Gaza and Lebanon are working together to try to reach a cease-fire in the Middle East and in Israel, the foreign minister warned on Saturday

Israel’s military warned Palestinians to evacuate along the strategic Netzarim corridor in central Gaza that was at the heart of obstacles to a cease-fire deal. The military told people in parts of the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps to evacuate to Muwasi, a coastal area it has designated a humanitarian zone.

An Israeli airstrike killed two children in Gaza City’s Zaytoun neighborhood, according to the civil defense first responders’ group that operates under the Hamas-run government.

Nearly 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. It does not say how many were fighters, but there were a lot of women and children.

Israel launched a ground operation into southern Lebanon last week after Hezbollah’s leader was killed in a series of attacks. The fighting is worse than in the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. Nine Israeli soldiers have been killed in ground clashes that Israel says have killed 440 Hezbollah fighters.

The tents of the displaced families are close to the Corniche, which is just steps away from luxury homes. Om Ali Mcheik said that they don’t want to die at the hands of Netanyahu.

Some of the refugees from Syria forced to move on again by another round of conflict have had their lives shattered by new arrivals from the country’s south.

Associated Press journalists saw hundreds continuing to cross the Masnaa Border Crossing on foot, crunching over the rubble after Israeli airstrikes left huge craters in the road leading to it on Thursday. Hezbollah weaponry is believed to come from Iran.

The army said about 90 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israel. Police said that three people were lightly injured when several fell in Deir al-Asad.

On Saturday evening, Netanyahu said Israel had the right to defend itself and respond to the attacks. On Lebanon, he said ”we are not done yet.”

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told reporters in Damascus that “we are trying to reach a cease-fire in Gaza and in Lebanon.” The minister said the unnamed countries putting forward initiatives include regional states and some outside the Middle East.

Israel is still battling Hamas in Gaza a year after the group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and has opened a new front in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which has been trading fire with Israel along the border since the war in Gaza began. Iran launched a missile attack at Israel last week, and Israel promised to retaliate.

The Palestinian militant group claimed that an official with the Hamas military wing, his wife and two young daughters were killed in the attack on the northern Beddawi camp. Hamas later said another military wing member was killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley. The aftermath showed smashed buildings, scattered bricks and stairways to nowhere.

The strikes apparently targeted a building near the road leading to Lebanon’s only international airport and a building that was previously used by Al-Manar. Social media reports claimed that one of the strikes hit an oxygen tank storage facility, but this was later denied by the owner of the company Khaled Kaddouha.

After Israel’s military ordered residents in Dahiyeh to leave, there were strong explosions all over the place on Sunday. AP video showed the blasts illuminating the densely populated southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has a strong presence. They followed a lot of strikes and buzz of drones.

Thousands of people in Lebanon, including Palestinian refugees, continued to flee the widening conflict in the region, while rallies were held around the world marking the approaching anniversary of the start of the war in Gaza.

Palestinians killed in a knife and gun attack on a southern city of Beersheba as Israel prepares for the Oct. 7 attack

One person is dead and ten others are wounded in a knife and gun attack in the southern city of Beersheba on the eve of the ceremonies.

The attack came as Israel is on high alert ahead of memorial events marking the Oct. 7 attack, which set in motion a year of violent escalation across the region.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli strike on a mosque in the Gaza Strip early Sunday killed at least 19 people, Palestinian officials said, as Israel intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza and southern Beirut in a widening war with Iran-allied militant groups across the region.

A journalist counted the bodies at the Al- Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Hospital records showed that the dead from the strike on the mosque were all men.

The military said that Israeli forces encircled the town as warplanes struck militant sites inside. Over the course of the war, Israel has carried out several large operations there, only to see militants regroup.

Residents posted about the airstrikes and mourned their relatives on social media. Imad Alarabid said in a Facebook post that an airstrike on his home in Jabaliya killed a dozen family members, including his parents. A medic at the Health Ministry, named Ahmad, said he was wounded and bleeding.

A TV journalist who was working for Al Jazeera and other networks was killed when his house in northern Iraq was hit by shelling. Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter in northern Gaza, confirmed his death.

Israeli Army and Militant Forces Against the “Second Phase of War”: The Monitor of Gaza’s Humanitary Zone

The military says it has expanded the so-called humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, urging people to head there. Hundreds of thousands of people have already sought refuge in sprawling tent camps there with little in the way of food, water or toilets. Israel has carried out strikes in the humanitarian zone against what it says are militants hiding among civilians.

Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people in the Oct. 7 attack and took another 250 hostage. They are still holding around 100 captives, a third of whom are believed to be dead.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the area was hit by more than 30 strikes overnight, the heaviest bombardment since Sept. 23 when Israel escalated its air campaign.

Hezbollah said it successfully targeted a group of Israeli soldiers in northern Israel “with a large rocket salvo, hitting them accurately.” It wasn’t possible to confirm the claim.

The United States has provided vital military and diplomacy support to Israel. Iran-aligned groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen have joined in with strikes against Israel.

In the northern part of Gaza, the Israeli military dropped leaflets warning of a new phase of war, while commanders ordered hundreds of thousand of residents to leave the area.

The Israeli Attacks on Hamas in Lebanon and Lebanon’s First Pre-Med student Yasmin Riqad: “It’s All I Want”

“Tomorrow will be a good day, enough, world, enough, you know what it’s like.” said Hakima as she watched her dying father leave the mosque. We are tired. By God, we’re so tired.”

More Israeli troops are being moved to the border with Gaza to protect one-year commemoration ceremonies in communities affected by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks last year that killed some 1,200 people and saw more than 200 hostages taken into Gaza.

Riqad said there was no safe place. “The Israelis are bombing everywhere.” As he spoke, two young children in his family asked an adult relative if the bombs would reach them at the hotel where a politician affiliated with Hezbollah had granted shelter to them and other displaced families.

One man, Riqad, who only gave his first name out of concerns for his safety, had arrived four days ago with his family from the southern suburbs of Beirut, after earlier fleeing Israeli attacks near their home in the southern city of Tyre.

The impact on Lebanon’s society has been shocking. One pre-med student, who gave only her first name Yasmin, had started college only a month earlier.

“I thought it would be one of the best years of my life. I’ve worked so much to get to the university I am in,” she said. “Now, all I miss is my university days … the coffee there, my friends, studying in the library. Now, that’s all I want.