The Israeli military has issued an evacuation warning for residents throughout the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbeck, as well as surrounding areas and key roads in the Bekaa Valley. The area marked for evacuation includes the ancient Roman temple complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said more than 2,790 people have been killed and 12,700 injured since October 8, 2023, when Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel, provoking retaliation. Israeli ground forces invaded southern Lebanon in early October.

Several United Nations agencies on Tuesday rallied around their sister organization, UNRWA, which provides aid to Palestinian refugees, after Israel’s parliament moved to ban it in the coming months. The foreign ministers of Cyprus and Luxembourg say the UN agency for Palestinian refugees is “indispensable” in providing food, education and healthcare to Palestinians. The Turkish Foreign Ministry called Israel’s decision a “blatant violation of international law.”

US President Joe Biden’s administration said it was seeking an explanation from Israel over its Tuesday attack on a northern Gaza town that Palestinians say killed at least 88 people, including dozens of women and men. ‘children.

The death toll from more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has exceeded 43,000, Palestinian officials reported Monday, without distinguishing between civilians and combatants. The war between Israel and Hamas began after Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people – mostly civilians – and kidnapping 250 others.