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Accusations of Israel violating international labour laws 

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Israel has been refusing to pay Palestinian workers for work performed before October 7th and have not paid them since. They also haven't been given any compensation for the jobs they lost.

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Israel accused of breaking global labor law by withholding Palestinian worker pay

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Unions say ‘blatant’ violations of international wage protections have tipped many into extreme poverty

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Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah's leader killed in an Israeli bombing...

Hezbollah began firing into northern Israel on Oct. 8 in solidarity with Hamas

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Israel Strikes Lebanon Again After Killing Hezbollah Leader

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The bombings late Saturday were the latest in a week of stepped up attacks. A bombing on Friday assassinated Hassan Nasrallah, a stunning escalation in Israel’s campaign against the Iranian-backed group.

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Photos: Israel attacks school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza

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A mass burial is also held in Khan Younis after 88 unidentifiable bodies of Palestinians were sent to Gaza by Israel.

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Israeli attack on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

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Israeli attack on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

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Israel’s war on Gaza, Lebanon live: Israeli ground troops enter Lebanon

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Israel’s war on Gaza, Lebanon live: Israeli ground troops enter Lebanon

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Israel launches 'ground raids' against Hezbollah

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Israel launches 'ground raids' against Hezbollah

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Lebanon latest: Israel launches ‘ground raids’ against Hezbollah

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The Israel Defense Forces says it has launched “limited, localized, and targeted ground raids” in southern Lebanon.

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Israel has assassinated Hezbollah military commanders, Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wehbe. This comes after an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut.

Wehbe was specialised in training Hezbollah terrorists between 2007 and 2012, with him being promoted in early 2024 to being the commander of Hezbollah's Radwan Special Forces.

Aqil was Chief of Staff of Hezbollah from the mid -1990s, and was later given charge within the Jabel Amel Operations Unit between 1997 and 2000. Aqil was a commander during the 2006 Lebanon war between Hezbollah and Israel, in which he was instrumental in establishing and leading the Radwan Special Forces. In 2008 he was the Deputy to the Secretary-General for operations affairs - also being an architect in creating the Operations Department of Hezbollah. Aqil was also a member of Hezbollah's Jihad council - overseeing Hezbollah's military and internal security.

Furthermore, Aqil was also active in the east of Lebanon, directing attacks on opposing Islamic groups with 'Takfir' beliefs according to Hezbollah. Aqil's most recent posting was commanding the Radwan Special Forces operating on the southern border with Israel since the 6th of October terrorist attack.

4 missiles were fired by Israeli jets in the assassination of Wehbe and Aqil, and according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, that 31 people were killed, mostly Hezbollah terrorists, with 68 wounded. (14 terrorists along with commanders)

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After Israel's attack on Hezbollah through pagers, and the targeted killing of Hezbollah commanders, analysts predict that Israel's next course of action is through launching a ground invasion in southern Lebanon. This is due to the reduction in the threat of Hezbollah's military might as armaments and Hezbollah terrorists have been eliminated. Due to Hezbollah rocket fire in the north of Israel, there has effectively been a lockdown in order to protect civilians. If an invasion does occur, or doesn't, both outcomes suggest that a deal would have to be reached with Hezbollah - possibly with the chance of a deal with Hamas as well.

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Here are all the universities that Israel has destroyed in Gaza

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Here are all the universities that Israel has destroyed in Gaza

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New Arab

Highlights long term impacts on Palestine, particularly in impacting education. Unnecessary victims.

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Looks at the impact on Israel and Israelis of the recent developments with hezbollah. Shows that the bombing of Lebanon and the hezbollah response is having an impact on local residence and their ability to go about there daily lives with restrictions in place.

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Carmel Shama-Hacohen started Wednesday morning like any other: Checking WhatsApp in bed. The mayor of Ramat Gan, one of Israel's most populous cities, abutting Tel Aviv, was reading messages from residents, when Hezbollah shot a missile towards central Israel. An air raid siren went off and he moved to his home's safe room.

Less than two hours later, Shama-Hacohen was nonplussed, telling Israel's national broadcaster Kan that the most important thing is that the Home Front Command is still letting children in central Israel go to school as normal, so that adults can go to work and the economy - including Israel's diamond district, based in Ramat Gan - can continue to function.

"The public is very calm this time, in contrast with other rounds when there was hysteria," Shama-Hacohen told Kan. "My WhatsApp is usually blowing up with [Ramat Gan residents'] concerns and fears. Not this time."

While it has long been known that Hezbollah has missiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv, Israel has been preparing for Haifa to be the epicenter of the Iran-backed terror group's escalating attacks as it expands the radius of its missile targets, much as Israel's third-most populous city and the largest city in the north was in the 2006 Second Lebanon War.

While the IDF's Home Front Command has declared a "special situation" throughout Israel, only the country's north has limitations. Between the Lebanon border to just south of Haifa, all schools are closed this week, as are the beaches, even though the weather is in the 80s. Outdoor gatherings are limited to 10 people and indoor to 100. Workplaces can only open if there is a safe room or shelter close enough to reach within seconds.

Dr. Ohad Hochman is the CEO of a workplace that cannot shut down in emergencies - the Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa, which includes northern Israel's only soldier rehabilitation hospital. When Home Front Command published new guidelines for the city on Sunday, Hochman oversaw the transfer of the medical center's hundreds of patients - including newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit - to an underground facility.

"We have a new building that is built like a shelter," Hochman, the former chief medical officer of the Israeli Navy, told Jewish Insider this week. "We built it as part of the lessons learned in the Second Lebanon War, when a missile fell next to the hospital. The ground level is a protected emergency room, and under that are areas for those who are admitted."

Bnai Zion planned to open the facility in early 2024, but ended up moving the hospital's emergency room to the new building on Oct. 9, 2023. This week is the first time that the medical center's entire operations - except for elective surgeries, which have been put on hold - were moved to the underground hospital.

"When there was a siren in the Haifa area [on Monday]," Hochman recalled, "all of the patients were already in a protected area, and all we had to do was wait for the siren to end. We felt very safe. The moment there is an alarm, everyone here is in a safe situation."

The hospital is emptier than usual, Hochman said, noting that he could hear booms and see the Iron Dome defense system intercepting missiles from his office window during his phone call with JI.

"People are only coming to us now if it's a real emergency," he said. "Because people are not going out, there are fewer injuries, car accidents, acts of violence."

One Haifa resident hunkering down at home is Sima Nachshon, 71, who said she already had her safe room prepared for the possibility of an escalation with Hezbollah.

"There is a lot of hysteria. It's a very unpleasant feeling," Nachshon told JI. "Up until a week ago, we went out to cafes, like people in Tel Aviv, but then suddenly people stopped going out. We suddenly felt the lack of security. You're alert all the time."

"I was cooking, and then I thought to myself, 'If there's a siren, I have to remember to turn the gas off before I run to the safe room.' I think about how to set things up in order not to be too stressed," she said.

Nachshon has grandchildren who live nearby, in an apartment without a safe room and only a bomb shelter for the whole building: "If they need to run to the shelter too often, they will come to me. But if they have to run from time to time, it's not so bad. We have to see what is happening hour by hour and then decide how to act."

