Israel's heavy bombardment of Gaza makes global news as UN peacekeepers strike again in Lebanon

Famine warnings have been raised again in northern Gaza as residents say they have not received aid since the beginning of the month. The UN World Food Program said no food aid has reached the north since October 1. An estimated 400,000 people remain there.

The Israeli military renewed its offensive in northern Gaza almost a week ago, while also intensifying air and ground operations against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Amid Israel's war with Hezbollah, a senior UN official, Carl Schau, told the Associated Press that he was concerned that Lebanon's ports and airports would be left without service. More than 1 million people were displaced.

Israel's military said Hezbollah fired more than 300 projectiles on Yom Kippur, the holiest and holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The military also said it had killed 50 militants in Lebanon. Neither side's claims could be verified.

Lebanon's Health Ministry said Israeli airstrikes hit several areas in southern and eastern Lebanon on Saturday. Nine people were killed in the northeastern village of Mysra. Four people were killed in an apartment building on the outskirts of Barja, south of Beirut. Rayak and Tal Chiha hospitals in the Bekaa Valley were damaged. Eight people were injured in Nabatieh.

According to Lebanon's Ministry of Health, the total number of people killed in last year's conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon has now reached 2,255. More than 1,400 people have been killed since mid-September. It is unclear how many fighters there were.

We will stand by the Lebanese people and the Palestinian people in this difficult situation, said Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf while visiting the site of the Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Saturday.

Some Gaza residents are trapped

In northern Gaza, residents told the AP that many are trapped in their homes and shelters and that supplies are running low while bodies are not collected in the streets because bombings have hampered emergency responses.

Those who rushed to the site of the latest deadly airstrike on the Jabalia urban refugee camp found a 20-meter-deep crater where a house once stood.

At least 20 bodies have been recovered and others are likely under the rubble, emergency services officials said.

In another part of Jabalia, two brothers were killed and a woman and a newborn son were injured in an attack on a house, authorities said. Emergency services official Fares Abu Hamza said at least four people, including a woman, were killed in the afternoon attack on a house.

The Israeli military said it had killed more than 20 militants in the Jabalia area over the past day.

Military spokesman Avichay Adrai told people in Jabalia and parts of Gaza City to move south to Israel's designated humanitarian zone because Israel plans to use heavy force and will continue to do so for a long time. .

Israel has repeatedly returned to parts of Gaza as Hamas and other militants regrouped. The war has devastated large areas of Gaza and displaced almost 90% of its 2.3 million inhabitants, often multiple times.

Once again, some families gathered on foot, in carts pulled by donkeys or in vehicles that piled up the rubble. Others refused to go.

“It’s like the first day of war,” said Ahmed Abu Goneim, a resident of Jabalia. The occupiers are doing everything they can to uproot us. But we won't give up.

The 24-year-old said Israeli warplanes and drones attacked several neighboring homes last week. He counted 15 relatives and neighbors, including four women and five children under the age of 3, dead in neighboring homes. He said there were dead people on the road.

Hamza Sharif, who lives with his family in a school shelter in Jabalia, described continuous shelling, day and night.

He said the shelter hasn't received help since the beginning of the month and that families will soon run out of supplies.

Food is running out

The World Food Program said it is unclear how long the limited food supplies previously distributed to northern Gaza will last.

The UN's independent investigator on the right to food last month accused Israel of carrying out a hunger strike against Palestinians, which Israel denies.

Israel's offensive in Gaza began after a Hamas attack on October 7, when militants invaded Israel, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping around 250 others.

More than 42,000 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli offensive, according to local health authorities, who did not specify between fighters and civilians. Gaza's Health Ministry said hospitals had received the bodies of 49 people killed in the past 24 hours.