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40,405 Palestinians Killed in Israel's Military Offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7

Palestinians inspect damage in Hamad City, following an Israeli raid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 24, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
Palestinians inspect damage in Hamad City, following an Israeli raid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 24, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
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40,405 Palestinians Killed in Israel's Military Offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7

Palestinians inspect damage in Hamad City, following an Israeli raid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 24, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
Palestinians inspect damage in Hamad City, following an Israeli raid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 24, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

At least 40,405 Palestinians have been killed and 93,468 others injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, said the Gaza Health Ministry, Reuters reported.

In the last 24-hours, 71 were killed and 112 were injured in what the ministry called three massacres by Israel in the strip.

The recent war in Gaza started after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

Israel says it goes out of its way to avoid civilian casualties and accuses Hamas of using human shields, an allegation the group denies.

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Hezbollah Chief Says Attack Targeted Israeli Base Near Tel Aviv

People listen to a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at a coffee shop in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
People listen to a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at a coffee shop in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Hezbollah Chief Says Attack Targeted Israeli Base Near Tel Aviv

People listen to a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at a coffee shop in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
People listen to a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at a coffee shop in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said his group's attack on Israel on Sunday targeted a military intelligence base near Tel Aviv around 100 kilometers from the Israeli-Lebanese border.

The "main target for the operation" inside Israel was "the Glilot base -- the main Israeli military intelligence base,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech.

Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon early Sunday in what it called a preemptive strike to avert a large Hezbollah rocket and missile attack. The group said it fired hundreds of rockets and drones to avenge the killing of a top commander last month.

Nasrallah denied statements by the Israeli military that its pre-emptive strikes had stopped a wider attack by the group.

Israel's military said one soldier with the navy was killed and two others were wounded either by an interceptor for incoming fire, or by shrapnel from one. Two Hezbollah fighters and a militant from Amal movement were killed, the groups said.

Hezbollah called its attack on Israeli military positions an initial response to the killing of Fouad Shukur in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut last month. Nasrallah said assaults on Israel will continue “because there is still the response of (allies) Iran and Yemen.”

Nasrallah said Hezbollah had not planned a larger attack, specifically denying Israeli military statements that the group had intended to fire thousands of projectiles.
But he acknowledged that the operation had been delayed for several reasons, including what he called a "mobilization" of Israeli and American military assets in the region.