Global calls for restraint have emerged as 492 people are reported dead in the past 24 hours:
- At least 492 people, including 35 children, have been killed in a day of unrelenting Israeli attacks on Lebanon, according to the country’s Health Ministry.
- At least 1,645 were wounded.
World leaders and the United Nations call for urgent de-escalation, with Turkey warning Israel’s attacks on Lebanon could “drag entire region into chaos”. - In the Gaza Strip, Israeli air attacks killed at least 24 people over the past day, including a mother and her four children in Deir el-Balah.
- At least 41,431 people have been killed and 95,818 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number of those killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 was at least 1,139 while more than 200 people were taken captive.
- Two senior Hezbollah commanders have been killed.