Israeli jets attacked southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people, including the city’s mayor, Lebanese officials said.
Hezbollah’s interim leader Sheikh Naim Kassem declared on Tuesday that the Lebanese militant group would step up attacks against Israel in response to an Israeli airstrike on Monday against an apartment building in northern Lebanon that killed at least 22 people. . Israel said it had attacked a target belonging to Hezbollah, but the United Nations called for an independent investigation.
Israel has stepped up its campaign against Hezbollah in recent weeks, after a year of almost daily cross-border gunfire.
It has been more than a year since Hamas-led militants punched holes in Israel’s security fence and breached it, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping another 250. Israel’s Gaza offensive has killed to more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. that do not distinguish combatants from civilians. The war has destroyed large areas of Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population of 2.3 million people.
In northern Gaza, Israel has been waging an air and ground campaign in Jabaliya for more than a week, leaving families trapped in their shelters.
president of the united states joe biden Israel’s administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it allows into Gaza in the next 30 days or risk losing access to US weapons funding. Israel said on Wednesday it had allowed 50 trucks of food aid into northern Gaza.
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