Still, Nachshon emphasized that Haifa residents have it better than many other Israelis. "I feel a little embarrassed talking about myself when people have been experiencing this day after day," she said.

"I'm almost 72 years old now and our country has been through a lot. We'll get through this," she added.

This week was nothing new for Nisan Zeevi, a resident of Kfar Giladi in the upper Galilee and founder of Lobby 1701, an organization that calls for international pressure to force Hezbollah north of the Litani River, as specified in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701.

"We residents in the line of fire have been at war for 11 months," he said. "There have been over 8,500 rockets [launched by Hezbollah], 1,200 precision missiles, 1,300 drones, 43 killed, 180 injured ... Some of us have been evacuated for a long time. Our communities have almost totally fallen apart."

Speaking to JI, Zeevi periodically interrupted himself with exclamations of "wow" as he saw and heard Iron Dome interceptions in the distance: "That must be at least 70," he said.

Before Hezbollah began its assault on Israel's north on Oct. 8, Zeevi spent his days as vice president of Margalit Startup City - Galil, meant to nurture the tech sector in Israel's north. Since then, Zeevi said, "many of the things we built here were destroyed ... food-tech, agro-tech, dozens of startups, hundreds of jobs."

Zeevi has done IDF reserve duty in the war and is on Kfar Giladi's security squad. His wife and two sons, ages 5 and 8, were evacuated almost a year ago to the lower Galilee, but they periodically visit home as a family to make sure the children retain a sense of belonging.

Zeevi called on the government to be "more proactive" to bring security back to Israel's north so that the residents of moshavs and kibbutzim near the Lebanon border can return home.

"We trusted the international community and the government of Israel that they would make sure that UNSCR 1701 was implemented and there would be no Hezbollah between the border and the Litani, and that UNIFIL [the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon] was making sure it would happen ... but no one made sure the resolution was being implemented. Now they're saying they can't do it, so we demand that our government enforce it militarily," he said.

Residents of Israel's north need "security, not just a feeling of security," Zeevi said. "Cameras or a higher wall are not security."

"There is no diplomatic agreement with a terrorist organization that says they want to conquer and kill us ... I say this as a leftist," said Zeevi, a former aide to Knesset members from Kadima and Yesh Atid.

The detonations last week of pagers belonging to Hezbollah members are helping restore trust in Israel's security establishment, Zeevi said, but added that "the job won't be done with a display of pyrotechnics ... We need to create a buffer zone of at least 15 km. in Lebanon's territory, a no-man's land with nothing there. No terrorists, not even children, nothing ... That is the only way to deal with the threat of an anti-tank missile aimed at the window of a home. There is no Iron Dome for that."

Despite it all, Zeevi was optimistic, noting that projects, such as a new medical center in Kiryat Shmona sponsored by JNF-USA, are still moving forward.

"It's hard to picture the future while we are in this catastrophe, but we have no choice," he said. "After this evacuation of over 70,000 people ... we need not just to bring people back, but to bring more people ... We need to rehabilitate the communities, build good educational institutions, provide grants for teachers so they will move here, because what happened in the last 11 months is that our region was turned into one that is illegitimate to live in. We saw the Shi'ite jihadists and folded up our Zionist idea and retreated. It was a very anti-Zionist act."

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Israelis from Tel Aviv to Haifa brace for Hezbollah attacks

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Haifa's Bnai Zion hospital moves patients underground, while residents of central Israel try to continue their routine despite Hezbollah missile; Israelis evacuated from Lebanon border call for proactive military moves to allow them to return home

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https://www.newarab.com/analysis/regional-war-between-israel-and-iran-inevitable

The article reflects on recent events and what it means for the region going forward. It explores the setbacks Israel has inflicted on Hezbollah and what that may mean for Iran in particular.

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Is a regional war between Israel and Iran inevitable?

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Analysis: Israel’s decision to escalate a multifront war has left Iran with a dilemma in how to respond, with the Middle East bracing for what comes next.

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Israeli Forces Confiscate Harvest From Palestinians

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Israeli Forces Confiscate Harvest From Palestinians

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Israel Bombs Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza in 24 hours.

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Israel Bombs Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza in 24 hours.

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This article takes into account the impact that the strikes in Lebanon not only have on the Lebanese people but also the Israel-Palestine conflict as Hezbollah stands alongside the Palestinians and therefore the loss of Nasrallah means a great deal to those who feel they have lost a great ally. This article also brings to light how most Gazans are beyond frustrated by the rhetoric used by Israel as they claim to target leaders of Hezbollah or Hamas yet continue strikes upon civilians.

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‘We lost a great supporter’: Palestinians in Gaza mourn Hassan Nasrallah | Israel-Lebanon attacks | Al Jazeera

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https://www.palestinechronicle.com/why-israel-started-the-war-with-lebanon-not-hezbollah-analysis/

Within the space of less than forty-eight hours, Israeli airstrikes killed around 700 people in Lebanon, injuring over 2,000 others according to the Lebanese Health Ministry; many of the casualties were women and children.

On top of this, thousands of homes across Lebanon have been destroyed or damaged, spanning from the southern villages along the border to the capital, Beirut, all the way to the north of the Bekaa Valley.

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, even published his video message to the people of Lebanon, where he says “Hezbollah has been using you as human shields”, stating that “they’ve placed rockets in your living rooms” and “missiles in your garage”.

In reality, Hezbollah stores its missiles in a labyrinth of tunnel systems underground.

They aren’t telling specific people to evacuate their homes in their text messages and flier-dropping missions, they are threatening them with airstrikes if they live in an area they have chosen to bomb indiscriminately.

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Why Israel Started the War with Lebanon, Not Hezbollah - ANALYSIS

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There is no way that Israel’s recent attacks on Lebanon can be construed as self-defense unless you are ideologically committed to defending Israel.

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Iranian response to killing of Hezbollah leader

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Iranian response to killing of Hezbollah leader

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Video touches on the capacity of Iran to respond and why responding immediatly could spark religious war

References also the reputation of Israel internationally as being at it's lowest. Yet, Netanyahu's domestic popularity is increasing

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‘Iran still calculating response’ to Israel strikes on Hezbollah leader, says analyst

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We spoke to the political analyst Dahlia Scheindlin who’s in Jerusalem.

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Israeli Defence Forces destroy a tunnel in central Gaza. The tunnel was reportedly used for the storage of equipment by Hamas.

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Israeli air strikes kill the Hamas Leader in Lebanon on Friday, which was deemed popular by the Israeli people. The continued bombing of Lebanon has caused lots of individuals to flee to Syria.

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Israel-Lebanon live updates: Hamas leader in Lebanon killed as Israeli air strikes reported across country

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Hamas says Lebanese leader Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was killed in southern Lebanon; Palestinian militant group PFLP says three of its leaders were killed in central Beirut.

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Israeli air strikes kill the Hamas leader, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, in Lebanon. This strike has been popular with the Israeli people, according to the BBC, but has not advanced Israel towards its goal of returning the 60,000 displaced Israelis to northern Israel. Furthermore, 100,000 people have fled Lebanon to Northern Syria.

