Updates: Israel targets rescuers in Lebanon, kills 24 in Gaza

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We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of the day’s major developments:

• Israeli forces targeted Salah al-Din School, in the centre of Gaza City, which was sheltering thousands of Palestinians who fled the Israeli siege in northern Gaza.
• A special UN committee has issued a new report that points to Israel’s warfare practices in Gaza being “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”.
• The Israeli army has claimed air strikes on Syria’s capital, Damascus, that killed at least 15 people. It said they were targeting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed group.
• Hezbollah has claimed its first attack on a military base in Tel Aviv, some 120km (74 miles) from the border with Lebanon.
• At least 12 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a civil defence centre in the vicinity of Lebanon’s city of Baalbek.
• US ambassador to Lebanon presented a draft proposal for a ceasefire in Lebanon to the parliament speaker, official sources told Al Jazeera.

The US has blacklisted 26 entities, individuals and ships that it claims comprise a network associated with Syria-based al-Qatirji Company, which has alleged ties with the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Houthis in Yemen.

The Treasury Department said the Syrian conglomerate was responsible for generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the Quds Force and the Houthis through the sale of Iranian oil to Syria and China.

The company was previously designated for allegedly facilitating the sale of fuel between the Syrian government and ISIL (ISIS). Sanctions on it are now being expanded, the US said.

The latest US sanctions include vessels with flags from Iran, Guyana, Palau, Panama and Barbados. The Treasury said some of the blacklisted vessels are managed and operated by India-based and Panama-based entities.

Senior US officials issued an ultimatum to Israel, saying that Washington could halt arms supplies if it did not allow more aid into Gaza.

But the deadline has passed and humanitarian organisations say the situation is only getting worse.

So, why doesn’t the US act? And can anyone else hold Israel to account?

Watch the discussion below:

Israel’s army has accused Human Rights Watch of “anti-Israel bias and factual distortion” after the group said Israel’s displacement of Palestinians in Gaza amounts to a “crime against humanity”.

“This report, like many before it, both selectively presents information in a manner that obscures context, as well as makes certain blatant misrepresentations,” the Israeli army said in a statement.

The report said that Israeli authorities have caused a forced displacement of Palestinian people in Gaza to an extent that constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity.

“Human Rights Watch found that forced displacement has been widespread, and the evidence shows it has been systematic and part of a state policy. Such acts also constitute crimes against humanity,” the report said.

Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has written to PM Netanyahu to say he should consider firing far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over ongoing interventions into police work.

She argued that the minister’s conduct could “compromise the ability to ensure that the police act in the public interest and not in the service of political rank”.

According to the attorney general, Ben-Gvir has been misusing his power, also making appointments and ending tenure of police officers in a way that intervenes in operational matters.

The firebrand far-right minister quickly shot back, calling the move an “attempted coup” by the attorney general.

The first Palestinian American woman to serve in the US Congress says Antony Blinken must resign as secretary of state after his deadline for Israel to ramp up aid to Gaza passed without any consequences.

Rashida Tlaib, pointing to a picture of a starving Palestinian child, said Blinken set a 350 trucks per day goal for humanitarian aid, but only 57 trucks entered per day in October – even if official Israeli figures can be taken at face value.

“This week, Mr Speaker, Secretary Blinken exposed his lie by announcing that there will be no change to any policy, despite admitting that the Israeli government has failed to comply with all of their demands,” Tlaib said.

“Secretary Blinken has continued to lie to Congress and should resign.”

US law is clear: No nation blocking US humanitarian aid can receive US weapons.

Palestinian children are forced to eat pet food and bug infested flour, but @SecBlinken says there’s no need to change our policy. The Biden administration is refusing to comply with US law. pic.twitter.com/Nfu1LTtl0V

— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) November 14, 2024

Videos circulating on social media show Israeli football fans clashing with French spectators during their teams’ match at Stade de France in Paris.

Some of the footage, which has been verified by Al Jazeera, showed Israeli fans beating up the French fans in the stands.

Videos showed the stadium was mostly empty before the start of the match due to security concerns following violent clashes in Amsterdam after a football match last week.

Others showed fans booing and whistling while the Israeli national anthem played. Some clips pointed to clashes outside the stadium as well.

Israeli media reported that internal security agency Shin Bet’s chief Ronen Bar accompanied the Israeli team to France and was at the stadium.

