Israel has targeted Hezbollah with an airstrike in Syria. Earlier, Israeli forces stormed a school as they deepened their operations in northern Gaza, according to Reuters. Listen to the latest The World With Richard Engel And Yalda Hakim as you scroll.
Monday 21 October 2024 23:38, UK
That’s all for our live coverage of the conflicts in the Middle East this evening.
Before we go, here is a recap of the key developments over the course of the day:
Israel targets Hezbollah’s finances
Israel’s military targeted dozens of bank branches last night.
It claimed the al Qard al Hassan financial institution helped Hezollah pay fighters and buy weapons.
Sky News international correspondent Alex Rossi reported live from the site of one of the strikes, describing the devastation it had caused.
While Israel tries to justify its target, the bank branches are civilian infrastructure and often in the same buildings as apartments.
Israel also claimed to have killed Hezbollah’s head of money transfers, in an attack in Syria.
Syrian state media described it as a “guided missile attack” on a car and reports said that two people had died and three others were injured.
Palestinians ’rounded up’ in northern Gaza
Elsewhere, shocking footage emerged from Jabalia, in the north of Gaza, where Palestinians appeared to be being “rounded up”, according to reports.
Drone footage showed hundreds of people being lined up among the rubble and debris.
Further footage appears to show men being split up from women and children and ID cards seemingly being inspected.
Israeli operations have deepened in the area in recent weeks and one person in Jabalia told Sky News’ Adam Parsons Israel had attacked it daily for 17 days straight.
In other developments:
Video captured the moment mourners in northern Israel took cover in a cemetery as sirens wailed amid a rocket attack.
The strike came from Lebanon and anti-missile interceptions could be seen trailing through the blue sky.
People had been attending the funeral of an Israeli man killed over the weekend.
Watch the full video below…
Iran told the UN that US President Joe Biden has signalled his approval for an Israeli attack on them.
Tehran claimed that Mr Biden had signalled his “tacit approval and explicit support for Israel’s unlawful military aggression against Iran,” the country’s mission to the UN said, citing remarks the US leader had made in Germany last week.
“The United States will bear full responsibility for its role in instigating, inciting and enabling any acts of aggression by Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran … as well as for the catastrophic consequences on regional and international peace and security,” Iran’s UN mission said in a letter to the UN Security Council.
Mr Biden also told reporters on his visit to Berlin that he has an understanding of how and when Israel will respond to the missile attacks by Iran.
He declined to elaborate.
A young girl carried her injured sister on her shoulders, walking barefoot for more than 2km in Gaza before they found help.
The youngster was hit by a car, but after over a year of Israeli attacks, the Gazan health system is crippled beyond use for many.
A Palestinian journalist came across the sisters and gave them a lift to the al Bureij camp in central Gaza.
According to an Anadolu Agency translation, journalist Alaa Hamouda, who is recording in the video below, asks the girl why she is carrying her sister.
She says that her sister has been “hit by a car” and they are seeking medical treatment, adding that she has been carrying her for “over an hour”.
One child was among the four people killed in an Israeli strike near a Beirut hospital, Lebanon’s health ministry has said.
Three adults were also killed, and 24 others injured – as we reported in our 9.52pm post – in the attack near the Rafik Hariri University Hospital.
While Israel said its campaign is aimed at driving out Hezbollah fighters from border regions, 1.2million people have been displaced from their homes in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s authorities.
Speaking on The World With Yalda Hakim, Sky News correspondent Adam Parsons described the “extraordinary scenes” and “dreadful attacks” in parts of the Middle East today.
He said it had been “another pretty grim day across Gaza”, with the violence focused on Jabalia in the north, where scenes of people being “rounded up” emerged (see our 7.11pm post).
Parsons said one person in Jabalia told them it had been attacked by Israel on 17 successive days.
He said:
“What we understand is that men have been separated from women and children… exactly what is happeneing to those people subsequently is a matter of dispute.
“Israel says these people are being told they are in a very dangerous place, that Jabalia is a place the IDF is going through… as they search for Hamas terrorist infrastructure and these people are being guided to safety.
“There have been other reports coming out of Jabalia that have been focused on maltreatment, particularly of the men.
“Meanwhile, attacks on Jabalia have been incessant and today airstrikes hit a number of buildings – including a school that was being used as a shelter – leading to very serious injuries and fatalities.
“Once the centre of the fruit trade, it [Jabalia] is now the absolute focus of Israel and the subject of repeated and very heavy attacks.”
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At least four people have been killed and 24 injured after an Israeli strike near the Rafik Hariri University Hospital.
In our 8.54pm post, we reported on strikes on Beirut’s largest hospital.
Initially, the number of people killed was said to be three, with tens injured – as we covered in our previous post.
However, that has already risen to four dead and 24 wounded, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.
This number could rise further.
At least three people have been killed and tens of others injured in an Israeli strike on Beirut, Reuters have reported.
Citing a senior security source, they said the attack targeted a Beirut neighborhood near the capital’s main government hospital.
It’s not yet clear which hospital was closest to the strike.
We’ll bring you more on this as it comes in…
A scuffle broke out between refugees from southern Lebanon, and police who were trying to evict them from a hotel in Beirut.
Israel has targeted large parts of southern Lebanon in its war with Hezbollah.
This has forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes and flee elsewhere – either north in their own country, or elsewhere, for example across the border and into Syria.
However, at a hotel in Beirut, dozens of police arrived to evict a number of the refugees, leading to clashes with officers.
A strike has reportedly hit a hospital car park in Beirut.
The attack appeared to land near the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, according to Reuters, quoting a hospital source.
This comes as the IDF has issued a number of evacuation orders for southern Beirut (see our 8.46pm post).
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