LIVE ISRAEL. Israeli army confirms that target was ambulance: “Vehicle was used by Hamas” – Toll looks heavy: “15 dead and 60 injured” | Israel-Palestine conflict

The Israeli army said on Friday: repelled an attack from Lebanon. A Lebanese “terror cell” is said to have tried to… to fire anti-tank missiles at Kibbutz Yiftah in northern Israel, but the army was able to prevent the attack, Telegram reports. There is also talk of one Lebanese infiltrator near the border with Israel, but he was reportedly killed by an Israeli fighter plane.

Since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian extremist organization Hamas on October 7, the conflict between Israel and Lebanon has also flared up. In the border area there are increasing confrontations between the Israeli army and the pro-Iranian Shia militia Hezbollah, which has ties to Hamas. There have already been casualties on both sides.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel on Friday against a military escalation. “All options are on the table,” he said in a speech. However, no declaration of war occurred.

Being at an Israeli attack on a school in the north of the Gaza Strip twenty people died. This is what the Palestinian health ministry says, which is under the control of the extremist movement Hamas.

According to Hamas, the attack was purposefully focused on the school. In addition to the twenty deaths, there would also be dozens of people were injured.

The school was used by Gaza residents as a hideout for the bombings from Israel, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a press release.

According to the ministry, there are still Friday 15 people killed in an Israeli attack on an ambulance which stood at the entrance to Gaza’s largest hospital. 60 people are also said to have been injured. This was mentioned in an earlier balance sheet 13 dead and 26 injured. According to Israel, the vehicle was used by a Hamas terrorist cell.

A senior figure within the White House states that there is one “significant pause in the conflict” between Israel and Hamas is necessary to free the more than 240 Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip. There are currently ongoing “very serious conversations”the source said during a telephone interview with the American press.

An agreement on such a pause in the conflict has not yet been reached not in sight. There is also, according to the highly placed source there is no certainty that the parties involved will reach an agreement.

US President Joe Biden has already indicated several times not to call for a general ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been bombing its territory continuously since the Hamas terrorist attack on its territory on October 7. The Americans do argue in favor humanitarian breaksincluding to give civilians the opportunity to flee and to get foreigners in Gaza out of the country via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

The latter has only recently started because, according to the Americans, Hamas has a evacuation list of Palestinian wounded a third of whom turned out to be Hamas members and fighters. “That was unacceptable for Egypt, for us, for Israel.”

The humanitarian pauses should make it possible to free the Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, President Biden said earlier. According to the source within the White House, Washington state in constant contact with Israel and state the Americans “tough questions” about Tel Aviv’s military targets. Thanks to that dialogue, Israel has “initial plans significantly adjusted”it sounded, without going into detail.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not want a “temporary truce” without the hostages being released, he said on Friday.

The number of victims at the Shifa hospital in Gaza is increasing significantly, according to the local Ministry of Health. There are now 15 dead and 60 injured. However, the institution is under the control of Hamas, so the figures cannot be independently verified.

The Israeli army meanwhile admitted that the target of the airstrike was an ambulance. “The vehicle was used by a Hamas terrorist cell and several terrorists were actually killed,” it said.

A new airstrike in Gaza would again have caused several deaths and injuries. This time a school was targeted where people who had fled had taken up residence. Many children are said to be among the victims.

The local Ministry of Health, which is under Hamas control, is now releasing its own assessment. The airstrike on the ambulance at the Shifa hospital in Gaza reportedly left 13 dead and 26 injured. WHO CEO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reacts shocked. “Patients, hospital staff and ambulances must be protected at all times. Ceasefire now,” it said.

The Israeli army confirms that the target of the airstrike at Gaza’s Shifa hospital was an ambulance. “The vehicle was used by a Hamas terror cell and several terrorists were actually killed. We will release additional information about this soon, but we work together with intelligence services on these types of matters. It is a proven method of Hamas to, among other things, put weapons in ambulances to transport,” it said in a statement.

“We emphasize that this is a war zone. Citizens in the region have been repeatedly urged to move further south for their own safety.”