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As we previewed earlier, we can now bring you an address from Hezbollah's deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem.

Israel killed Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike on Friday, and Qassem says the group will choose his replacement at the earliest opportunity.

We'll have more lines from his speech in the next few minutes.

Carine Torbey
BBC Arabic correspondent, reporting from Kola in Beirut

The attack on Kola is a major development, as the building targeted is at the heart of Beirut in an area that has so far been spared Israeli assault.

It hit a Sunni area near the district's intersection, a popular reference point in the city, where taxis and buses gather to pick up passengers.

It has sent shockwaves all across the country - even in areas deemed safe so far.

A man sitting under the bridge facing the targeted building tells us he heard a very loud sound at 01:00 local time. Dust was everywhere.

He says he saw shards of glass flying all around him. Papers from a nearby printing house can be seen scattered on the ground.

Next to the man is a big spill of blood. The area is cordoned off. The army is deployed around the place.

As we reported earlier, the strike killed four people, including three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

The Israeli military reports that 35 rockets have been fired from Lebanon into northern Israel this morning.

Some were intercepted while others fell in open areas, the IDF says.

Hezbollah is yet to comment - but it has continued firing rockets at Israel in recent days, even as Israel attacks its launch sites and infrastructure.

We're getting images now showing the aftermath of Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon.

These pictures were taken in Ain al-Delb, where the Lebanese health ministry says at least 32 people were killed on Sunday.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani says Iran will not leave any Israeli "criminal acts" unanswered.

Speaking during a weekly news conference - his first since a senior general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed by an Israeli strike on Friday - Kanaani says Iran does not seek war but is not afraid of it, Reuters reports.

His comments echo those of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who said over the weekend that Israel's actions would not go "unavenged".

Hezbollah - which Israel is targeting in Lebanon - is one of a number of militias in the region backed and funded by Iran.

At least 100,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria to escape recent Israeli air strikes, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says.

"The outflow continues," he says, adding that UN personnel are providing assistance at four border crossings.

That is an update on figures we brought you yesterday, which reported close to 80,000 had fled to Syria in the past seven days.

Of those, 36,000 were Syrian and 41,300 were Lebanese, according to Lebanese Minister Nasser Yassin.

We're expecting to hear from Hezbollah's deputy chief at around 10:00 BST.

It will be the first such speech from Sheikh Naim Qassem since the militant group's leader - Hassan Nasrallah - was killed by an Israeli strike on Friday.

We'll bring you live updates and analysis, and you can follow along by pressing watch live above.

David Gritten
Middle East reporter

As we just reported, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says three of its leaders were killed in a strike on Beirut's Kola district.

The PFLP is a left-wing Palestinian armed group, and the second largest faction in the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).

The PFLP was formed as a resistance movement after Israel's occupation of the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war. Combining Arab nationalism with Marxist-Leninist ideology, it saw the destruction of Israel as integral to its struggle to remove Western capitalism from the Middle East.

The group pioneered aircraft hijackings as a high-profile means of drawing attention to their movement. In 1976, the PFLP captured an Air France plane and forced it to fly to Entebbe in Uganda. After a stand-off, Israel launched a dramatic commando raid to rescue nearly 100 hostages.

The PFLP's armed wing, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, was also behind several suicide attacks during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, in the early 2000s.

The group lost ground to Islamist groups like Hamas in recent decades. But it has still continued to carry out attacks in Israel and the West Bank and been involved in firing rockets into Israel from Gaza.

Human Rights Watch says there is strong evidence that PFLP gunmen from Gaza participated in the Hamas-led cross-border attack on southern Israel on 7 October, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

PFLP fighters have also battled Israeli forces during the ensuing war in Gaza, in which more than 41,500 people in the territory have been killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

The PFLP is designated as a terrorist organisation by Israel and the US. Its leader, Ahmed Saadat, is imprisoned in Israel after being convicted of ordering the 2001 murder of Israel's tourism minister.

We have an update now on the strike on Beirut's Kola district that we told you about earlier.

Four people were killed and a further four were injured, Lebanon's health ministry says.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) - a Palestinian militant group - said earlier that three of its leaders were among those killed.

It would appear to be the first Israeli attack in Beirut beyond Hezbollah's base in the southern suburbs of Dahieh. Israel has not yet commented on the incident.

Jeremy Bowen
International Editor

The Middle East region feels as if it is on the edge and the big question is what Iran might do.

Israel almost seems to be taunting it to hit back, in the knowledge that their retaliation would be far stronger, and backed by the Americans.

If you look at it from the Iranian point of view, there's the US Navy reinforcing Israel in the Mediterranean, Israel in a mood to do damage to its enemies, and thinking it may be in a position to reshape the Middle East.

It is time for tough decisions for all the participants in this. What does Iran do, what does Israel do, and Hezbollah, who have sustained massive losses including their leader and are reeling from this - what do they do?

One thing Iran watchers and some Israelis are warning about is that if the so-called ring of fire - Iran's build-up of allies and proxies formed over many years - is now shown to be flawed and ineffective, it leaves the question of whether they could decide to develop a nuclear weapon.

It's possible - they are close to the technical knowledge. If so, and the Americans discovered it, then it could lead to a US bombing campaign against Iran. That's the kind of wider scenario that people are worried this turbulence could lead to.

What seemed to be the rules of the game have gone. Nobody knows where things are going, and for Israel's allies, who continue to call for a ceasefire and a diplomatic solution, that level of unpredictability and insecurity is full of dangers and possible mistakes.

Jeremy Bowen
International Editor

Israel's actions are proving enormously popular at home - on news programmes and TV there have been people having celebratory toasts, politicians have been handing out sweets and chocolate to celebrate to say this is a great day, there have been singalongs on TV.

So there is this feeling in Israel that they have scored a mighty victory and they now have the opportunity to reshape things.

However, if you consider that their strategic goal with Hezbollah is to get the more than 60,000 people in northern Israel back to the towns they have been forced to leave, killing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah does not bring them any closer to that.

Hezbollah are still firing rockets and although they are not causing huge amounts of damage to Israeli targets, people cannot return to their homes while that continues.

So the question is what does Israel do next - one possibility is a ground invasion into southern Lebanon and I would say that is quite likely.

Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a strike on Friday that, Israel said, also killed 20 other key figures in the group - the Iran-backed group confirmed the leader's death the next day

A senior general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, Abbas Nilforoushan, was also killed in the strike, Iran state media said

US President Joe Biden described the strike as a "measure of justice" for victims of Nasrallah, but Iran's supreme leader has said his death "will not go unavenged"

Iran's leader, Ali Khamenei, was also reportedly moved to a secure location

Cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon was reported throughout the weekend, with Israel saying it killed additional senior figures from the militant group

Lebanese officials said more than 100 people were killed on Sunday, bringing the death toll from the past two weeks to more than 1,000

Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Israeli air strikes may have displaced as many as one million people, describing it as possibly the largest displacement in its history

Israel also targeted another Iranian-backed group, the Houthis, in Yemen, claiming they were responding to attacks the group had carried out against it

You can read more about how the conflict is affecting people in Lebanon in this piece from our senior international correspondent Orla Guerin which was also published over the weekend.

We've just received reports of a suspected Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs.

Eyewitnesses are reporting seeing smoke rising over buildings, according to the Reuters news agency.

In the above picture - taken from a Reuters live stream of Beirut's southern suburbs - you can see faint plumes of smoke in the upper-left corner.

The Israeli military has not yet commented on the apparent strike.

We're trying to gather more details on this. Stick with us.

Palestinian militant group Hamas says Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, the group's leader in Lebanon, has been killed along with some family members in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon.

Hamas says he was killed in a strike "on his home in the Al-Bass camp in south Lebanon". The state-run Lebanese National News Agency reported an air strike on the camp near the southern city of Tyre.

Although Hamas is based in Gaza - where Israel has been fighting it since the 7 October attacks - it also has a presence in Lebanon.

Both Hamas and Hezbollah are backed and funded by Iran.

We're seeing images now from Kola, where an attack on an apartment left the building with a gaping hole.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) - a Palestinian militant group - says three of its leaders were killed in the strike overnight.

Israel has not commented on it.

Israel's military says it carried out air strikes in the Bekaa region, east Lebanon, overnight.

The strikes targeted dozens of rocket launchers and buildings used by Hezbollah to store weapons, the Israel Defense Forces says.

The IDF says it also targeted military buildings used by Hezbollah in various parts of southern Lebanon.

In an earlier update, the military said that it had successfully intercepted a "suspicious aerial target" that had crossed the border from Lebanon.

Hugo Bachega
Middle East correspondent, in Beirut

Israel seems to be expanding its campaign against Iranian-backed groups in Lebanon, and in the Middle East, which is likely to renew fears of a wider regional conflict.

As its campaign against the Shia movement Hezbollah continues, an apartment building was hit in Beirut's Kola area - a mainly Sunni Muslim part of the city - overnight.

This appears to be the first Israeli attack in Beirut beyond Hezbollah's base in the southern suburbs of Dahieh.

This is a busy neighbourhood, on the road that connects the airport to central Beirut, the Hamra and Ashrafieh districts. It could signal that Israel will target not only Hezbollah leaders, which it has done with great success, but other enemies too, no matter where they are.

The militant group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says three of its leaders were killed. Hours later, Hamas said its leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, was killed along with family members in an Israeli strike in the south of the country.

And, perhaps in attempt to prevent further attacks from the Houthis in Yemen, who have been firing missiles at Israel, Israeli air strikes hit their infrastructure in the city of Hudaydah last night.

Meanwhile, there are growing signs that an Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon could be imminent, which will probably worsen an already critical situation.

Across the country, hospitals are struggling to cope with the sheer number of casualties from Israeli air strikes, and shelters are under pressure amid a growing number of displaced residents.

The prime minister, Najib Mikati, said as many as one million people might have already fled their homes, calling it the largest displacement in Lebanon's history.

Ben Hatton
Live reporter

We're restarting our live coverage as Israel appears to be expanding its campaign against Iranian-backed groups across the Middle East, with cross-border strikes with Hezbollah in Lebanon continuing.

Lebanese authorities said at least 105 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Sunday, with 359 people injured.

Its prime minister said on Sunday that the ongoing conflict may have already forced as many as one million people from their homes across the country.

Overnight, an apartment building was hit in the Kola district of Beirut - it appears to be the first Israeli attack in the centre of Beirut, with previous strikes targeting Hezbollah bases in the southern suburbs.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) - which the US and EU consider a terrorist organisation, but which is also a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a coalition recognised at the UN as the official representative of the Palestinians - says three of its leaders were killed in the strike.

On Sunday, Israel also launched airstrikes against the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. The Houthi-run health ministry said at least four were killed and 29 injured in air strikes on the port of Hudaydah.

Israel said the strikes were responding to Houthi attacks on Israel.

We'll be providing updates and analysis throughout the day.

Israel's military says it carried out further air strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Sunday, as well as hitting two locations in Yemen that it said were Houthi military sites.

Lebanese authorities say more than 50 people were killed in the strikes, while the Houthis have vowed that a "response is inevitable" against Israel.

Following the strikes in Yemen, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said "no place is too far" for Israel's pursuit of its objectives, while US President Joe Biden said a wider regional conflict "has to be avoided".

We're pausing our live coverage for today, but we'll be back tomorrow to bring you the latest from the region.
You can read the latest from the ground in Lebanon and the international response to the conflict here.

In a statement issued just moments ago, Saudi Arabia says it stands in support of Lebanon and calls for the preservation of the country's "sovereignty and territorial integrity".

The Saudi foreign ministry said it had watched the events of recent days in Lebanon with "grave concern", though it made no made mention of the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

It also called on the international community to work to protect regional security and minimise the humanitarian consequences of the conflict.

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Israel-Lebanon live updates: Hamas leader in Lebanon killed as Israeli air strikes reported across country

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Hamas says Lebanese leader Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was killed in southern Lebanon; Palestinian militant group PFLP says three of its leaders were killed in central Beirut.

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People in Gaza talk about their sympathy and mourning for the killing of Hazbollah leader, Nasrallah. They express their concern about their life in displacement camps becoming a possibility in Lebanon and that while there is some division over Nasrallah due to his religion, the overwhelming feeling is sadness at the loss of support. They also worry about Israel’s continued actions with political and international immunity

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‘We lost a great supporter’: Palestinians in Gaza mourn Hassan Nasrallah | Israel-Lebanon attacks | Al Jazeera

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'Palestinian teen, 14, critically hurt in clashed with IDF; 19 arrested in West Bank'

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'Palestinian teen, 14, critically hurt in clashed with IDF; 19 arrested in West Bank'

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A 14 year old Palestinian critically injured whilst there were battles with troops of Israel near Bethlehem, West Bank
Israeli Troops made way into Dheisheh refugee camp aiming to arrest Palestinains due to many months of efforts of anti-terror, following a number of attacks in 2022 resulting in 31 deaths

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'Palestinians slam Biden administration for failing to stop Israeli 'escalation'

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'Palestinians slam Biden administration for failing to stop Israeli 'escalation'

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Officials of Palestine have strongly criticised the US administration for failing to apply pressure on the government in Israel to stop security crackdown of the ID on the Palestinians of West Bank
Disappointment was also expressed by these officials because of broken promises to Palestinians. These promises included opening back up the US Consulate in Jerusalem and also the diplomatic mission by the PLO in Washington, which had previously been shutdown in the Trump administration

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The end of Israeli democracy? It's real, but can still be prevented

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Haaretz | Israel News Opinion | If the Palestinians under Israeli rule continue to be denied democracy, why should we expect Israelis to be guaranteed it in perpetuity?

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Nighttime Israeli arrests haunt Palestinian kids, families

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Nighttime Israeli arrests haunt Palestinian kids, families

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In 2022,the Israeli military arrested and interrogated hundreds of Palestinian teenagers in the occupied West Bank, without ever issuing a summons or notifying their families, according to an upcoming report by the Israeli human rights organization HaMoked. In the vast majority of pre-planned arrests of minors by the military, children were often beaten, as well as Water, food and access to toilets often being withheld.

