Israel-Palestine conflict: Latest updates

By Rabia Ali

ISTANBUL (AA) - The Israel-Palestine conflict enters its 13th day with continuous airstrikes by Israeli forces across the Gaza Strip amid reports of a coming land operation.

- The fighting

GAZA CITY

• Israeli warplanes strike home near UNRWA school, killing nine, including seven children.

• Israeli raids on residential buildings in Rafah leave 20 Palestinians dead, say eyewitnesses.

• Four Palestinians die in overnight raids by Israeli soldiers on West Bank refugee camps.

• Israeli army completes preparations to carry out ground offensive in Gaza, local media reports.

- Israel-Lebanon clashes

• Lebanese Hezbollah says two of its members were killed in clashes with Israeli army in southern Lebanon.

• Israel launches attacks against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.

- Conflict in numbers

• Number of Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israeli forces reaches 3,478.

• In West Bank, at least 69 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.

• Israel official death stands at 1,300.

- Diplomatic and political front

WASHINGTON:

• President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt agrees to allow 20 trucks of humanitarian aid into Gaza, says US President Joe Biden.
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• Senior US State Department official resigns over Biden's handling of ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

NEW YORK

• US vetoes UN Security Council draft resolution put forward by Brazil demanding humanitarian pauses to Gaza conflict.

• Israel perpetrating massacres in Gaza every single day, Palestine's envoy tells UN.

JEDDAH

• Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) calls for immediate cessation of Israel's "barbaric" aggression against Palestinians.

ANKARA

• Türkiye declares three days of national mourning in honor of Palestinians killed in recent attacks on Gaza, says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

LONDON

• British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Thursday.

- International reaction

WASHINGTON

• Scores of pro-Palestine demonstrators were arrested after taking part in unauthorized demonstration in rotunda of Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill.

ROME

• Hundreds protest against deadly Israeli attack on hospital in Gaza, attacks on Palestinian territories.

LONDON

• Mass demonstration of 5,000 people was held in London to protest Israeli airstrike on Gaza hospital.

ISTANBUL

• Protesters gather in front of US Consulate in Istanbul to demonstrate against Israeli attack on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.

ALBERTA

• Large crowd of pro-Palestine protesters stage sit-in in Canadian city of Edmonton, capital of Alberta province, as lawmaker calls for an end to the "butchery."