Israel yesterday again carried out deadly airstrikes on northern Gaza, where the UN describes conditions as “apocalyptic”, while Lebanese Hezbollah intensified its rocket fire near the Israeli commercial center of Tel Aviv, on the second Israeli front.

Since late September, Israel has been engaged in a full-scale war against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, while fighting continues against the Palestinian armed group Hamas.

The war threatened to escalate further after Israel and Iran attacked each other in recent months. Iran’s supreme leader yesterday promised a further response to attacks against the Islamic republic and its allies.

Since October 6, Israeli forces have carried out a major air and ground attack on northern Gaza, centered on the Jabilia region, pledging to stop Hamas militants’ attempts to regroup.

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said yesterday that at least 43,314 people had been killed in the year-long war between Israel and Palestinian militants.

The toll includes 55 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry, which said 102,019 people have been injured in the Gaza Strip since the war began on October 7, 2023.

“The situation unfolding in northern Gaza is apocalyptic,” the heads of UN agencies said in a joint statement.

“The area has been under siege for nearly a month, deprived of basic aid and vital supplies, while bombings and other attacks continue,” officials from humanitarian, health and other agencies said.

“The entire Palestinian population in northern Gaza is at imminent risk of death from disease, famine and violence.”

Witnesses said Israeli warplanes struck Beit Lahia, near Jabilia, twice overnight.

The Israeli military said yesterday that dozens of militants had been killed around Jabilia “during air and ground activities.”

Troops were also operating in central Gaza and Rafah, in the far south of the territory, he added, while witnesses said Israeli drones and boats opened fire on Al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza.

Gaza Civil Defense medics and rescuers yesterday reported the deaths of three people in a strike in Nuseirat, central Gaza, a day after journalists’ photographs showed the bloodstained shrouds of several people killed there by an Israeli strike.

After nearly a year of retaliatory exchanges over Israel’s northern border, which Hezbollah said supported Hamas, Israel on September 23 intensified its bombing campaign against targets in Lebanon and subsequently sent ground troops.

Since then, Hezbollah has fired deeper into Israel.

A strike in Israel’s Sharon region, north of Tel Aviv, injured 19 people, police said yesterday, after the army reported that three projectiles had been fired from Lebanon into central Israel.

Four of the injured were “in moderate condition,” Israeli police said.

Hezbollah said it had again launched rockets at the Israeli intelligence base in Glilot, near Tel Aviv.

Images from Tira, a predominantly Arab town about 25 kilometers northeast of Tel Aviv, showed the upper wall destroyed by the wind in what appeared to be a residential building.

Several cars below were crushed.

The Israeli military said a strike Friday around the southern Lebanese city of Tire killed two fighters “responsible for firing more than 400 projectiles into Israel in the last month alone.”

On Friday evening, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said 52 people had been killed in Israeli strikes in the east of the country, attacks for which the Israeli army had not issued an evacuation warning.

Since the war intensified, Israeli strikes have killed at least 1,911 people in Lebanon, according to a count compiled by journalists using Health Ministry figures.

The Israeli army says 37 soldiers have been killed in Lebanon since its ground operations began on September 30.

According to Israeli figures, at least 63 people have been killed on the Israeli side since October last year.

Fears of a war that could engulf the entire Middle East have intensified with the exchange of rockets between Israel and Iran.

On October 26, Israel bombed military targets in Iran, killing four soldiers, in retaliation for the firing of around 200 missiles launched by the Islamic republic against Israel on October 1. in the Revolutionary Guard Corps.

“The enemies, both the United States and the Zionist regime, must know that they will certainly receive a brutal response for what they are doing against Iran, the Iranian nation and the resistance front,” the guide said Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

He was referring to groups aligned with Iran, which also include those in Yemen, Iraq and Syria.

Analysts say Israel has inflicted serious damage on Iran’s air defenses and missile capabilities and could yet launch larger-scale action against Iran.

On Saturday, the Israeli army announced that it had intercepted three drones over the Red Sea, after reporting Friday evening that seven drones had been launched from “multiple fronts.”

Pro-Iranian Iraqi groups said Saturday they had carried out a drone attack on the southern Israeli port city of Eilat.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have repeatedly attacked commercial shipping in the Red Sea, are transforming into a “powerful military organization” thanks to “unprecedented” military support from outside sources, including the Iran and Hezbollah, according to a published UN report. Friday.

On the eve of Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, U.S. officials have been pushing for a resolution to the Lebanon war.

On Friday, the Pentagon announced the deployment of additional assets to the Middle East, including ballistic missile defense destroyers and B-52 long-range bombers, serving as a warning to Iran.

The capabilities will begin arriving “in the coming months,” a Pentagon spokesperson said.