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A new translation of Franz Kafka's diaries

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A new translation of Franz Kafka's diaries

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A new English translation of the Franz Kafka's diaries Bring light to Kafka's complex, contradictory relationship with Judaism. For an author most famous for his depictions of loneliness and estrangement, Kafka saw in Judaism an opportunity to forge a shared community.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-58614105

The first article shows Israels crackdown on Palestinian escapees. The second article shows how severe that crackdown was as all the escaped prisoners were recaptured.

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Four of six Palestinian prison escapees recaptured - Israel

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A manhunt was launched after six inmates tunnelled out of a prison in northern Israel on Monday.

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https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-war-middle-east-palestinians-e6d44f4e478cced2cfaeac61385020ac https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/23/israel-medical-negligence-palestinian-prisoner-hussein-masalmah-dies One of these articles explores the daily lives of Palestinians whilst the others gives a closer understanding of the treatment of prisoners. The everyday lives of Palestinians are deeply affected in so many ways, with simple trips to leave the house being dangerous. The second article describes a specific case of  medical neglect of a prisoner which led to his death, which also makes reference to how many people are imprisoned without trial.

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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/pa-bidens-commitment-to-two-state-solution-good-but-insufficient-677977

i find these two articles interesting as it shows the impact that the US has as an outside global superpower so as to speak on the current situation and power balance. i think it is especially considring the strong religious ties of not only both countries involved, but also of the USA. I cannot help but be reminded of past military situations that the USA has waded into in the past and the destabalising effects that had when thinking about the future of this conflict

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Israel's Iron Dome defense system intercepted more than 90 percent of the rockets launched by Hamas in May. Credit... Corinna Kern for The New York Times

WASHINGTON - The House on Thursday overwhelmingly approved $1 billion in new funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, after a debate that exposed bitter divisions among Democrats over United States policy toward one of its closest allies.

The vote was 490 to 9 to help Israel replace missile interceptors used during heavy fighting in May amid a devastating rocket and missile war with the Palestinians, reflecting the widespread bipartisan support in Congress for Jerusalem that has persisted for decades.

But it came only after a group of progressive Democrats who have accused Israel of human rights abuses against Palestinians revolted, effectively threatening to shut down the government rather than support the money. Democratic leaders were forced to strip it out of legislation to keep the government funded past a Sept. 30 deadline, which passed the House on Tuesday, and approve the Iron Dome money separately.

The liberals' maneuver roiled centrist and Jewish lawmakers, who said they were appalled and astonished by their colleagues' refusal to fund a defensive system to protect Israeli civilians.

"Whatever your views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, using a system that just saved hundreds, if not thousands, of lives as a political chit is problematic," said Representative Elissa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan.

The back and forth was the latest flare-up in a long-simmering feud between the energized progressive wing of the party, which has demanded an end to conditions-free aid to Israel, and other Democrats who maintain strong backing for Israel's right to defend itself. The internal tensions come as a growing number of Democrats in Washington, prodded by the party's left flank, say they are no longer willing to give the country a pass for its treatment of the Palestinians.

"We must stop enabling Israel's human rights abuses and apartheid government," Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, said on Wednesday night, announcing that she would vote against the bill.

Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, on Thursday argued that the United States should no longer continue to provide Israel with funding "without addressing the underlying issue of the occupation."

"This is not about one country," Ms. Omar said. "If human rights are truly to guide our foreign policy, we need to act like it everywhere. Otherwise our words ring hollow."

The episode underlined just how tenuous Democrats' razor-thin majority in the House is - and how any disunity can threaten party leaders' ability to cobble together the bare minimum votes needed to pass any bill.

Eight Democrats, as well as one Republican, Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, ultimately opposed the measure. Two Democrats, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Hank Johnson of Georgia, voted present.

Representative Rashida Tlaib said she would vote no to the Iron Dome funding because of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Credit... Rebecca Cook/Reuters

On Thursday, their comments sparked a furious backlash from some of their colleagues, who argued that the legislation was limited to a supporting an entirely defensive system. They noted that during the peak of fighting in May, the Iron Dome intercepted more than 90 percent of the flurry of Hamas-launched rockets that would otherwise have landed in civilian-populated areas.

In an angry speech on the House floor, Representative Ted Deutch, Democrat of Florida, said he would not allow "one of my colleagues to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and label the Jewish democratic state of Israel an apartheid state."

"To falsely characterize the state of Israel is consistent with those who advocate for the dismantling of the one Jewish state in the world," he said. "When there is no place on the map for one Jewish state, that's anti-Semitism, and I reject that."

Determined to show that the party would stand by one of the nation's closest allies, Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 Democrat, who had lobbied for the aid, downplayed the drama in a phone call to Yair Lapid, Israel's minister of foreign affairs, calling it a "technical delay" and reiterating his "commitment to ensuring Israel receives this needed aid."

"After years in which the previous government neglected Congress and the Democratic Party and caused considerable damage to Israel-U.S. relations, we are today rebuilding a relationship of trust with the Congress," Mr. Lapid wrote on Twitter, confirming the call.

Other party stalwarts, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, rose on Thursday in support of the legislation, arguing that passing the additional funding was crucial to protecting Israeli civilians and noting that it was an extension of a 2016 deal struck by former President Barack Obama.

But eyeing an opportunity to peel away Jewish voters from the Democratic Party, House Republicans cast the altercation as a transgression against Israel. They said progressives' refusal to allow the funding to pass as part of the broader government spending bill was a missed opportunity to support Israel, even though Republicans opposed the spending bill en masse.

"By blocking funding to resupply the Iron Dome, Democrats made the choice to abandon an opportunity to stand with Israel and its citizens," Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 Republican, said.

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WASHINGTON - The House on Thursday overwhelmingly approved $1 billion in new funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, after a debate that exposed bitter divisions among Democrats over United States policy toward one of its closest allies.

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Six Palestinian inmates, are on hunger strikes, until Israeli authorities inform them what they have been charged with and when they will be released. Many in similar positions are forced into solitary confinement or forcibly relocated. However, after the uproar of the re-arrested inmates, hundreds of other prisoners are preparing to go on a mass hunger strike by the end of the week in support of the rearrested escapees and other fellow prisoners. There are currently 4,650 political prisoners in Israeli prisons, 200 are child prisoners, and 520 are administrative detainees.

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Palestinian inmates plan mass hunger strikes in support of the rearrested escapees and their abysmal jail conditions. Dura, Occupied West Bank - Tensions have been building for months but the situation could soon explode as anger over Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners reaches boiling point.

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Palestinians in prison in Israeli territories are seen as political prisoners and heroes, as they are fighting for liberation. 6 Palestinians broke out of Gilboa prison, but have now been re-arrested, which has caused uproar and sadness throughout Palestine, as it is seen as another setback. There was violence among the locals in the area against the police with explosions, fire and rocks all being used. Palestinians seem to take pride in their prisoners as they are fighting for civilian rights, Palestinian territory and freedom.

