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Lebanon: Six Hezbollah, Amal Fighters Killed in Israeli Strikes in the South

28 March 2024, Lebanon, Naqoura: Lebanese women walk past rubble of a café that was hit by an overnight Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Naqoura. Photo: STR/dpa
28 March 2024, Lebanon, Naqoura: Lebanese women walk past rubble of a café that was hit by an overnight Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Naqoura. Photo: STR/dpa
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Lebanon: Six Hezbollah, Amal Fighters Killed in Israeli Strikes in the South

28 March 2024, Lebanon, Naqoura: Lebanese women walk past rubble of a café that was hit by an overnight Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Naqoura. Photo: STR/dpa
28 March 2024, Lebanon, Naqoura: Lebanese women walk past rubble of a café that was hit by an overnight Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Naqoura. Photo: STR/dpa

Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Amal parties declared on Saturday that six of their fighters were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah also declared carrying out nine attacks against Israeli army outposts in north Israel.
Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza on October 7, Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging cross-border bombardment on a near daily basis. Movements allied with Hezbollah have also declared engagement in military operations against Israel.
On Friday, Hezbollah said three of its fighters were killed. Amal movement, led by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, also said three of its own were killed.
Hezbollah claims to carry out attacks on Israel in support of Hamas in Gaza, and that it is targeting Israeli military sites.
Israel says it is responding to the sources of fire from Lebanon, and is targeting military officials in Hezbollah and Hamas, according to Agence France-Presse.
The Israeli army said in a statement on Friday that its warplanes carried out an airstrike on a military facility of Amal in Marjayoun, in southern Lebanon.
The spokesperson for the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, announced on X platform that Israeli warplanes targeted infrastructure of Hezbollah, including a military building, in the area of Ayta al-Shaab, in southern Lebanon.
The Secretary-General of Hezbollah announced in a televised speech Friday that the party had not yet used "neither its main weapons nor its main forces" against Israel. He reiterated that Hezbollah would cease its attacks when the war in Gaza stops.
Since the beginning of cross-border hostilities, at least 356 people were killed in Lebanon, including 235 fighters from Hezbollah, 15 fighters from the Amal Movement, and 68 civilians.
On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and eight civilians were killed by fire from Lebanon, according to the Israeli army.

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Fears for Gaza Hospitals as Fuel and Aid Run Low

The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said Friday that hospitals have only two days' fuel left before they must restrict services, after the UN warned aid delivery to the war-devastated territory is being crippled. - AFP
The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said Friday that hospitals have only two days' fuel left before they must restrict services, after the UN warned aid delivery to the war-devastated territory is being crippled. - AFP
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Fears for Gaza Hospitals as Fuel and Aid Run Low

The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said Friday that hospitals have only two days' fuel left before they must restrict services, after the UN warned aid delivery to the war-devastated territory is being crippled. - AFP
The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said Friday that hospitals have only two days' fuel left before they must restrict services, after the UN warned aid delivery to the war-devastated territory is being crippled. - AFP

The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said Friday that hospitals have only two days' fuel left before they must restrict services, after the UN warned aid delivery to the war-devastated territory is being crippled.

The warning came a day after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant more than a year into the Gaza war.

The United Nations and others have repeatedly decried humanitarian conditions, particularly in northern Gaza, where Israel said Friday it had killed two commanders involved in Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack that triggered the war.

Gaza medics said an overnight Israeli raid on the cities of Beit Lahia and nearby Jabalia resulted in dozens killed or missing.

Marwan al-Hams, director of Gaza's field hospitals, told reporters all hospitals in the Palestinian territory "will stop working or reduce their services within 48 hours due to the occupation's (Israel's) obstruction of fuel entry".

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was "deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of 80 patients, including 8 in the intensive care unit" at Kamal Adwan hospital, one of just two partly operating in northern Gaza.

Kamal Adwan director Hossam Abu Safia told AFP it was "deliberately hit by Israeli shelling for the second day" Friday and that "one doctor and some patients were injured".

Late Thursday, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, Muhannad Hadi, said: "The delivery of critical aid across Gaza, including food, water, fuel and medical supplies, is grinding to a halt."

He said that for more than six weeks, Israeli authorities "have been banning commercial imports" while "a surge in armed looting" has hit aid convoys.

Issuing the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, the Hague-based ICC said there were "reasonable grounds" to believe they bore "criminal responsibility" for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare, and crimes against humanity including over "the lack of food, water, electricity and fuel, and specific medical supplies".

At least 44,056 people have been killed in Gaza during more than 13 months of war, most of them civilians, according to figures from Gaza's health ministry which the United Nations considers reliable.