Israeli Strikes in the Lebanese City of Sidon Kill at Least 10 People

 Search and rescue team members try to reach victims after an Israeli raid targeted Haret Saida in Sidon, Lebanon, 29 October 2024. According to the ministry of health at least five were killed and 33 injured in the Israeli strike. (EPA)
Search and rescue team members try to reach victims after an Israeli raid targeted Haret Saida in Sidon, Lebanon, 29 October 2024. According to the ministry of health at least five were killed and 33 injured in the Israeli strike. (EPA)
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Israeli Strikes in the Lebanese City of Sidon Kill at Least 10 People

 Search and rescue team members try to reach victims after an Israeli raid targeted Haret Saida in Sidon, Lebanon, 29 October 2024. According to the ministry of health at least five were killed and 33 injured in the Israeli strike. (EPA)
Search and rescue team members try to reach victims after an Israeli raid targeted Haret Saida in Sidon, Lebanon, 29 October 2024. According to the ministry of health at least five were killed and 33 injured in the Israeli strike. (EPA)

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said 10 people were killed and 37 others were wounded by a pair of strikes Tuesday evening in the southern coastal city of Sidon.

Within a few hours, a third apparent Israeli strike targeted another building in the same neighborhood, Lebanon's state-run media reported.

Another Israeli airstrike hit the nearby Sarafand town and killed eight people and wounded 21 others, according to the Health Ministry. It said rescue efforts were ongoing in the town, which is about 10 kilometers (6 miles) further south down the coast.

According to the National News Agency, the first strikes in Sidon targeted an area sheltering displaced people that was adjacent to a Hezbollah complex called Sayyed Shohada, located a few hundred meters (yards) from a Lebanese army barracks.

The intended target of the strikes was not clear and the Israeli army gave no warnings ahead of the bombing.

Earlier Tuesday, the Israeli military had issued evacuation orders for 16 villages in South Lebanon, instructing residents to move north of the Awali River.



WFP: Major Food Aid 'Scale-up' Underway to Famine-hit Sudan

FILED - 27 August 2024, Sudan, Omdurman: Young people walk along a street marked by destruction in Sudan. Photo: Mudathir Hameed/dpa
FILED - 27 August 2024, Sudan, Omdurman: Young people walk along a street marked by destruction in Sudan. Photo: Mudathir Hameed/dpa
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WFP: Major Food Aid 'Scale-up' Underway to Famine-hit Sudan

FILED - 27 August 2024, Sudan, Omdurman: Young people walk along a street marked by destruction in Sudan. Photo: Mudathir Hameed/dpa
FILED - 27 August 2024, Sudan, Omdurman: Young people walk along a street marked by destruction in Sudan. Photo: Mudathir Hameed/dpa

More than 700 trucks are on their way to famine-stricken areas of Sudan as part of a major scale-up after clearance came through from the Sudanese government, a World Food Program spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been locked in conflict since April 2023 that has caused acute hunger and disease across the country. Both sides are accused of impeding aid deliveries, the RSF by looting and the army by bureaucratic delays.
"In total, the trucks will carry about 17,500 tons of food assistance, enough to feed 1.5 million people for one month," WFP Sudan spokesperson Leni Kinzli told a press briefing in Geneva.
"We've received around 700 clearances from the government in Sudan, from the Humanitarian Aid Commission, to start to move and transport assistance to some of these hard-to-reach areas," she added, saying the start of the dry season was another factor enabling the scale-up.
The WFP fleet will be clearly labelled in the hope that access will be facilitated, Reuters quoted her as saying.
Some of the food is intended for 14 areas of the country that face famine or are at risk of famine, including Zamzam camp in the Darfur region.
The first food arrived there on Friday prompting cheers from crowds of people who had resorted to eating crushed peanut shells normally fed to animals, Kinzli said.

A second convoy for the camp is currently about 300 km away, she said.