Hamas said its fighters fired machine guns and anti-tank rockets at Israeli forces in northern and southern Gaza early Tuesday as Israeli tanks and infantry attacked the enclave’s main city, raising concerns about the plight of Palestinian civilians.

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06:06The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released images of an airstrike on Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon. “IAF warplanes struck the infrastructure of Hezbollah terrorists, including weapons depots, their headquarters, as well as the group’s infrastructure in Lebanon,” the IDF said in a statement on X on Tuesday.

05:57Japan has imposed a series of sanctions against individuals and companies linked to the militant group Hamas in Gaza, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

The sanctions freeze the assets of individuals and companies that have helped finance Hamas and are in line with new sanctions announced by the United States government earlier this month.

These are the first sanctions Japan has imposed against Hamas since October 7.

05:45Hamas said its fighters fired machine guns and anti-tank rockets at Israeli forces in northern and southern Gaza early Tuesday as Israeli tanks and infantry attacked the enclave’s main city, raising concerns about the plight of Palestinian civilians. Witnesses say Israeli forces attacked Gaza City from two directions.

05:30 Reporters Without Borders said strikes on a group of journalists in southern Lebanon earlier this month, which left one dead, were deliberate and not random, with the journalists clearly identified as members of the press.

Reporters Without Borders has released the preliminary findings of its investigation, based on video evidence and eyewitness accounts, into two attacks that killed Reuters cameraman Issam Abdallah and wounded six Reuters, AFP and Al Jazeera journalists as they covered clashes on the southern border with Lebanon on October 13.

The report said the journalists were wearing helmets and vests marked “press”, as was the vehicle, and quoted surviving journalists as saying they saw an Israeli Apache helicopter flying above them.

The first shot killed Abdullah, while the second hit a car belonging to the Al Jazeera team, injuring journalists sitting nearby. Both came from the Israeli side of the border

01:24All humanitarian aid entering Gaza will be vetted

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office issued a statement reiterating that any humanitarian aid entering Gaza is inspected before entry.

“Humanitarian aid provides Israel with an important area of ​​activity to achieve its military objectives,” the office said in a statement, noting that the aid in question does not come from Israel but from international sources, via Egypt.

Israeli officials said an increase in aid to southern Gaza would further persuade civilians to move from the north.

The aid is food and medicine, which is physically checked by Israeli security sources before entry.

01:02An off-duty IDF soldier was detained on suspicion of murdering a Palestinian

An off-duty IDF soldier has been arrested on suspicion of shooting a Palestinian who was apparently picking olives, according to Sky News.

The Israel Defense Forces said there was a clash “between a number of Palestinians and Israeli civilians” near the village of As-Sawiya in the northern West Bank on Saturday.

00:33US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with Saudi Arabia’s Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman.

Sullivan emphasized “US President Joe Biden’s commitment to support the defense of America’s partners against threats from state and non-state actors, including those supported by Iran,” the White House said, according to the Times of Israel.

The White House added that Sullivan and Prince Khalid were discussing the war between Israel and Hamas, including the need for increased humanitarian aid to Gaza.

SUMMARY OF THE DAY

• Netanyahu: It’s time for war. There is no chance of a ceasefire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shaken by the country’s growing conflict, held a new press conference on Monday evening, saying he did not agree to a ceasefire and asked international public opinion to distinguish between the killing of innocents and collateral victims. which accompany any legitimate war.

• Israel’s army announced on Monday that it had freed a female soldier taken hostage by the Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, Israeli authorities said, as cited by Reuters. “This is further proof of our ability to reach the hostages,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, reiterating that “this will not be a short or easy war,” according to The Times of Israel.

• Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that he believed the United States was responsible for the “deadly chaos” in the Middle East after more than three weeks of war between Israel and Hamas that has left thousands dead, AFP reported.

• The US State Department said 45 aid trucks entered Gaza yesterday, bringing the total number to 150 since Israel’s “siege” of the region.

• Putin accuses Ukraine and its Western allies of involvement in anti-Israel incidents at Dagestan airport

• Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday called for a truce between Israel and Hamas.

• A White House spokesman said Monday that a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas “is not the right answer at this time” and that the Palestinian Islamist group “will be the only one who wins.”

• According to official figures, 1,400 Israelis died in this war and at least 239 people were kidnapped by Hamas. On the other hand, the Gaza Ministry of Health claims that more than 8,000 people have died since the beginning of the bombing