The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Saturday, August 17, that an Israeli strike in the Nabatieh area caused the death of at least nine people, including a woman and her two children. Five people were also injured in the strike, two of whom are in critical condition, the ministry said. The Israeli army said it had struck “a Hezbollah weapons warehouse” in the Lebanese region of Nabatieh, as well as “military structures” of the Islamist movement in the regions of Hanine and Maroun El Ras. Follow our live coverage.
According to the Gaza Civil Defense, 15 members of the same family, including nine children, were killed in an Israeli strike. All died in an airstrike on “their house and adjacent warehouses in al-Zawayda”said Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal, who identified the victims, nine of whom were aged between two and 17, as belonging to the Ajlah family.
Washington has presented a revised proposal for a ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Talks on a ceasefire and the release of hostages in Gaza will resume in Cairo next week, according to a joint statement from the United States, Qatar and Egypt. An agreement has not “never been so close”assured the American president on Friday, Joe Biden, who spoke with the Egyptian and Qatari leaders.
Antony Blinken expected in Israel. Joe Biden stressed in a statement that the head of American diplomacy will make a new diplomatic visit, “to stress that (…) the full ceasefire agreement and release of the hostages was in sight, no one in the region should act to undermine this process”.
France condemns attack on Jewish settlers in West Bank. “Any act that would destabilize a process of negotiation and conclusion of an agreement, in particular on the ceasefire” in Gaza in exchange for the release of hostages held in the war-torn Palestinian territory, “is unacceptable and even more unacceptable in this period that we are living through”said Stéphane Séjourné during a visit to Jerusalem.