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US Offers Some Lebanese Nationals Protected Status Amid War

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 17, 2024, amid the continuing war between Irsael and Hezbollah. (Photo by AFP)
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 17, 2024, amid the continuing war between Irsael and Hezbollah. (Photo by AFP)
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US Offers Some Lebanese Nationals Protected Status Amid War

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 17, 2024, amid the continuing war between Irsael and Hezbollah. (Photo by AFP)
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 17, 2024, amid the continuing war between Irsael and Hezbollah. (Photo by AFP)

The United States said on Thursday it was authorizing certain Lebanese nationals currently in the country to remain for the next 18 months and apply for work permits, as hostilities flare between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

Certain individuals from Lebanon who were already in the US as of Oct. 16 can apply for the so-called Temporary Protected Status, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

Israel launched its ground and air campaign in Lebanon to dismantle Hezbollah after a year during which the Iran-backed group fired across the border in support of Hamas in Gaza.

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Palestinian Officials: Israeli Strike on School-turned-shelter in Gaza Killed 15

Displaced Palestinians queue to receive food rations, offered by a charity, in Gaza's Al-Shati refugee camp on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Displaced Palestinians queue to receive food rations, offered by a charity, in Gaza's Al-Shati refugee camp on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
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Palestinian Officials: Israeli Strike on School-turned-shelter in Gaza Killed 15

Displaced Palestinians queue to receive food rations, offered by a charity, in Gaza's Al-Shati refugee camp on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Displaced Palestinians queue to receive food rations, offered by a charity, in Gaza's Al-Shati refugee camp on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in northern Gaza on Thursday killed at least 15 people, including five children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

The Israeli military said the strike targeted dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants who had gathered at the school.

The strike hit the Abu Hussein school in Jabaliya, an urban refugee camp in northern Gaza where Israel has been waging a major air and ground operation for more than a week.
Fares Abu Hamza, head of the ministry's emergency unit in northern Gaza, confirmed the toll and said dozens of people were wounded. He said the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital was struggling to treat the casualties.
"Many women and children are in critical condition,” he said.
The military said it targeted a command center run by both militant groups inside the school. It provided a list of dozens of names of people it identified as militants who were present when the strike was called in. It was not immediately possible to verify the names.