The Israeli military warned people to evacuate from more parts of southern Lebanon after airstrikes across the country killed at least eight people on Thursday. Meanwhile, Palestinian officials said that three people died in Israel’s raid on the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that two Palestinians died in the Israeli attack and a third Palestinian died as a result of Israeli fire. The Israeli military said its forces were targeting militants in the area. Nur Shams refugee campWhich has seen repeated battles in recent months. The military said it had eliminated a Hamas militant involved in planning attacks on Israelis.

Also Thursday, Israeli police said they arrested a couple accused of spying on Israeli intelligence sites and gathering information on an Israeli academic on behalf of Iran.

Developments come as mediators step up efforts to stop wars In Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, new proposals are being circulated to end regional conflict.

Hezbollah Newly appointed leader Naim KassemHe said the militant group would: keep fighting your battle with Israel until it is offered ceasefire terms it deems acceptable.

1.2 million people were displaced conflict in LebanonAccording to government estimates. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said more than 2,800 people have been killed and more than 12,900 injured since Oct. 8, 2023, when Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel in retaliation. Israeli ground forces invaded Southern Lebanon in early October.

Death toll as of: more than a year between Israel-Hamas war The number of civilians in Gaza has exceeded 43,000, without distinguishing between civilians and combatants, Palestinian officials reported on Monday. The war began when Hamas-led militants raided Israel on October 7, 2023, killing nearly 1,200 people, mostly civilians. He kidnapped 250 more people.

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BEIRUT — The Israeli military has warned people to evacuate from more parts of southern Lebanon, including a Palestinian refugee camp. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes killed at least eight people in different parts of the country on Thursday.

Rashidiye refugee camp, near the port city of Tire, dates back to B.C. 1948 Middle East warwhen hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were expelled from what is now Israel.

Israel invaded Lebanon in early October after nearly a year of conflict with Hezbollah. The militant group began firing rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel after Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023 triggered the war in Gaza. Iran supports both groups.

Israel warned people to evacuate from large areas of the country, including major cities in the south and east. More than a million people have already fled their homes.

Israeli strikes killed seven people in eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News agency. In another attack, a man on a motorcycle died on the coastal road between Tire and Sayda.

The news agency also reported that a car was also hit on the main highway through the mountains outside the capital Beirut. It was stated that the strike closed the highway and diverted traffic to nearby villages. There was no immediate comment on the casualties.

JERUSALEM — Israeli police said Thursday that a couple accused of spying on Israeli intelligence sites and gathering information on an Israeli academic on behalf of Iran was arrested.

Israeli security services say they have uncovered several Iranian spy networks in recent months. The two arch-enemies have been waging a long-running shadow war that has been in the open since the beginning of the war in Gaza. They opened direct fire for the first time in April. then again this month.

Police and the Shin Bet internal security agency said in a statement issued Thursday that the man arrested, Rafael Guliev of the central city of Lod, spied on Israel’s Mossad espionage center for Iranians and was collecting information on an academic working at the Institute. for National Security Studies, one of Israel’s leading think tanks. The scholar’s identity was not stated.

It was stated in the statement that Guliev was also given the task of finding an assassin, but it was not clear in the statement whether Guliev actually did this.

In the statement, it was stated that Guliev’s wife Lala also helped with the activities.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian officials said at least three people were killed in an Israeli military attack on the occupied West Bank.

The military said its forces were targeting militants in the area. Nur Shams refugee campWhich has seen repeated battles in recent months. The army said it had eliminated a Hamas militant involved in planning attacks on Israelis in the area.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement on Thursday that two Palestinians died in the Israeli attack and a third Palestinian died as a result of Israeli fire.

Israel said its forces were still in the area.

At least 763 Palestinians, including more than 165 children, have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since a Hamas attack on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 triggered war there, according to the Ministry of Health.

Most appear to be militants killed during army operations, but the dead also include nearby civilians and people killed during violent protests.

Palestinians have carried out dozens of stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks against Israelis since the start of the war.

Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war, and the Palestinians want it to form the main part of their future state. Israel has built numerous settlements here, currently home to more than 500,000 Israeli settlers.

The region’s 3 million Palestinians live under seemingly open-ended Israeli military rule, with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority exercising limited self-government in populated centres.