DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours killed at least 46 people, 11 of them in a makeshift cafeteria inside an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone, medics said. he said. in Lebanon, Warplanes hit southern suburbs of Beirut and killed 18 people elsewhere in the country on Tuesday.

The last bombardment came from the USA He said he would not reduce military support to Israel After the deadline for further humanitarian aid to Gaza has passed. Foreign Ministry also cited some progress, international aid groups say Israel Could not meet US demands.

In Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut (the area known as Dahiyeh, where Hezbollah has a significant presence) were rocked by massive explosions shortly after the Israeli army issued an evacuation warning for 11 homes there.

There was no immediate comment on the casualties. The Israeli military said it targeted Hezbollah’s infrastructure, including command centers and weapons production facilities, without providing evidence.

At least six people were killed in an Israeli attack on an apartment building in eastern Beirut. Wael Murtada said that the collapsed house belonged to his uncle and that the people inside escaped from Dahiye last month. He said that there were three children among the dead and that the other people were missing.

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Tuesday, November 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Bilal Hüseyin

Journalists document smoke rising after an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Tuesday, November 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Bilal Hüseyin

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Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said 12 people were killed and eight injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Lebanon. The strike came without warning. and state media said the building housed displaced families.

Israel has been carrying out intense bombardment of Lebanon since the end of September, vowing to cripple Hezbollah and end more than a year of cross-border fire from the Lebanese militant group.

A rocket hit a warehouse building in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya on Tuesday, killing two people, first responders said. Two more people were injured by shrapnel in a separate collision outside the town.

A Hezbollah drone crashed into a kindergarten near the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Tuesday morning, but the children were in a bomb shelter and suffered no injuries. Due to the impact, debris was scattered on the playground.

46 people died in Israeli attacks in Gaza

At the same time, Israel continued its campaign in Gaza, which has lasted more than 13 months, triggered by Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

An Israeli attack late Monday hit a makeshift cafeteria used by displaced people in Muwasi, the center of a “humanitarian zone” declared by the Israeli army early in the war.

According to Nasser Hospital officials, where the injured were taken, at least 11 people, including two children, died. Video from the scene showed men pulling bloody wounded from among tables and chairs set up in the sand inside an enclosure made of corrugated metal sheets.

An attack on a house in the northern town of Beit Hanoun on Tuesday killed 15 people, including relatives of Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat, who was reporting from the north.

Mohamed Shabat and his wife Dima, volunteer doctors at Kamal Adwan Hospital, were killed along with their daughter Eliaa, according to hospital director Hossam Abu Safiya.

Another 20 people died in attacks in central and southern Gaza, according to Palestinian health officials.

The Israeli army has not yet commented on the attacks.

Under US pressure, Israel allows more aid to Gaza

Hours earlier, the Israeli military announced a small expansion of the humanitarian zone in which it told Palestinians evacuated from other parts of Gaza to take shelter. Hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering in vast tent camps in and around Muwasi, a desolate area with few public services.

Israeli forces have also besieged the northernmost part of Gaza since early October and are fighting Hamas fighters who they say have regrouped there.

The siege, which has seen virtually no food or aid allowed for more than a month, has raised fears of famine among tens of thousands of Palestinians still thought to be sheltered there.

The United States gave Israel a 30-day deadline, ending this week, to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza and called on Israel to, among other things, allow at least 350 truckloads of cargo to enter each day.

So far Israel has fallen short. According to Israel’s official figures, an average of 57 trucks a day entered Gaza in October and an average of 75 trucks a day in November. The United Nations has been reducing this number to 39 trucks per day since the beginning of October.

Israel has announced a number of measures in recent days to increase aid, including the opening of a new crossing into central Gaza and some small deliveries of food and water to the north. But so far its impact is unclear.

More forced evacuations in isolated northern Gaza

The army announced on Tuesday that four soldiers were killed in Jabaliya, bringing the number of soldiers killed since the beginning of the offensive to 24.

Palestinian health officials say hundreds of Palestinians died, but the actual numbers are unknown because rescue teams could not reach the buildings destroyed in the attacks. Israel ordered the evacuation of residents in the area. But the UN estimates about 70,000 people remain.

Most Palestinians there are afraid of Israel aims to evacuate the area permanently To keep it under control more easily. On Tuesday, witnesses told The Associated Press that Israeli troops surrounded at least three schools in Beit Hanoun, forcing hundreds of displaced people who had taken shelter inside to leave.

Speaking as gunshots were heard from one of the schools, Mahmoud al-Kafarnah said drones were making announcements demanding people go south to Gaza City. “The tanks are out there,” he said. “We don’t know where to go.”

Hashim Afanah, who was sheltering with at least 20 other people in his family’s home, said forces were evacuating people from homes and shelters.

Israel’s operation in Gaza has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians, but more than half of the dead were women and children, according to local health authorities, which do not distinguish between civilians and militants in their numbers. Israel says it is targeting Hamas militants hiding among civilians.

The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants raided southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 250 hostage. Around 100 hostages still in GazaAbout a third are believed to have died.

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Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Melanie Lidman in Jerusalem, Natalie Melzer in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed.

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This story has been corrected to show that the duration of the war is now 13 months, not 19 months, and that 75 aid trucks entered per day in November, not 87, according to Israeli figures.

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