Israel-Gaza-Lebanon updates: IDF orders evacuations in Beirut as huge blast hits city
Over 1,000 people in Lebanon have been killed in the last two weeks.
Israel's Lebanon operation continues as leaders consider their response to Iran's long-range attack on Tuesday, in which hundreds of missiles were fired into the country, according to Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations.
Iran said the unprecedented attack was retaliation for a wave of assassinations carried out by Israel over the last several weeks targeting Hezbollah, including leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Most of the missiles were intercepted, but "several hits were identified, and the damage is being assessed," an Israeli security official said.
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28 health care workers killed in past 24 hours in Lebanon: WHO
Twenty-eight health care workers have been killed in Lebanon in the past 24 hours amid Israel's bombardment, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
"Health and humanitarian workers, including WHO staff, have done incredible work under very difficult and dangerous conditions with limited supplies. And yet health care continues to come under attack," WHO Director Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
In southern Lebanon, 37 health facilities have been closed, he said. In Beirut, three hospitals have been "forced to fully evacuate staff and patients" and two others were partially evacuated, he said.
"Many health workers are not reporting to duty as they fled the areas where they work due to bombardment," the director said. "This is severely limiting the provision of mass trauma management and continuity of health services."
Emirates cancels some flights in the Middle East
Emirates is canceling all regular flights to and from Iraq, Iran and Jordan on Friday and Saturday "due to regional unrest," the airline said.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration also issued a Notice to Air Missions on Thursday urging "airlines and pilots to use caution when flying in Israeli airspace."
-ABC News' Sam Sweeney and Ayesha Ali
46 people killed in Lebanon in past 24 hours, officials say
At least 46 people have been killed and 85 injured over the past 24 hours in Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, as cross-border fighting between Hezbollah and Israel continued Thursday.
Overall, at least 1,974 people have been killed and 9,384 injured in recent days amid the increased fighting between Israel and Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.
In the last two days, about 110 airstrikes and shelling were recorded in Lebanon, "mostly concentrated in the south and the southern suburb of Beirut," according to a Lebanese government situation report released on Thursday.
More than 45 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into northern Israel so far on Thursday, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon continued Thursday, according to multiple Hezbollah statements and warnings from Israeli forces to evacuate certain villages in southern Lebanon.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Ghazi Balkiz
Israeli forces claim killing of Hezbollah member behind Majdal Shams attack
The Israel Defense Forces said they killed a Hezbollah member, Khider al-Shaebia, in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday.
The IDF said al-Shaebia was responsible for the July attack in Majdal Shams, a town in the Golan Heights, that killed 12 children playing soccer.
Hezbollah denied responsibility at the time for the attack.
The IDF said al-Shaebia was also responsible for "hundreds of rocket and anti-tank missile launches at IDF posts in the area of Har Dov, Mount Hermon, and the northern Golan Heights."
-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Ghazi Balkiz