Hezbollah in Lebanon launches rocket attacks on Israel, IDF says.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, was killed this week in a firefight with Israeli forces, officials said.
The development comes as Israel continues intense air and ground campaigns against Hezbollah in Lebanon and against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The uptick in offensive operations came as Israeli leaders planned their response to Iran's latest ballistic missile attack.
The IDF has announced the death of a colonel, 41-year-old Ehsan Daxa, in fighting in northern Gaza on Sunday.
Daxa is one of the highest-ranking IDF officers to be killed in the war. He commanded the 401st "Iron Tracks" Brigade of the 162nd Division, the IDF said.
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At least 160 rockets fired by Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel on Sunday, Israel Defense Forces said, as sirens sounded across northwest Israel, including Haifa, the country's third largest city.
The IDF said the barrage of rockets occurred around 3 p.m. local time and that 30 projectiles crossed into Israel three minutes after they were launched.
No injuries or casualties have been reported. The IDF said some projectiles fell in the north and fire services were working to extinguish the fires that erupted from the attack.
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Doctors Without Borders is calling on Israeli forces to "immediately stop their attacks on hospitals in north Gaza," alleging that six of its staff are trapped in a Jabalia hospital without power and one was killed from shrapnel injuries that could not be adequately treated.
In a statement Saturday, the agency -- also known as MSF or Médecins Sans Frontières -- referred to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza and other medics on the ground as reporting that Israeli forces are besieging the three main hospitals in northern Gaza. MSF said 350 patients are trapped inside the hospitals, including patients who are pregnant and just underwent surgery.
"The ever-worsening escalation of violence and nonstop Israeli military operations that we have been witnessing over the past two weeks in northern Gaza have horrifying consequences,” MSF's emergency coordinator in Gaza said, adding, "This is purely and simply a collective punishment imposed on Palestinians in Gaza, who must choose between being forcibly displaced from the north or killed. We fear that this will not stop."
There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
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Israel killed 87 Palestinians in a Saturday night bombardment of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, the Hamas-run government media office in the strip reported.
Around 40 people were injured in the attacks, with many others reported missing and believed to be under rubble, officials said. Aid teams were working to reach the victims, the office added.
The Israel Defense Forces issued a statement disputing the media office's report.
The IDF claimed in a post on X that the toll was "exaggerated" and does not align with its analysis.
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