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******** strikes ***** dozens in Lebanon and isolated northern Gaza while Netanyahu and Trump speak – National

******** strikes ******* dozens of people including children on Sunday in Lebanon and isolated northern 

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, as the world watched for signs of how the U.S. election might affect the war against Iranian-backed militant groups ****** and Hezbollah.

******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has spoken three times with Donald Trump since Tuesday’s election and they “see eye-to-eye regarding the Iranian threat and all of its components.” *******’s president, Isaac Herzog, is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday.

The ******** airstrike in Lebanon ******* at least 23 people including seven children in Aalmat village north of Beirut, far from the areas in the east and south where Hezbollah militants have a major presence. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said another six people were wounded. There was no ******** evacuation warning. There was no immediate ******** comment.

Hezbollah began ******* rockets, drones and missiles into ******* after war broke out in Gaza, in solidarity with the Palestinians and ******. ******* retaliated, and a series of escalations have led to all-out war.

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In northern Gaza, an ******** strike on a home sheltering displaced people in the urban ******** camp of Jabaliya ******* at least 17 people including nine women, according to Dr. Fadel Naim, director of Al-Ahly Hospital in Gaza City.

*******’s military said it targeted a site where militants were operating, without providing evidence. It said the details of the strike are under review.

A separate strike hit a house in Gaza City, ******** Wael al-Khour, a minister in the ******-run government, as well as his wife and three children, according to the Civil Defense, first responders who operate under the government.

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******* has struck deeper inside Lebanon since September, when it ******* Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as well as most of his top commanders. Hezbollah has expanded its rocket ***** from northern to central *******. The fighting has ******* over 3,000 people in Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry, and more than 70 people in *******.

After *******’s strike in Aalmat, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Beirut, legislator Raed Berro denied that any Hezbollah personnel or assets were in the building that was hit, adding: “The important people are on the front line resisting … It is impossible for them to be among people in civilian life.”

Hassan Ghaddaf, who lived next door and was lightly wounded, said displaced people were in the house that was struck.

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“I had seen them and got to know them the other day,” Ghaddaf said. “They were peaceful. On the contrary, they had someone from the Lebanese Internal Security Forces that works for the state, and we saw their garb and clothes in the rubble.”

In Syria, an ******** airstrike hit a residential building in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab and the Defense Ministry said seven civilians were *******, state news agency SANA reported. Britain-based opposition war monitor The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights suggested Hezbollah was targeted. ******* did not immediately comment.

Fears of famine in northern Gaza

The mid-month deadline is approaching for an ultimatum the Biden administration gave ******* to allow more aid into Gaza or risk possible restrictions on U.S. military funding.

******** forces have encircled and largely isolated Jabaliya and the nearby northern Gaza towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun for the past month, allowing only a trickle of humanitarian aid. Experts from a panel that monitors food security say famine is imminent or may already be happening.

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The northern third of Gaza, including Gaza City, has suffered the heaviest destruction of the 13-month war that was triggered by ******’ ******* into southern *******. ******* has sent forces back in after repeated operations, saying ****** has regrouped.

******** strikes often ***** women and children. The military says it only targets militants, whom it accuses of hiding among civilians.

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Also Sunday, *******’s military released what it said was video footage of ****** abusing detainees. The soundless footage, dated from 2018 to 2020, appears to show hooded detainees chained in stress positions. In some clips, men beat or poke them with batons.

It was not possible to independently verify the videos, which the military said it recovered during operations in Gaza.

Rights groups have long accused the ******-run government in Gaza and the Western-backed ************ Authority in the occupied West Bank of abusing detainees and violently quashing dissent. ******* has been accused of similar abuses, especially since the start of the war. ******** prison authorities say they follow relevant laws and investigate any allegations of wrongdoing.

The toll of war

The war in Gaza began when ******-led militants stormed into southern ******* on Oct. 7, 2023. They ******* some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250. Some 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, about a third believed to be *****.

*******’s offensive has ******* over 43,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities who do not distinguish between civilians and militants in their count but say over half the ***** were women and children.

******** bombardment and ground invasions have left vast areas of Gaza in ruins and displaced around 90% of the population of 2.3 million people, often multiple times. Hundreds of thousands of people live in tent camps with few if any services.

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Cease-***** talks mediated by the ******* States, Qatar and Egypt have repeatedly stalled, as have parallel efforts by the U.S. and others to halt the fighting between ******* and Hezbollah.

Qatar, a key mediator with ******, said Saturday it had suspended its efforts and would resume them when “the parties show their willingness and seriousness to end the brutal war.”

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