Berliner Boersenzeitung - Deadly strikes on Gaza, Lebanon as Israel faces aid deadline

EUR -
AED 3.850499
AFN 71.008773
ALL 98.203623
AMD 408.181205
ANG 1.878426
AOA 957.117815
ARS 1052.802845
AUD 1.611799
AWG 1.889601
AZN 1.78073
BAM 1.95685
BBD 2.104369
BDT 124.546819
BGN 1.955321
BHD 0.395093
BIF 3078.681071
BMD 1.048322
BND 1.404767
BOB 7.242022
BRL 6.068274
BSD 1.042269
BTN 88.462435
BWP 14.238911
BYN 3.410895
BYR 20547.119472
BZD 2.100867
CAD 1.464763
CDF 3009.733788
CHF 0.933259
CLF 0.036948
CLP 1019.505987
CNY 7.59717
CNH 7.598032
COP 4601.873352
CRC 530.889885
CUC 1.048322
CUP 27.780544
CVE 110.939365
CZK 25.31071
DJF 185.603117
DKK 7.458186
DOP 62.814299
DZD 140.452152
EGP 52.010209
ERN 15.724836
ETB 127.59287
FJD 2.383151
FKP 0.827459
GBP 0.834234
GEL 2.872224
GGP 0.827459
GHS 16.558655
GIP 0.827459
GMD 74.431168
GNF 8983.905538
GTQ 8.090178
GYD 219.26283
HKD 8.156945
HNL 26.338382
HRK 7.477955
HTG 136.814706
HUF 410.177472
IDR 16634.465696
ILS 3.851683
IMP 0.827459
INR 88.359061
IQD 1365.358559
IRR 44108.165823
ISK 144.899116
JEP 0.827459
JMD 166.040664
JOD 0.743572
JPY 161.920737
KES 135.495088
KGS 90.983275
KHR 4196.291327
KMF 495.32971
KPW 943.489782
KRW 1470.40793
KWD 0.322684
KYD 0.868583
KZT 520.409126
LAK 22893.719185
LBP 93333.853984
LKR 303.348533
LRD 189.169904
LSL 18.807949
LTL 3.095423
LVL 0.634119
LYD 5.089828
MAD 10.54339
MDL 19.010562
MGA 4864.702709
MKD 61.551564
MMK 3404.910334
MNT 3562.199534
MOP 8.356543
MRU 41.470644
MUR 49.09263
MVR 16.206881
MWK 1807.304094
MXN 21.343897
MYR 4.667134
MZN 66.998095
NAD 18.807949
NGN 1763.687131
NIO 38.350941
NOK 11.598951
NPR 140.756858
NZD 1.793396
OMR 0.403607
PAB 1.048071
PEN 3.95212
PGK 4.196291
PHP 61.870958
PKR 289.43114
PLN 4.324697
PYG 8136.52045
QAR 3.822234
RON 4.9767
RSD 117.002216
RUB 109.041694
RWF 1422.776888
SAR 3.936062
SBD 8.788669
SCR 15.763705
SDG 630.565511
SEK 11.518181
SGD 1.412426
SHP 0.827459
SLE 23.827917
SLL 21982.801994
SOS 595.625233
SRD 37.209173
STD 21698.157582
SVC 9.120067
SYP 2633.941386
SZL 18.801446
THB 36.275119
TJS 11.161648
TMT 3.669128
TND 3.32964
TOP 2.455279
TRY 36.262506
TTD 7.078798
TWD 34.040064
TZS 2778.054341
UAH 43.118956
UGX 3872.539951
USD 1.048322
UYU 44.570933
UZS 13371.173597
VES 49.410144
VND 26648.355968
VUV 124.458945
WST 2.926487
XAF 656.315372
XAG 0.034032
XAU 0.00039
XCD 2.833144
XDR 0.79284
XOF 656.315372
XPF 119.331742
YER 262.001981
ZAR 18.935062
ZMK 9436.158367
ZMW 28.791996
ZWL 337.559392
  • JRI