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Despite the detention of the six escapees, Palestinians on the ground say they remain thrilled over what they managed to do.

Demonstrators take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank [Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]

Ramallah, Occupied West Bank - Residents of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank say they are shocked over the news of Israeli occupation forces rearresting the last two Palestinian detainees who broke out of prison earlier this month.

The two - Ayham Kamamji, 35, and Munadel Infai'at, 26 - were among six Palestinian prisoners who fled Gilboa prison at dawn on September 6.

The men uncovered a point in their cell's toilet that led to an underground cavity, where they dug a tunnel that opened up a few metres beyond the prison wall.

Following a two-week massive manhunt, an Israeli military raid on Jenin city in the northern West Bank saw Kamamji and Infai'at turn themselves in after Israeli occupation forces surrounded them while they were taking shelter in a residential building.

The other four prisoners - Mahmoud al-Ardah, Mohammad al-Ardah, Yaqoub Qadri, and Zakaria al-Zubaidi - were rearrested in pairs on September 10 and 11 near Nazareth in the north.

Palestinians, who see detainees in Israeli jails as political prisoners in the struggle for liberation, widely celebrated the prison break, and viewed it as a triumph over the occupying state. News of the arrests of the last two prisoners reigned in sentiments of shock and sadness.

Al Jazeera spoke to Palestinians on the streets of Ramallah, most of whom said they expected that the last two - Kamamji and Infai'at - were safe, particularly as two weeks had passed since they broke out.

"I expected that they had left the country," Basman Barakat, a mini supermarket owner, told Al Jazeera, describing their rearrest as a "naksa" or "setback" in Arabic, in reference to the 1967 Middle East war.

"Everyone is surprised. They needed to have planned better. We don't know what happened with them," the 40-year-old continued.

"It would have been better if they had managed to see their families before being re-arrested, but they didn't - they didn't get to enjoy the exit they made," added Barakat.

Similarly, Yusra Abed, 60, said she was deeply upset over the developments, and connected with the prisoners as though they were her children.

"I am in shock - I cried a lot. I expected that they had made it out of the country by now - to Lebanon, to Gaza - anything but being caught," said Abed.

"I think the Palestinian people should rise up for these prisoners. If a protest is announced for them, I will be the first one there," she continued, describing the six as "heroes".

"They are defending Palestine. Why else would they be in prison?"

Vegetable vendor Mohammad Absa, 48, pointed out the rearrest of the last two prisoners, in Jenin, made the news more shocking.

"The first four were in Israeli areas - any Israeli would have informed on them - but that they were arrested in Jenin. Everyone is very upset," he told Al Jazeera.

"Almost 15 days had passed - we thought they had help and had left the country," added Absa.
'Prisoners are our pride'
Before breaking out of the prison, four of the six prisoners had been serving life sentences, while two were being held in detention awaiting military trial.

Those sentenced were arrested between 1996 and 2006 and had been convicted of carrying out attacks against Israeli military and civilian targets. Five of them are affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, while one is a senior member of the armed wing of Fatah, a group that dominates the Palestinian Authority.

The six prisoners are now being held at the Jalama Detention Center near Haifa, undergoing interrogation and facing trial. Their lawyers said they have been exposed to physical and mental abuse, and in some cases torture, by Israeli interrogators.

Kamamji and Infai'at appeared separately at the Nazareth Magistrate Court on Sunday, which extended their detention by 10 days, according to their lawyers. The other four prisoners also separately appeared before the court on Sunday, which extended their detention for the second time.

Despite the rearrest of the six, Palestinians on the ground say they remain thrilled over what the six prisoners managed to do.

Reem Shehadeh, a 20-year-old university finance student, said it is "beautiful that they managed to get to Jenin" in reference to Kamamji and Infai'at.

"Prisoners are our pride, and what they did makes us proud," she told Al Jazeera. "When they were rearrested, my family and I were all depressed, but at the end of the day, what they did is proof that liberation is assured, and hopefully they will get out in an exchange deal."

The Palestinian movement that administers the Gaza Strip, Hamas, has said in recent days that it is working on a prisoner exchange agreement that would place the six prisoners at the top of the list.

Arwa Hamayel, 50, described the prison break as a "miracle".

"Are they expected to spend their whole lives in prison? They raised our heads high - what they did was brave," she told Al Jazeera.

Similarly, Absa, the vegetable vendor, said, "Even if they were caught, they did more than what anyone could have imagined."

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Shock and pride: Palestinians react to re-arrest of 'heroes'

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Despite the detention of the six escapees, Palestinians on the ground say they remain thrilled over what they managed to do. Ramallah, Occupied West Bank - Residents of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank say they are shocked over the news of Israeli occupation forces rearresting the last two Palestinian detainees who broke out of prison earlier this month.

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In this article, 10th September 2021, it is seen that Palestinians (notably the Palestinian Authority) has agreed to help Israel in the search of some escaped inmates who were able to flee from Israel's "heavily fortified prison complex". The cooperation on this 'manhunt' seems to have caused certain political and social issues. Some Palestinian people disagreed with the collaboration of defences and protest through throwing stones at Israeli troops. On the other hand, the continued unrest between Israel and Palestine would, as the article and namely al-Akhbar's report said, destabilise the West Bank and Gaza and boost rivals Hamas and Islamic Jihad

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A report Friday claimed that the Palestinian Authority had agreed to cooperate with an Israeli manhunt for six inmates who escaped from prison earlier this week, some of whom are thought to be hiding out in the West Bank.

If correct, the report in the Lebanese paper al-Akhbar would mark a stark shift for Ramallah, which had joined the overwhelming chorus of support for the six escapees in the Palestinian street and had been seen as unlikely to possess the political will for cooperating with Israel on bringing them in.

For Israel, which has struggled to track the whereabouts of the former detainees and has contended with an upsurge of violence linked to the escape, help from the PA would provide a welcome boost to reach certain areas of the West Bank.

According to the report in al-Akhbar, which was based on an unnamed source in the PA, an agreement was reached earlier this week that will see the Palestinian Authority cooperate on finding the escapees, in exchange for an Israeli commitment to capture them alive and ease conditions for the thousands of Palestinians remaining incarcerated in Israel.

There was no comment from Israeli authorities on the report.

The newspaper is seen as closely linked to both Hezbollah and Hamas, which is a rival of the Palestinian Authority and often accuses it of betraying the Palestinian cause by cooperating with Israeli security agencies.

The six Palestinians escaped from the high-security Gilboa Prison in northern Israel in the predawn hours of Monday morning, making their way out through their cell's drainage system in one of the most serious prison breaks in the country's history, and prompting a massive manhunt in northern Israel and the West Bank.

Four of the six fugitives were in jail for life in connection with deadly attacks against Israelis; the sixth - a notorious commander in Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terror group, Zakaria Zubeidi - was in prison while on trial for two dozen crimes, including attempted murder. Another was held in administrative detention.

Police believe that some of the suspects may have fled the country for Jordan - something Jordanian officials have denied - while the Kan public broadcaster reported on Thursday that authorities believe a number of them are still in the West Bank and are being aided by local Palestinians.

