Israeli troops kill at least 11 people in Lebanon as residents try to return home
Israeli troops kill at least 11 people in Lebanon as residents try to return home
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People shot at attempting to return home in Lebanon and Gaza as Israel accuses Hamas and Lebanese army of violating deals. Israeli forces opened fire on people trying to return to their homes under ceasefire agreements for Lebanon and Gaza, killing at least 11 people in Lebanon and one Palestinian, according to Lebanon’s ministry of health.
Israeli authorities also ordered the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to vacate its hub offices in East Jerusalem by Thursday, before a total ban on operations in Israel that could jeopardise aid operations in Gaza at a critical time. Two separate deals to halt fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza both included provisions for civilians displaced by fighting to start going back from Sunday.
But Israel said it would not allow people to return to either area, accusing Hamas and the Lebanese army of violating key commitments under the two ceasefire deals. In Gaza, a crowd of thousands gathered overnight near a main Israeli checkpoint, entrance to a broad military corridor that now cuts the strip in two. They were desperate to see if anything they owned had survived the fighting, or escape refugee camps and temporary shelters, even if only for tents pitched in the ruins of their former homes.
