Israel pummels Gaza and Lebanon, killing dozens in latest wave of deadly airstrikes

The Israeli military launched waves of deadly airstrikes across Gaza and Lebanon on Friday, killing 25 people in the central Gaza Strip, according to the enclave's health authorities.

Israeli attacks across Lebanon's northeast killed at least two dozen people, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported.

It was another day of bloodshed both in Gaza, where Israel said it had targeted Hamas infrastructure in the area of the central Nuseirat refugee camp, and in Lebanon, where Israel stepped up airstrikes against Hizbollah in the northeast this week.

Officials from the Al Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza said they continued to receive bodies from a barrage of Israeli airstrikes on Nuseirat camp that began overnight, leaving 21 dead, including an 18-month-old and his 10-year-old sister.

Strikes on a motorcycle in Zuwaida and on a house in Deir Al Balah, also in central Gaza, on Friday killed four more people, the hospital officials said, bringing the overall toll to 25.

Israel's blistering offensive on the Gaza Strip has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians since Oct.7, 2023. Health officials say more than half of the dead are women and children.

The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Friday that a total of 55 people had been killed in the past 24 hours and that another 196 had been wounded.

Despite growing pressure from the United States and others in the international community for a cease-fire both in Gaza and Lebanon, Israel's air force launched attacks across Lebanon Friday, killing 24 people just in the country's northeast.

Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted building that was believed to have housed 20 people.

Lebanon's Heath Ministry said more than 2,800 people have been killed and 13,000 wounded since Oct.8, 2023, when Hizbollah began firing rockets almost daily into Israel, drawing retaliation.

Associated Press