The Israel Defense Forces says it struck a number of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon over the past day.
Among the targets were a weapons depot, observation posts, military infrastructure, and launch positions including one from which a guided anti-tank missile was fired at the area around the northern Israeli tow of Shlomi on Wednesday, the IDF says in a statement.
Jordan condemns alleged Israeli shelling in the vicinity of the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza, which has reportedly led to the injury of seven hospital staff who were treating wounded Palestinians.
The IDF did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether it was carrying out airstrikes in the area.
In a statement, Amman’s Foreign Ministry lambasts the act as “a clear violation of international law,” and holds Israel “fully responsible for endangering the lives of Jordanian medical teams,” threatening to take legal and political steps after it receives the results of an investigation launched by the Jordanian army.
Jordan also urges Israel to refrain from attacking hospitals. The IDF has provided significant evidence that some of Hamas’s main command centers and weapons depots are located under Gaza’s medical facilities.
The UAE also issues a statement in which it “strongly condemns” the alleged Israeli bombing near the Jordanian field hospital.
Responding to a UN Security Council vote calling for “extended humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, Israel’s Foreign Ministry demands the body work to free the hostages held in the Strip.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry says there is “no room for extended humanitarian pauses as long as 239 hostages are still in the hands of Hamas terrorists.”
The UNSC resolution did call for the immediate release of all the hostages.
A number of reports today indicated that there is a potential deal in the works to free a number of captives in exchange for a several-day pause in fighting.
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