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We're ending our live coverage for today, but before we go here are the latest headlines from across the Middle East:

In northern Lebanon, 21 people were killed in what the country's health ministry say was an Israeli strike in the town of Aitou - this would be the first time Israel has targeted the Christian-majority region in a year of hostilities. Israel is yet to comment.

Southern Lebanon saw "violent clashes" between Hezbollah and Israel in several locations close to the border, armed group Hezbollah says.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military said it found an 800m-long underground compound built by Hezbollah in south Lebanon, containing missiles, motorbikes and food supplies.

In Gaza, the UN Palestinian refugee agency said 10 people were killed this morning while waiting at a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp.

Israel has been operating in Jabalia in the past few days saying it aims to root out Hamas fighters who are trying to regroup. The UN has condemned the "large number of civilian casualties" in northern Gaza.

Meanwhile in Israel, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says it detected more than 100 rockets fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israel. Most were intercepted and some fell into open areas.

We will resume our coverage on Tuesday, and the news desk will continue to cover the latest on the conflict until then.

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As we told you earlier, an Israeli air strike on Sunday on the al-Aqsa hospital complex in central Gaza killed four people and injured dozens.

Israel says the facility was being used as a command centre by Hamas militants, something the group denies.

The BBC spoke to Oum Muhamed Wadi, a resident of the compound, who says her family has lost everything.

"They hit our tents, burnt our children, my things were burnt, my mattress was burnt, everything was destroyed, including my daughters' clothes. I no longer have any clothes for them," says Wadi.

Sobbing, she says she has nowhere to turn for help.

"Where should I take my daughters? Winter is coming. There's no bedding, no clothes, nothing, " Wadi says.

"Where is the world? Where should I go with my eight daughters? Where do I go?"

Jonathan Head
Reporting from Beirut

Most Israeli air strikes in Lebanon over the past week have struck in the south and the Bekaa Valley - areas where Hezbollah is strong. But today they went north.

"Oh mother Mary," gasps one man, as he walks through the devastation wrought on his village by what they presume was an Israeli bomb.

This was in Aitou, a Maronite Christian community in the mountains near Tripoli – not a place which might expect to be attacked.

In the smoke and dust bodies can be seen on the ground, while injured survivors gesture for help from rescuers. Residents say there was no warning, just a single, massive blast.

However, they also say several families displaced by the war in the Shiite south have recently moved to Aitou – and the house hit by the Israeli planes had been rented out to new people just two weeks ago.

Israel has vowed a tough response to the lethal drone attack on one of its military bases last night – three weeks into its campaign against Hezbollah it is still seeking and bombing dozens of targets across Lebanon every day, often with great accuracy but also high civilian casualties.

Hezbollah has warned its raid last night was just the start of what it is capable of and tonight more rockets were intercepted in Israel, coming from southern Lebanon.

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says accusations Israel deliberately attacked UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) personnel is "completely false".

He adds that Israel repeatedly asked Unifil to get out of harm's way and to temporarily leave the combat zone, right next to Israel's border with Lebanon.

On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops were responsible for an incident in which two Sri Lankan soldiers for Unifil were wounded and, in total, five UN peacekeepers have been wounded in Lebanon in recent days.

Netanyahu adds in a statement that "Hezbollah uses Unifil facilities and positions as cover while it attacks Israeli cities and communities".

"We regret any harm done to Unifil personnel and the IDF is doing its utmost to prevent such incidents," Netanyahu said. He repeated his request that Unifil evacuate and "get out of harm’s way".

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqai has condemned Israel's assault on a refugee camp in northern Gaza, labelling Israel's allies as "apologists" who should be held accountable for "enabling its impunity".

Baqai adds "the killing of innocent people queuing for food at the Jabalia camp, is yet another display of Israel's brutality".

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says the details of the incident are "under review". A spokesman for the Israeli military adds strikes and operations are directed "only against terror targets and operatives" and do not target civilians.

Operations in Jabalia have intensified during the past few days as the IDF says it is targeting regrouping Hamas fighters who aim to launch attacks.

Hamas and Hezbollah are both backed by Iran, with Tehran spending years building a network of armed groups across the Middle East opposed to Israel and the US.

On 1 October, Iran launched more than 180 ballistic missiles towards Israel, though the Israeli military said most of the missiles were intercepted.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say a high-ranking member of Hamas, Samer Abu Daqqa, was killed last month in a strike by the Israeli Air Force.

The Israeli military says Abu Daqqa, head of the Hamas aerial unit, was a key figure behind the paragliders and drones used in the 7 October attacks last year.

The Lebanese health ministry says the death toll from what it says was an Israeli strike in the northern town of Aitou has risen to 21.

DNA tests are under way to determine the identity of those killed in the strike, the ministry says., external

This would be the first time Israel has targeted the Christian-majority northern region in a year of hostilities.

The video below shows rescuers searching the rubble in Aitou after the strike.

Israel is yet to comment.

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemns the "large number of civilian casualties in the intensifying Israeli campaign in Northern Gaza", UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric says.

He adds Guterres "strongly urges" all those involved in the conflict to comply with international humanitarian law and emphasises "civilians must be respected and protected at all times."

Yolande Knell
Middle East correspondent, in Jerusalem

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Many Palestinians worry their plight is being forgotten as world attention shifts to fighting in other parts of the region, even as Israel has pressed on with its latest ground offensive in northern Gaza over the past 10 days.

“Unfortunately, now the whole focus is on Lebanon, on Iran on other places and Gaza is now being exterminated with nobody noticing us,” says a Palestinian medical professor, Khamis Elessi, in Gaza City. His voice messages were shared with me by his friend, the British surgeon, Dr Nick Maynard, who has worked with him in local hospitals.

“The bombardment is beyond imagination. No water, no food, no medicines, and forced evacuation of people under fire,” says Professor Elessi, calling for international pressure to stop forced Israeli transfers of the civilian population from the north.

Israel has been ordering people to leave Jabalia and the far north as it pushes on with a new ground offensive which it says is meant to root out Hamas fighters who are trying to regroup. Hamas - which has been running Gaza - has been telling people not to head south as it is too risky. Many locals also fear that if they leave their homes, they will never be able to return.

Despite official denials, there are widespread fears that a systematic Israeli plan is being implemented to move what the UN estimates are some 400,000 people from the northern third of the Palestinian territory and declare it a closed military zone.

“People are here frightened, they’re just running in the streets with no direction. At least they have to designate a safe area in Gaza City, in the northern part of Gaza, like they’ve done in the south and not force people to leave again and again and again,” Elessi comments.

Wyre Davies
Reporting from Jerusalem

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For more than a week, Israeli forces have been conducting heavy strikes against parts of northern Gaza which, says Israel, are focused on remaining Hamas positions. But hundreds of people - including many civilians - have been killed in the attacks.

The UN said 10 people were killed this morning while waiting at a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp.

The UN Human Rights Office has now accused Israel of “trapping tens of thousands of Palestinians, including civilians, in their homes and shelters, with no access to food or other life-sustaining necessities".

The strongly-worded statement also says Israeli troops have fired on civilians trying to flee the area which could amount to a “war crime.”

There’s been no official response yet from Israel.

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The Israeli military says it has found an 800m-long underground compound being used by Hezbollah as a command centre in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah fighters were going to use the underground centre as a base from which to cross into Israel and carry out attacks, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said.

The IDF said it found helicopter-fired missiles in the compound as well as mortar shells, motorcycles, living quarters, and a kitchen stocked with enough food for a long-term stay.

During the raid on the underground compound, Israeli soldiers killed a Hezbollah fighter embedded there, the IDF adds.

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Israel's defence minister Yoav Gallant told his US counterpart Lloyd Austin Israel would deliver a "forceful response" to Hezbollah, according to a statement from the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

This follows a drone attack by Hezbollah on an Israeli army base on Sunday night, which resulted in the deaths of four soldiers.

Gallant spoke to Austin overnight and "highlighted the severity of the attack and the forceful response that would be taken against Hezbollah", the statement reads.

Meanwhile, the US Department of Defence said that, during the call, Austin "reaffirmed the deep US commitment to Israel's security" and expressed the importance of "a diplomatic pathway to provide security for civilians on both sides of the border".

Earlier we brought you reports of an attack today on a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

The UN's Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, has just released more information, saying "the Israeli army fired shells inside and outside the centre", killing 10 people and injuring 40.

The UN agency said this happened "while hungry people were trying to get food from inside the centre".

The Israeli military (IDF) has intensified its military operations in Jabalia during the past few days, saying it is targeting regrouping Hamas fighters who aim to launch attacks.

The IDF said the details of the incident at the distribution centre are "under review", with a spokesman adding that strikes and operations are directed "only against terror targets and operatives" and do not target civilians.

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Pictures are starting to come through from the site of a reported Israeli strike in Aitou, which the Lebanese Red Cross says has killed 18 people.

The scene in northern Lebanon shows Red Cross vehicles parked nearby, with debris spread across the area. Other vehicles can be seen destroyed at the site of the strike.

As reported earlier, the strike, which Lebanese officials say was carried out by Israel, would be the first time Israel has targeted the Christian-majority region in the year of fighting since the Hamas attacks on 7 October last year.

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• The Lebanese Red Cross says18 people were killed in fresh strikes hitting the country's northern town of Aitou today. The strike, which Lebanese officials say was carried out by Israel, would mark the first time Israel has targeted the Christian-majority northern region in a year of hostilities, according to news agency Reuters
• It comes after Israel experienced one of the deadliest attacks launched against it by Hezbollah in a year of fighting, after a drone attack killed four Israeli soldiers at an army base south of Haifa on Sunday night
• In response, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant says the military will learn from this
• Separately, Israel has reported shooting down two drones launched from Syria
• In Gaza's northern Jabalia refugee camp a food distribution centre was reportedly targeted by Israel, with 10 people killed and 30 injured, according to Palestinian medics.

In the last few minutes, the IDF has said sirens warning of incoming missiles are sounding across central Israel, including in Tel Aviv.

"Alerts were activated in several areas in the centre of the country following launches that crossed into the country from Lebanon, the details are under investigation", the military wrote on X.

In a follow-up post, the IDF said that three launches were detected from Lebanon and "all threats were intercepted".

There are no known casualties, it said.

As we reported earlier, a shelter in Gaza hit by an air strike yesterday was supposed to be used today to administer polio vaccines, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.

At least 22 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli air strike, including 15 children, the Hamas-run Civil Defence Authority said.

The attack has left the site unusable for vaccinations on Monday, a spokeswoman for UNRWA told the BBC earlier.

Describing "another night of absolute horror" for people in Gaza, Louise Wateridge says the facility would have been used today to vaccinate "thousands of children under the age of ten".

The UN is carrying out the second of two stages in its polio vaccination campaign in central Gaza, where most residents are now living. This forms part of a wider rollout initiated after a confirmed case earlier this year - the first for 25 years in Gaza.

UN officials are pressing for humanitarian pauses to be respected during the vaccination drive.

The Israeli military says it is investigating after several rockets were fired into Karmiel, a city in northern Israel.

The IDF says around 15 rockets were fired into the area. While most of the rockets were intercepted, several impacted, it adds.

Police say rockets may have struck property in Karmiel, adding they are investigating multiple sites in the area. There may be casualties, they say, but no details about injuries have been provided so far.

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Hezbollah says its fighters are engaged in “violent clashes” with Israeli forces in the town of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.

The Iran-backed group said in a statement on Telegram it is engaged in clashes with “various types of machine guns, rockets, and artillery shells”.

It added later that fighters had targeted an Israeli troop carrier with a guided missile - killing or injuring those inside. The IDF has not yet commented.

It is one of a number of attacks the group launched on Monday. Rockets were fired at a barracks south of the Israeli town of Binyamina, where four Israeli soldiers were killed by a drone strike on Sunday. It is not known if there have been any casualties.

Hezbollah also reported firing at the Stella Maris naval base near Haifa.

The Israeli military, meanwhile, said on Monday that its air force had hit 200 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

Thomas Copeland
Live reporter

We brought you news earlier that a drone strike killed four Israeli soldiers last night, marking one of the deadliest attacks by Hezbollah since the war began.

In Beirut, residents say they are now bracing for Israel's response.

“Everyone is fearful since no one knows who or where will be their next target,” says Hasan Awada. “My friends just listen to the news and ask, 'Where will they strike next? Are they going to target new areas?'"

Awada, 35, moved his family out Beirut’s southern suburbs after the area was struck by Israel last week. He hasn’t returned to the house since, because “you never know when you might get bombed,” he tells me.

His neighbour says the house is still standing.

“I returned to Lebanon three months ago, hoping to finally settle down and build a life with my family,” Awada says, “but everything was torn apart.”

“Now I live day by day, without ambition, just hoping to stay safe.”