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Israeli forces kill Palestinian journalist and his entire family in airstrike on house in Khan Younis – reports

We are seeing reports that Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil, a Palestinian journalist, and his wife and three children were killed at dawn on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike on their home Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

These reports – which we have not yet independently verified – are from Al Jazeera and a correspondent from the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Under international law, journalists are protected civilians who must not be targeted by warring parties.

But more than 200 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.

Lebanon says three dead, seven injured after Israeli attack on Beirut

At least three people have been killed and seven injured in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs early on Tuesday, the Lebanese health ministry said, further testing a shaky four-month ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

The Israeli military said in a statement that it attacked a Hezbollah militant “who had recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them”.

Reuters reported that the attack took place a few days after a previous strike by Israel on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital.

There was no immediate statement from Hezbollah on the identity of the target. But a source close to the Iran-backed Lebanese group told AFP the strike had targeted Hassan Bdair, an official overseeing its Palestinian affairs.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned the attack on Tuesday, calling it a “dangerous warning” that signals premeditated intentions against Lebanon.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said it was a “clear breach” of a ceasefire that largely ended more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

We will be bringing you more reaction as we get it. In other developments:

Palestinians held funerals on Monday for 15 medics and emergency responders killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza, after their bodies and mangled ambulances were found in a mass grave. The Palestinian Red Crescent says the slain workers and their vehicles were clearly marked as medical and humanitarian personnel and accused Israeli troops of killing them “in cold blood.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Tuesday he has reversed his decision, announced a day earlier, to appoint former navy chief Vice Admiral Eli Sharvit as the new head of the Shin Bet security agency. The move was controversial as the supreme court had blocked moves to oust the incumbent chief, Ronen Bar.
A 17-year-old from the West Bank who was held in an Israeli prison for six months without being charged died after collapsing in unclear circumstances, becoming the first Palestinian teen to die in Israeli detention, officials said. Walid Ahmad was a healthy high schooler before his arrest in September for allegedly throwing stones at soldiers, his family said.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed on Tuesday that they shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone, even as the US kept up its campaign of intense airstrikes targeting the group. The reported shootdown over Yemen’s contested Marib governate came as airstrikes hit around Sanaa, the country’s rebel-held capital, and Saada, a stronghold for the Houthis. US President Donald Trump issued a new warning to both the Houthis and their main benefactor, Iran, describing the group as having “been decimated” by the campaign of strikes that began March 15.

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