The Lebanon-based Hezbollah called the attack near Binyamina city retaliation for Israeli strikes on Beirut on Thursday that killed 22 people.
Palestinians react to a fire after an Israel i strike hit a tent area in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.
Inside Gaza, an Israeli airstrike killed at least 20 people including children at a school Sunday night, according to two local hospitals. The school in Nuseirat was sheltering some of the many Palestinians displaced by the war. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, called Sunday's incident "deeply worrying" and said attacks against peacekeepers may constitute a war crime.Military officials said a tank trying to evacuate wounded soldiers backed into a U.N. post Sunday while under fire. A smoke screen was used to provide cover, they said.
Israel has long accused the United Nations of being biased against it, and relations have plunged further since the start of the war in Gaza.Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel a day after Hamas' surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, drawing retaliatory airstrikes. The conflict escalated in September with Israeli strikes that killed Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and most of his senior commanders.
The Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah targets, without elaborating, and said it continued to target the militants on Sunday.
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