Grosses échauffourées en tribunes. Des supporters israéliens semblent avoir attaqués des supporters français. À suivre…. #FRAISR #France_Israel pic.twitter.com/keKFD3jbZE

— Thomas Rannou (@Thomas_Rannou_) November 14, 2024

Translation: Major scuffles in the stands. Israeli supporters appear to have attacked French supporters. To be continued …

A letter calling on President Biden to sanction far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich before he departs the White House in January has been signed by 88 Democratic lawmakers.

The letter, which was submitted on October 29 but publicised today, expressed deep concern about “the rise in settler violence, settlement expansion, and measures adopted to weaken the Palestinian Authority and otherwise destabilise” the occupied West Bank.

It said the two ministers have been fuelling violence in the occupied territory, which has consisted of multiple Israeli attacks and raids per day, during which homes are destroyed, livestock are stolen and Palestinians are killed or wounded.

“With radical officials in the Netanyahu government continuing to enable settler violence and enact annexationist policies, it is clear that further sanctions are urgently needed,” the lawmakers wrote.

Eight Jewish lawmakers are also among the signatories.

Footage filmed by Lebanese TV station Al Jadeed shows the aftermath of the Israeli raid that targeted a civil defence centre in the vicinity of the city of Baalbek, in the Baalbek-Hermel governorate.

At least 12 people have been killed in the attack.

مشاهد للدمـار على بلدة دورس في بعلبك pic.twitter.com/TOUErXc5HS

— Al Jadeed News (@ALJADEEDNEWS) November 14, 2024

Translation: Scenes of destruction in the town of Douris in Baalbek.

Israeli police suspect that PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, tried to alter the timelines of the leader’s conversation surrounding the October 7 attacks.

Braverman sought to access the transcripts and timestamps of the calls between Netanyahu and his military secretary Avi Gil to change them in favour of Netanyahu, according to Israeli news outlet Haaretz.

Netanyahu was reportedly first informed of the Hamas attack around 6:29am shortly after air raid sirens sounded across the country, and had two conversations with Gil.

Several weeks after the attack, Gil received information that Braverman had approached a staff member in the PM’s office to gain access to one of the conversations, which took place on a secure phone. Gil reported the matter to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.

Earlier this week, it was reported that Braverman was at the centre of a case involving the alleged extortion of a senior officer in Netanyahu’s military secretariat to gain access to the logs of meetings held early in the war.

At least six people, including four paramedics, have been killed in an Israeli strike on the town of Arabsalim, in southern Lebanon, the Ministry of Health said.

The National News Agency reported several strikes in southern Lebanon, including one in the centre of Nabatieh that destroyed a commercial complex.

Belgium’s foreign ministry strongly condemned a statement by Israel’s far-right economy minister, Bezalel Smotrich, calling for “exercising sovereignty” over the occupied West Bank.

“Annexation of the West Bank flagrantly violates international law and the rights of the Palestinian people. This unnecessary provocation only further escalates the conflict,” the ministry said.

Earlier today, Hamish Falconer, the UK’s minister for the Middle East and North Africa, also condemned the Israeli move.

Belgium strongly condemns the statements by Minister Smostrich calling for "exercising sovereignty" over #WestBank. Annexation of the West Bank flagrantly violates int’l law & the rights of the Palestinian people. This unnecessary provocation only further escalates the conflict. pic.twitter.com/UfZIEoNalB

— 🇧🇪 Belgium MFA (@BelgiumMFA) November 14, 2024

Here’s a recap of the latest developments:

• At least four Palestinians, including children, have been killed when Israeli drones bombed a tent housing displaced people in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
• An Israeli air strike has targeted the civil defence centre in the vicinity of the city of Baalbek, in Lebanon’s Baalbek-Hermel governorate. At least 12 people have been killed.
• A special UN committee has issued a new report that points to Israel’s warfare practices in Gaza being “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”.
• The World Bank said damages due to the conflict in Lebanon have amounted to an estimated $8.5bn, and that it is activating an “emergency response”.
• US Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa A Johnson has presented a draft proposal for a ceasefire in Lebanon to to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, officials sources told Al Jazeera.

US State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel has rejected the findings of the report by the UN that Israel is carrying out a genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

“This is something we would unequivocally disagree with. We think that kind of phrasing and those kinds of accusations are certainly unfounded,” he told reporters about the report that also said Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war.

Patel also questioned a report by Human Rights Watch that said Israel’s forcible displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians amounts to “crimes against humanity”.

Hezbollah has claimed a drone attack on Eliakim, in northern Israel, which Israeli media earlier said had injured at least two people.

Hezbollah said in a statement that Eliakim was home to a military base that included training camps for the Northern Region Command in the Israeli army.

It said it “accurately” hit the target with a squadron of drones.