Tensions have escalated since the prison break as Israeli troops have carried out raids during searches for the escapees, and as authorities have taken actions to move high-value security prisoners to different facilities and separate members of the Islamic Jihad terror group.

Israel has deployed drones, road checkpoints, and an army mission to Jenin, the West Bank hometown of many of the escaped prisoners. The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said two brothers of Mahmud Ardah, described in local media as the mastermind of the escape, have been arrested.

The army has also taken into custody four other people - fellow family member Dr. Nidal Ardah, along with two brothers of a second fugitive and the father of Munadel Infeiat, another escapee.

Palestinians from across the political spectrum have rallied around the escapees, who captured the public's imagination with what was seen as a daring operation that exposed weaknesses in Israel's heavily fortified prison complex.

Large-scale demonstrations in support of them have occurred across the West Bank and Jerusalem, some of them violent.

Thursday night saw clashes in the flashpoint city of Hebron, where dozens of Palestinians threw rocks at Israel Defense Forces soldiers. There were no immediate reports of injuries. At least one Palestinian was arrested for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli troops. Troops and police were gearing up Friday morning for the possibility of renewed violence after Hamas called for a "day of rage" in support of the prisoners.

The wide popularity enjoyed by the six has tied Ramallah's hands, making it difficult to justify helping nab the latter-day folk heroes. "The PA won't cooperate with Israel on the escaped prisoners via the security coordination mechanism," former PA prisoners' affairs minister Ashraf al-Ajami told Army Radio Thursday.

But according to the al-Akhbar report, the PA was interested in putting the affair to bed amid fears that the continuing unrest could destabilize the West Bank and Gaza, and boost rivals Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Before the prison break, PA President Mahmoud Abbas had made moves to warm ties with Israel, after several years in which the sides had little meaningful contact beyond security cooperation, which was itself frozen for several months before US President Joe Biden took office.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Abbas late last month and said he agreed to a series of goodwill gestures. He noted that it was in Israel's interest to bolster the PA's hold on power.

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Report: Palestinians agree to help Israel track down escaped inmates

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Palestinians aim to prove right of return with ancestral land titles

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Both news articles speak to the contemporary struggle faced by the Palestinian people over claims to their own land and property.

The first article deals with the continuing conflict over land ownership highlighting one Palestinian man who holds centuries-old title deeds (one being issued by the Ottomans in 1788) proving his family's legal right to land in Israeli-occupied Barbara. What is especially interesting is that these documents are important in impressing the notion of Palestinians' right to return in the minds of young Palestinians, acting as evidence against Israeli claims that Palestine was a land without people.

The second article tackles the issue of property disputes, notably the mental health impact (especially on children) of raids and the threat of demolition by Israeli security forces. It highlights the constant trauma and fear placed on the Palestinian people and the difficulties they face in attempting to own their own property as Israeli forces seek to make room for more Israeli settlers. In particular, it focuses on the impact on children, highlighting that the way home invasions are orchestrated is in breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of Children.

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The Israel/Palestine conflict is so widely known, yet many people around the world won't truly understand the impact that it is having on people's daily lives. The first article helps to contextualise and demonstrate the disastrous effects that the conflict has been having for so long.

The second article helps demonstrate the changes to warfare and the advancement in warfare technology. It also shows the differences in the abilities to conduct warfare between Israel and Palestine.

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The latest war between Hamas and Israel followed a familiar - and troubling - pattern: Palestinian rocket fire, devastating Israeli airstrikes; a mounting loss of life and appeals for the "senseless cycle" to end.

Left behind after each war in 2008-09, 2012, 2014 and 2021 is an enduring fear of the next one.

In Gaza, Palestinians mourn the dead, try to resume life amid the ruins and rebuild. The United Nations says there has been more than $5 billion worth of damage over four wars to Gaza's homes, agriculture, industry, electricity and water infrastructure.

A closer look behind the staggering figure reveals the daunting challenges for any rebuilding plan.

Satellite imagery and death tolls show the magnitude of the devastation. Economic data reveals a young populace, hungry for work but with few job prospects. Even before May's war, polls show that Gaza residents are dissatisfied with their living conditions and 40% would leave if they could.

Gaza, experts say, is in crisis, each war further exacerbating the struggles faced by Palestinians.

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LAYERS OF TRAUMA

Gaza has been a flashpoint between Israel and Palestinians for decades.

Over two-thirds of the population are families that fled or were forced from their homes during the war surrounding Israel's creation in 1948. In the late 1980s, the first Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule erupted in Gaza, and the Islamic militant group Hamas formed, opposed to Israel's existence.

In 2007, a year after winning Palestinian parliamentary elections, Hamas wrested control of Gaza. Israel, with Egypt's help, swiftly closed Gaza's borders, and today little can enter or leave without Israeli permission.

In each war, Hamas fires thousands of rockets into Israel. Over the past decade, many have been stopped by Israel's Iron Dome aerial defense system. Israel launches missiles and airstrikes and, in May, struck over 1,500 targets in Gaza.

Israel says it aims only at military targets, but civilian structures are often hit as well. Israel blames Hamas, because the group often operates in residential areas.

The U.N. tracked the damage to structures in Gaza using satellite imagery following the wars in 2009, 2014 and 2021. By layering the images, one war atop the next, the map reveals dozens of areas along Gaza's border that suffered repeated rounds of destruction.

Among those are cities such as Rafah in southern Gaza, the town of Khuza'a and the northern town of Beit Hanoun, where Khaldiya Nassir lost her husband to Israeli gunfire and has seen her home damaged twice by war.

"This war? It destroyed us," she said after the latest conflict. "Everything is gone. We used to have a home but now it's gone. Every time there are problems, every time we have wars."

AN EVER-GROWING TOLL

There are many families like the Nassirs and neighborhoods like Beit Hanoun. Every war brings an accounting of the people killed and places destroyed.

The wars have killed more than 4,000 Palestinians, more than half of whom were civilians, according to the U.N. Israeli officials say 106 people have died in the fighting, including civilians, soldiers and foreign residents.

The cumulative damage from the strikes also brings a monetary cost. The Israel Tax Authority paid 303 million shekels ($96 million in today's dollars) to its citizens for repairs after the conflicts in 2009, 2012 and 2014. In May's conflict, according to the Institute for National Security Studies, an Israeli think-tank, estimated payouts could reach 315 million shekels (or $97 million), reflecting Hamas's growing firepower.

In Gaza, the dollar cost encompasses a scale of damage wider and more lasting. The direct damage from four wars amounts to more than $5 billion in losses, using 2021 dollars. Palestinian authorities largely depend on foreign donors to rebuild, with aid funneled to families and steered to construction projects through the U.N.

For months and sometimes years, damage goes unrepaired as donations are prioritized for the buildings worst hit. And there are persistent shortages of necessary supplies: Cement and steel require lengthy approval to enter Gaza, as Israel supervises materials it believes Hamas could use to re-arm.

Gaza's economy is caught in a "vicious" cycle of destruction, reconstruction and infusions of aid - "just to get it back to before this military operation," said Rami Alazzeh, a U.N. economist who has studied the wars' impact on Gaza.

"If this cycle keeps going on, Gaza can never recover," he said.

A GENERATION SHAPED BY WAR

According to Palestinian authorities, 70% of Gaza's 2 million residents are not yet 30 - a generation of young adults who spent their childhood and adolescent years in an active war zone. The median age in Gaza is 19, compared to 30 in Israel.

Among the challenges they face are joblessness and the long-term effects of living through war.

Since Hamas took over Gaza, unemployment has worsened, reaching levels more than twice that of the West Bank, where goods and people move more freely and where permits to work are easy to get. Joblessness has hit Gaza's young adults especially hard, with unemployment standing at 62% in June.

"This is a lost generation. A generation that is losing years of experience and skills that can be built," Alazzeh said.

Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder are common among Gaza's children - at least 640,000 of whom have been born since the first war between Hamas and Israel. In a study of 1,000 children after the 2012 war, nearly every child said they'd heard or witnessed shelling by tanks, artillery or military planes. More than half said they'd witnessed someone being injured or killed.

"Gaza is so dense. When these airstrikes occur, even if it's not your building, you're seeing it, you're hearing it," said Yara Asi, a scholar studying public health in conflict zones.

Abdullah Srour, 16, knows the toll of surviving four wars. He spent years in therapy recovering from memories of the 2014 war, when a missile hit his bedroom in Jabaliya refugee camp.

In May, Abdullah watched as rescue teams pulled out the bodies of a family crushed to death by rubble. His mother said he is restless now, often biting his nails and can no longer sleep alone.

"After this war," she said, "he's regressed to a child of five years old."

WANTING TO LEAVE, NO PLACE TO GO

The wars have chipped away at any sense of positivity toward life in Gaza, according to surveys by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. As of June, positive perception among Gazans of their living conditions stood at 14%.

Spirits were higher around 2013, reflecting perceived gains from the 2012 war. But in recent years, positivity has dipped as low as 4%.

Hardship fuels the desire for escape. Forty percent of Palestinians said in the June survey they were forced to consider leaving Gaza permanently.

The chance to do so is extremely rare. Gaza has no airport or commercial seaport, and exits by land are closed to the vast majority of travelers, with permission needed from Israel or Egypt, and Hamas. Visa waiting lists are thousands of names long. But if an opportunity arises outside Gaza, many take it.

"People are not finding the opportunities or they've looked for too long," said Majd Mashharawi, an engineer and entrepreneur. Her brother and many of her university classmates gave up searching, leaving for Europe or Turkey with no plans to come back.

She doesn't blame them. Life in Gaza and repeated war makes it almost impossible to picture the future, she said.

For Alazzeh, the economist, the totality of the wars' impact remains difficult to grasp.

"We like to put a dollar sign on everything," he said. But "the people in Gaza who lived under four wars, 14 years of closures, restrictions and blockade - how do you put a dollar sign on this? How do you quantify basically the suffering?"

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Wieffering is a Roy W. Howard Investigative Fellow.

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Associated Press reporters Felipe Dana, Adam Geller and Fares Akram in Gaza, and Josef Federman and Ilan Ben Zion in Jerusalem contributed to this story.

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The deepening costs of 4 Gaza wars in 13 years, in 4 charts

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The latest war between Hamas and Israel followed a familiar - and troubling - pattern: Palestinian rocket fire, devastating Israeli airstrikes; a mounting loss of life and appeals for the "senseless cycle" to end. Left behind after each war in 2008-09, 2012, 2014 and 2021 is an enduring fear of the next one.

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Both articles show the constant threat of violence that Palestinian people endure. The first article highlights questions around the treatment of Palestinian prisoners following a jailbreak attempt. The second discusses how since the jailbreak attempt tensions have risen in the area.

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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli aircraft struck a series of targets in the Gaza Strip early Monday while Palestinian militants launched rockets into Israel in the third consecutive night of fighting between the sides.

The violence took place shortly before Israel's prime minister, Naftali Bennett, was heading to Egypt for a visit expected to focus on Egyptian efforts to broker a long-term truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers in the wake of an 11-day war last May.

Those efforts appear to have come to a standstill in recent weeks. Tensions have further risen after last week's escape from an Israeli prison by six Palestinian inmates.

The Israeli military reported three separate rocket launches late Sunday and early Monday, saying at least two of them were intercepted by its rocket defenses. It said it attacked a number of Hamas targets in retaliation. There were no reports of casualties on either side.

In other violence, the Israeli army said an assailant attempted to stab a soldier at a busy intersection in the occupied West Bank. It said that soldiers shot the attacker, who was taken to a hospital. No further details were immediately available.

In downtown Jerusalem, meanwhile, police said a 17-year-old Palestinian boy stabbed and wounded two people near the city's central bus station.

Jerusalem police chief Doron Turjeman said the assailant was shot by an officer. The boy suffered a serious gunshot wound to the chest.

Islamist militant group Hamas praised the two attacks, but stopped short of claiming responsibility. Abdulatif Qanou, a Hamas spokesman, said they were meant to pressure Israel into "stopping its crimes against our people and prisoners."

Last week's prison break appears to have heightened tensions across the region, with Palestinians staging a number of protests in solidarity with the men. In Palestinian society, nearly every family has seen a member imprisoned by Israel, and the thousands of prisoners held by Israel are widely seen as heroes paying a price for the national cause.

Over the weekend, Israel caught four of the six Palestinian inmates, who tunneled out of a maximum security prison on Sept. 6. Palestinian militants reacted to the arrests with rocket fire. Israel's search for the last two prisoners is continuing.

The Egyptian-mediated efforts to deliver a long-term truce have struggled with the sides unable to agree on a system to renew Qatari payments to needy Gaza families. Israel has demanded guarantees that Hamas does not divert the money for military use.

Gaza is an impoverished territory whose population is overwhelmingly comprised of families who fled or were forced from properties in what is now Israel during the war surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948.

Hamas is pushing for Israel to end a crippling blockade that has devastated Gaza's economy, while Israel is demanding that Hamas free two captive Israeli civilians and return the remains of two dead Israeli soldiers.

Hamas has controlled Gaza since ousting the forces of the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority in 2007, a year after the Islamic militant group won Palestinian parliamentary elections.

Since then, Israel and Hamas have fought four wars and numerous smaller rounds of fighting.

On Sunday, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Sunday called for a new approach to end the cycle of fighting with Hamas, describing a plan of international investment in Gaza's infrastructure in exchange for pressure on Hamas to halt its military buildup and preserve calm.

"The policy Israel has pursued up until now hasn't substantially changed the situation," Lapid told a security conference. "We need to change direction," he added.

Much about his proposal - which he said was made in consultation with the United States and other countries - has been floated before but never implemented due to the fighting, deep distrust and bitter internal divisions on both sides. Bennett, whom Lapid is to replace in 2023 under a rotation agreement, did not immediately comment on the proposal.

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Israel hits Hamas targets as Gaza militants fire rockets

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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli aircraft struck a series of targets in the Gaza Strip early Monday while Palestinian militants launched rockets into Israel in the third consecutive night of fighting between the sides.