Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza
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Evening recap

26 September 2024 23:36 BST

Hello Middle East Eye readers. On Thursday, Israel again intensified its air strikes across Lebanon, after Prime Minister Benjamin outright rejected a US-French proposal for a temporary truce between Israel and Hezbollah.

Israel began again to attack the southern Beirut suburbs with air raids, killing another senior Hezbollah commander.

There are different reports regarding Thursday's death toll inside Lebanon, but roughly speaking around 90 people were killed by Israeli strikes, while more than 150 were injured.

The Biden administration is continuing to push for a dialogue with Israel to push its truce proposal, while Israel's air force chief has said that he is preparing for the possibility of aiding Israeli ground forces in the advent of an invasion of Lebanon.

Since Monday, more than 700 people in Lebanon have been killed by the Israeli air strikes, while the Lebanese minister put the number of displaced people at around 250,000.

Hezbollah continued to respond with volleys of rockets at Israeli military installations and settlements. It's unclear how much damage those attacks have caused.

Here's what else you need to know from today's developments:

  • Hezbollah confirmed that Muhammad Hussein Surur, a commander of the group's aerial units, was killed by an Israeli air strike in Beirut's southern suburbs Thursday.

  • A missile was fired towards Tel Aviv from Yemen, and was intercepted by Israel's military. This is the second missile attack on Israel from Yemen this month.

  • A major Israeli air strike on a school in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza killed 15 people.

  • Another Israeli strike targeting a residential building in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza killed four people — a man, his wife and their two children with disabilities.

  • Norwegian police issued an international search request for a man linked to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah that exploded last week.

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reversed his position regarding a temporary truce agreement with Lebanon's Hezbollah, citing political pressure from his government, according to a Haaretz report.

  • Israel said it secured an $8.7bn aid package from the US to support its military. The package includes $3.5bn for essential wartime procurement and $5.2bn designated for air defence systems including the Iron Dome and an advanced laser system. MEE exclusively reported that Israel had submitted the request package on Tuesday.