UPDATES: Gaza Health Ministry says 200 killed in Israeli siege of north

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But before going, let’s get you up to speed with the latest developments:

• Dr. Mounir al-Bursh, head of Gaza’s Health Ministry, gave a terrifying picture of Israel’s siege of the northern Strip saying 200 people have been killed in eight days of siege with many dead bodies left on the streets.
• The Israeli army has kept pounding several areas across Lebanon, including hitting Nabaiteh, a major city in southern Lebanon.
• At least 1,645 people have been killed in Lebanon since late September when Israel escalated its attacks, the Health ministry said.
• UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon will not move from the border area despite five of their members being wounded and damage to facilities during the Israel-Hezbollah war, their spokesperson told AFP.
• Israeli army says 40 rockets fired from Lebanon which were either intercepted or fell into open areas.
• The Israeli army has announced that five areas in northern Israel close to the border with Lebanon have now turned into closed military zones.
• Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz says his decision to declare UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “persona non grata” won’t change despite opposition from more than 100 UN member states.

“The State of Qatar strongly condemned the Israeli occupation’s seizure of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem”, reads a statement from the country’s Foreign Ministry.

Two days ago, Israel announced the seizure of the land as well as plans to build an illegal settlement on it.

Israel’s “efforts to dismantle UNRWA are a link in a chain of reprehensible targeting of the United Nations itself”, Qatar’s statement continued.

The EU also recently condemned Israel for its attacks on the UN agency, saying it is “gravely concerned” about draft legislation that would ban UNRWA from operating in Israel and likely scale back aid distribution across war-ravaged Gaza.

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The military added that some of them were intercepted while the rest fell into open areas.

This follows Israeli media reports on the activation of air raid sirens in the Upper Galilee region of Israel.

Watch our video for an update on a blood day in the Gaza Strip, during which Israel continued its attacks from the air across all areas, and continued to squeeze Jabalia refugee camp in the territory’s north.

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We have been reporting throughout the evening on an Israeli air strike hitting the main commercial market street of Nabaiteh, a major city in southern Lebanon.

Now, the country’s Health Ministry said at least eight people have been wounded there while rescue teams are still working to extinguish fires and remove the rubble that resulted from the strike.

Two people were injured in a separate Israeli air raid in Aitat, in the southern Tyre district, the ministry added.

The ministry added that four people were injured in Temnine, a village in the eastern Baalbek region as Israeli air strikes damaged three hospitals in the area. “For the third consecutive time today, the aggressive Israeli enemy has targeted the area surrounding the hospital,” an official from the Temnine General Hospital was quoted as saying by the Anadolu news agency.

The strikes “resulted in significant and severe damage to the hospital, in addition to injuring many patients present in the hospital due to flying glass and shrapnel”, Anadolu added.

In a statement, the country’s foreign ministry calls Israel’s attacks on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) “a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and relevant Security Council resolutions, especially Resolution 1701”.

Over the last three days, the Israeli army has fired on UNIFIL positions and wounded its personnel a number of times, drawing widespread international condemnation.

“The Ministry stresses the importance of preserving the security and safety of United Nations personnel and employees and respecting the sanctity of its premises, expressing its wishes for a speedy recovery for the injured, and stressing the need for serious action to identify those responsible for these violations and ensure that they do not escape accountability”, Kuwait’s statement reads, calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz says his decision to declare UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “persona non grata” won’t change despite opposition from more than 100 UN member states.

In a joint letter, 104 nations said Guterres had their “full support and confidence” and that Katz’s decision harmed the UN’s “ability to carry out its mandate” and “could further delay an end to all hostilities and the establishment of a credible path towards the two-state solution”.

The statement had little effect on the Israeli top diplomat who said on X that Guterres had failed to “condemn the Iranian missile fire on Israel” and cited what he called the UN chief’s “anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli behavior”.

On October 1, Iran launched 180 ballistic missiles at Israel in response to the killing of prominent figures close to Tehran, including Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s chief Hassan Nasrallah. Shortly after the attack, Guterres condemned the escalation of violence in the region but made no mention of Iran.

“Guterres can continue to try to collect signatures in support of him from members of the UN – the decision will not be changed,” Katz said.

Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s representative in Lebanon, has given a phone interview with our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

Here is a summary of some of the key points he made:

• The enemy [Israel] has prevented the entry of food supplies to the north for 10 days.
• The enemy tried to advance, but the resistance confronted it fiercely.
• The enemy’s decision is to besiege Jabalia for a long time to exhaust the people with hunger and thirst.
• What is happening in Jabalia camp is a crime against humanity.
• The occupation does not confront the resistance, but rather tries to kill the people.
• The occupation does not target Gaza alone and seeks to displace two million Palestinians.
• We seek to form a transitional administration from a national consensus government or a committee to manage the situation [after the war].

At least three people were killed in an attack by an Israeli drone missile on a group of people who were gathering around a water tank in Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, our correspondent on the ground reports.

Casualties arriving at the Al-Aqsa Hospital were shredded and fully soaked in blood, they said.

“Either you kill all of us or relocate us abroad,” a man on the scene told Al Jazeera. “Every day, we experience anguish over our relatives, neighbours and loved ones. We are suffocating … we are dying! Every day, we grieve the killing of someone new,” he said.

“Girls killed. Children torn to pieces. They are all gone. Put an end to this war, we can’t take it any more,” he added.

As we reported earlier, a large Israeli strike has been carried out on the central commercial area of Nabatieh, a major city in southern Lebanon.

Now, the Lebanese Red Cross says in a statement that its teams are responding to a “major air strike” in the city.

“Severe fires are preventing us from reaching the targeted area”, the statement reads, promising updates as the situation develops.

The Red Cross shared a photo of high flames in Nabatieh along with its statement: