Israel-Gaza-Lebanon updates: Officials say 87 killed in Israeli strikes on Beit Lahia

Hezbollah in Lebanon launches rocket attacks on Israel, IDF says.

Last Updated: October 20, 2024, 3:20 PM EDT

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, was killed this week in a firefight with Israeli forces, officials said.

The development comes as Israel continues intense air and ground campaigns against Hezbollah in Lebanon and against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The uptick in offensive operations came as Israeli leaders planned their response to Iran's latest ballistic missile attack.

Oct 19, 2024, 2:43 PM EDT

Netanyahu calls drone attack 'attempt to assassinate me and my wife'

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the drone attack that targeted his house an "attempt to assassinate me and my wife," in a statement Saturday.

"The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake. This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future," Netanyahu said.

"Anyone who tries to harm Israel’s citizens will pay a heavy price. We will continue to eliminate the terrorists and those who dispatch them," Netanyahu said.

Hezbollah has not commented on the attack.

Oct 19, 2024, 2:08 PM EDT

Israel claims residents evacuated Jabalia, resident says they were forced to leave

Israel said "hundreds of civilians" have decided to leave Jabalia, in Gaza, through IDF-organized routes, but one woman told a local journalist that she and others were forced to leave.

Israel released a video showing multiple IDF tanks and military vehicles stationed outside schools next to the Indonesian hospitals where people were sheltering.

A video shows Palestinians lined up in front of the vehicles, with some moving to sit in a group next to the vehicles -- including at least two in wheelchairs -- and others moving away from the schools and down the road.

Israel said they "arrested a number of terrorists" and "detained them for investigation," although it's unclear if all the people in the seated group are under arrest. Photos released by the IDF show people around the schools with their hands up, holding ID papers, although it's unclear if they were arrested.

A woman, speaking to a local journalist farther south in Northern Gaza, said Israeli forces forcibly expelled them from the school. She said there were strikes and drones around the school overnight.

Israeli forces "took us, they first took all the males over 16, god knows where they took them, then they took us the women and made us walk a long distance with no food, no water," she said.

Oct 19, 2024, 12:21 PM EDT

At least 2,448 killed in Lebanon, 11,471 injured

At least 2,448 people have been killed and 11,471 were injured in Lebanon since Israel began its increased attacks on Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.

Of those dead, at least 36 people were killed in the last two days alone, the ministry said.

-ABC News' Josiane Hajj Mousa

Oct 19, 2024, 9:26 AM EDT

180 projectiles fired from Lebanon into Israel, new evacuation orders for Beirut suburb: IDF

At least one person was killed and 14 others were injured in rocket attacks launched from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Saturday, according to Israeli national emergency service MDA.

Some 180 projectiles fired by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory so far on Saturday, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

The rocket barrages targeted the Haifa area and the Western Galilee region. A 50-year-old man died after being struck by shrapnel while in his car in the port city of Acre, the MDA said.

Meanwhile, the IDF on Saturday afternoon issued new evacuation orders to residents of Dahiyeh, the densely populated southern suburb of Lebanon’s capital Beirut and a Hezbollah stronghold.

-ABC News' Clark Bentson and Dorit Long

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