What has happened in the last few hours
These are the main news of the day in the war in the Middle East at 9:00 p.m. this Saturday, October 19:
33 dead and dozens injured in Yabalia. At least 33 people have been killed and 85 injured in Israeli attacks this morning against the Jabalia refugee camp, north of the Strip, according to medical sources.
Israel evacuates hundreds of Palestinians from Jabalia amid new attacks that have left 33 dead. Israeli troops are evicting hundreds of Palestinians from Jabalia (northern Gaza) in the midst of an offensive against Hamas, as reported by the army through social networks.
Death toll from the Israeli offensive in the Strip increases to 42,519. 42,519 people have died in the Strip, victims of the military offensive launched by Israel more than a year ago, in response to the attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7. The Gaza Ministry of Health, linked to Hamas, has raised the provisional death toll this Saturday after adding another 19 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The Israeli offensive in Lebanon already leaves almost 780,000 internally displaced people, according to the UN. Israel’s offensive on Lebanon, which has intensified since the beginning of the month with the invasion of the south of the country and bombings in the south of the capital against the Shiite militia Hezbollah, has already left almost 780,000 internally displaced people, according to the latest United Nations report. United.
Scholz acknowledges to Erdogan the differences between Germany and Türkiye over the war in Gaza. The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has acknowledged during his visit to Turkey and to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the great differences between the points of view of both countries on the Gaza war. Scholz, a staunch ally of Israel, has explained that this country has “the right to defend itself.”
A UN rapporteur estimates that the reconstruction of Gaza could take 80 years. The UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, has warned that reconstruction in the Gaza Strip could take 80 years and has drawn attention to the extent of destruction due to Israeli attacks in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
At least four dead in an Israeli attack on a residential building in eastern Lebanon. At least four people have been killed, including the mayor of a village, in an Israeli attack on a residential building in the town of Maaloul, in eastern Lebanon, according to official sources. The Health Emergency Operations Center has assured in a statement that the Israeli incursion into the town located in the Bekaa region has caused at least four deaths and 13 injuries.
Netanyahu accuses Hezbollah and the axis led by Iran of trying to assassinate him and his wife. “The attempt by Hezbollah, Iran’s representative, to assassinate me and my wife today was a serious mistake,” said the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, after the impact of a drone launched from Lebanon in Caesarea, a town where The president has a private residence. “This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our war,” he adds in words released by his office.