    -0.0200

    13.21

    -0.15%

  • RBGPF

    59.2400

    59.24

    +100%

  • CMSC

    0.0320

    24.672

    +0.13%

  • SCS

    0.2300

    13.27

    +1.73%

  • RELX

    0.9900

    46.75

    +2.12%

  • BCC

    3.4200

    143.78

    +2.38%

  • RIO

    -0.2200

    62.35

    -0.35%

  • CMSD

    0.0150

    24.46

    +0.06%

  • BCE

    0.0900

    26.77

    +0.34%

  • NGG

    1.0296

    63.11

    +1.63%

  • RYCEF

    -0.0100

    6.79

    -0.15%

  • VOD

    0.1323

    8.73

    +1.52%

  • AZN

    1.3700

    65.63

    +2.09%

  • GSK

    0.2600

    33.96

    +0.77%

  • BTI

    0.4000

    37.38

    +1.07%

  • BP

    0.2000

    29.72

    +0.67%

Deadly strikes on Gaza, Lebanon as Israel faces aid deadline
Deadly strikes on Gaza, Lebanon as Israel faces aid deadline / Photo: Omar AL-QATTAA - AFP

Deadly strikes on Gaza, Lebanon as Israel faces aid deadline

Israel launched deadly strikes on Gaza and Lebanon Sunday, rescuers and authorities said, ahead of a US deadline for improved aid delivery to the Palestinian territory.

Text size:

Rescuers in Gaza on Sunday said 30 people, including 13 children, were killed by Israeli strikes in the territory's north.

The first strike early Sunday hit a house in Jabalia, killing "at least 25" people including 13 children and injuring more than 30, the Palestinian territory's civil defence agency said.

Vowing to stop Hamas militants from regrouping in north Gaza, Israel on October 6 began a major air and ground assault.

The United Nations has described the area as under "siege" and Washington set a deadline of this coming week for Israel to get more aid in or face possible cuts to military assistance.

Another strike on the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City killed five people, with others still missing, civil defence said.

"A number of civilians are still under the rubble," it said.

Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military said it was "looking into the reports" of the strikes.

Lebanon's health ministry meanwhile said an Israeli strike on the village of Almat north of Beirut killed at least 12 people including three children on Sunday.

The war in Gaza erupted with Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel which resulted in 1,206 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.

Israel's retaliatory campaign has killed 43,603 people in Gaza, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, which the UN considers reliable.

Since late September Israel has been engaged in a two-front war after turning its focus north toward Lebanon, escalating air strikes and sending in ground troops, after almost a year of tit-for-tat exchanges of fire with Iran-backed Hezbollah. The Lebanese group said it was acting in support of Hamas.

Israel's main military backer the United States on October 15 warned that it could withhold some of its billions of dollars in military assistance unless Israel improves aid delivery to the Gaza Strip within 30 days -- a deadline that expires on Wednesday.

- Qatar suspends mediation -

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at the time that top US officials made "clear to the government of Israel that there are changes that they need to make again to see that the level of assistance making it into Gaza comes back up from the very, very low levels that it is at today".

The demand came before Tuesday's election of President-elect Donald Trump who has promised to give freer rein to Israel.

On Saturday a UN-backed assessment warned famine is imminent in northern Gaza.

Aid shipments allowed to enter Gaza were now lower than at any time since October 2023, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report.

The alert from the Famine Review Committee warned of "an imminent and substantial likelihood of famine occurring, due to the rapidly deteriorating situation".

Israel's military questioned the report's credibility.

"To date, all assessments by the IPC have proven incorrect and inconsistent with the situation on the ground," a military statement said, denouncing "partial, biased data and superficial sources with vested interests".

IPC says its process is "evidence-based" and ensures "a rigorous, neutral analysis."

The heads of UN agencies in early November described north Gaza as "under siege" and denied "basic aid and life-saving supplies."

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hopes to use the remaining weeks of his term to press for an end to the Gaza and Lebanon wars, a spokesman said on Thursday, before fellow mediator Qatar on Saturday said it had suspended its role in trying to broker a deal.

"Qatar would resume those efforts... when the parties show their willingness and seriousness," Doha's foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said in a statement.

burs-it/jsa

(Y.Berger--BBZ)