Israel-Gaza-Lebanon updates: Netanyahu calls UN troops Hezbollah 'human shields'

U.N. peacekeepers claim IDF tanks breached their base in southern Lebanon.

ByLeah Sarnoff, David Brennan, Meredith Deliso, and Ivan Pereira
Last Updated: October 13, 2024, 5:51 PM EDT

The Israel Defense Forces continued intense air and ground campaigns against Hezbollah in Lebanon and against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The uptick in offensive operations came days after Israel marked the anniversary of Hamas' Oct. 7 assault and as Israeli leaders planned their response to last week's Iranian ballistic missile attack.

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Oct 11, 2024, 4:17 PM EDT

Damage reported after 2 drones cross from Lebanon into Israel: IDF

Two drones crossed from Lebanon into Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said after sirens sounded in central Israel.

One of the drones was "successfully intercepted," while a building in the Herzliya municipality was damaged, the IDF said. No injuries have been reported so far, it said.

There are power outages in several neighborhoods in Herzliya, a city in the northern Tel Aviv district of Israel that's home to about 100,000 people.

-ABC News' Dorit Long and Clark Bentson

Oct 11, 2024, 3:28 PM EDT

2 Lebanese soldiers killed in Israeli strike in Kafra, army says

Two Lebanese soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike in Kafra in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese army said in a post on X Friday.

Nearly 60 airstrikes were recorded in various parts of Lebanon over the past 24 hours, largely concentrated in the south, according to a situation report from the Lebanese prime minister's office on Friday.

Sixty people were killed and another 168 injured in the past 24 hours in Lebanon, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said Friday. Since the beginning of the increased fighting in mid-September, 2,229 people have been killed and 10,380 others injured, it said.

-ABC News' Ghazi Balkiz

Oct 11, 2024, 3:28 PM EDT

Sirens go off in central Israel for 'hostile aircraft infiltration': IDF

Sirens went off in several areas of central Israel "regarding a hostile aircraft infiltration," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Friday.

"Interception attempts were conducted. The details are under review," the IDF said.

-ABC News' Clark Bentson and Dorit Long

Oct 11, 2024, 3:22 PM EDT

2 missions to northern Gaza denied, WHO says

Two World Health Organization missions to northern Gaza were "impeded and denied" on Friday, according to Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The team was "unable to carry out the medical evacuation of patients" from three hospitals in northern Gaza "due to delays of over 10 hours at checkpoints," Ghebreyesus said in a post on X.

"This week seven WHO missions to northern Gaza were denied or impeded," Ghebreyesus said.

Doctors Without Borders said "thousands" of people are trapped in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Israeli forces attack the area.

"Israeli forces issued evacuation orders on 7 October in Jabalia camp while carrying out attacks at the same time, preventing people from leaving the area safely. Forced evacuations of homes and bombing of neighborhoods by the Israeli forces is turning north Gaza into uninhabitable ruins," the organization said on X.

-ABC News' Ellie Kaufman

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