Israel lebanon news live: Israel claims head of Palestinian terror group dead

Israel lebanon news live: Israel has announced that it has killed the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in an airstrike in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the central West Bank on Thursday, The Times of Israel reported.

The IDF said that alongside Muhammad Abdullah, another terrorist was killed but would not reveal his name.

Abdullah was made the head of the Iran-backed terror group in the Tulkarem-area camp after his predecessor Muhhamad Jabber was killed in a gunbattle in August.

Israel lebanon news live: The first of two naval ships evacuating Turkish citizens and their families from war-torn Lebanon docked at a port in southern Turkey late on Thursday.

Turkey is estimated to have 14,000 citizens registered with its consulate in Lebanon and has pledged to carry out more evacuations if necessary

Israel lebanon news live: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is scheduled to meet with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat today.

During the meeting with Pezeshkian, Putin plans to discuss the abruptly escalated situation in West Asia.

Israel lebanon news live: Canada, on Thursday said that Israeli troops firing on U.N peacekeepers was "alarming and unacceptable."

The UNIFIL force said two of its peacekeepers were injured when an Israeli tank fired at a watchtower at the force's main headquarters in Ras al-Naqoura.

"Canada calls for the protection of peacekeepers and humanitarian workers, and for all parties to comply with international humanitarian law," the foreign ministry said in a statement on X.

Israel lebanon news live: European Union chief Charles Michel condemned Israel's attacks on UN peacekeepers headquarters in south Lebanon.

"An attack against a UN peace mission is not responsible, is not acceptable and that's why we call on Israel and we call on all sides to fully respect international humanitarian law," he told AFP on the sidelines of a Southeast Asian summit in Laos.

: Israel’s security cabinet met on Thursday night to discuss how to retaliate against Iran for its missile attack last week.

A final decision on the timing of the strike was to be made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, public broadcaster Kan said.

Key ally, USA, has tried to persuade Israel to use “appropriate force”, however they have refused to stand down until their military goals are achieved.

Israel lebanon news live: A series of strikes hit Gaza on Thursday, killing at least 27 and injuring several others.

The first strike, on a school sheltering the displaced in the Gaza Strip, killed a child and seven women, Palestinian officials said.

Israel continues to fire at what it says are militant targets across Gaza.

22 people were also killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut on the same day.

Israel lebanon news live: France, US have backed the UN's call for strengthening Lebanon's army.

United Nations Security Council, along wit the US and France, has said it is key to provide peace on the country's border with Israel.

Deputy U.S. ambassador Robert Wood told a meeting of the 15-member Security Council that the international community must focus its efforts on strengthening Lebanese state institutions.

"The solution to this crisis is a not a weaker Lebanon. It's a strong and truly sovereign Lebanon, protected by a legitimate security force, embodied in the Lebanese Armed Forces," he said.

Israel lebanon news live: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday that de-escalation was needed in the Middle East, amid Israel's aggression against Gaza and Lebanon.

We have got to reach a ceasefire," Harris told reporters as she departed Las Vegas. Previous talks of a ceasefire mediated by the US government fell through after strikes and counterstrikes by Israel and Iran.

Israel lebanon news live:Israeli airstrikes hit two neighbourhoods in Beirut on Thursday evening, killing 22 people and wounding 117, Lebanon's health ministry said.

The air raid targeted two neighbourhoods - Ras al-Nabaa area and Burj Abi Haidar area, and brought down one eight-story building.

The air raids were, reportedly, an attempt to kill Wafiq Safa, a top security official with the militant group, though Hezbollah's Al Manar TV confirmed that Safa was not in the buildings that were bombed.

Israel lebanon news live: After the death of top Hezbollah leaders, including Hassan Nasrallah, IRGC chief Brigadier Esmail Qaani is being interrogated on suspicion of being a mole for Israeli forces, reported UK newspaper the Sun.

Qaani has been missing after the deaths of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Saffiedine and sources told The Sun that Qaani was being questioned while under house arrest, under suspicion of spying for Israel.

: On Thursday, the Israeli military also fired on UN peacekeeper headquarters in the town of Naqoura, hitting an observation tower and wounding two peacekeepers, who had to be hospitalized.

Israeli forces have been at odds with the UNIFIL, UN's peacekeeping force in Lebanon, after it started a ground invasion on October 1, which was obstructed by peacekeepers on the border who refused to budge.