A United Nations peacekeeper has been hit by gunfire in southern Lebanon, the organisation says. Meanwhile, Israel claims Hezbollah has been using ambulances to transport weapons and militants. Listen to The World podcast below as you scroll.
A UN peacekeeper has been shot in Lebanon, the United Nations force in the country has said. The man, who has not been named, had to undergo surgery to have a bullet removed, but is now in a stable condition. He is the fifth peacekeeper to be injured in three days;
Air raid sirens have been sounding across northern Israel consistently throughout the day, starting in the earlier hours of the morning. Speaking to Sky News following the breaking news we brought you in our previous post, Yassamine Mather said the United Nation was taking a"very strong position" on the attacks.
The Israeli military said its soldiers identified a threat and responded with fire, and that the intended target was located 50 metres away. Israel has been carrying out strikes against Iran-linked targets in Syria for years but has ramped up such raids since last year's 7 October attack by Hamas. Dominic WaghornFor the first time in almost half a century, Israel is at war during the Jewish day of atonement, Yom Kippur.
Israel's critics believe it is trying to clear the entire north of Gaza to make it a closed occupied zone, something its government refutes. The sounds of war though have not reached Tel Aviv in the last 24 hours, bar one loud explosion last night. A Hezbollah drone flew into northern Israel and evaded air defences, crashing into an apartment block in the upmarket area of Herzliyya. No one was hurt.
Israel has denied such allegations and insisted that it has allowed food and other aid into Gaza in significant quantities.
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