At least 55 people have been killed and 192 others injured across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
At least 25 towns and villages in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley came under heavy Israeli air attacks on Friday, killing dozens of people, according to local authorities.
Al Jazeera reports that the third phase of a postponed mass polio vaccination drive is scheduled to restart in Gaza, aid groups say, after the campaign stalled amid Israeli attacks and mass displacement of north Gaza’s population, which has been under military siege for almost one month.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,314 Palestinians and wounded 102,019 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 were taken captive.
In Lebanon, at least 2,897 people have been killed and 13,150 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began, with 30 people killed across the country in the past 24 hours, the Lebanese Health Ministry says.
