if you fight corruption to the least then watch bokoharam vanish.

JAPAHTML:
Exactly what I will do to Bokoharam if become president I will destroy all the useless place they operate