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Over now to Gaza, where the Hamas-run civil defence agency says it has recovered 15 bodies after an Israeli strike on the Jabalia refugee camp.

Local media report that a photographer from Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV has also been killed in the area.

The attack on Jabalia is now in its fifth day. Israel's military says it is targeting Hamas operatives in the camp.

It's the third time Israeli forces have entered Jabalia and its refugee camp in the past year, with the last operation in May displacing tens of thousands and killing hundreds.

Gaza’s health ministry says 45 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 42,010, with 97,720 injured since 7 October last year.

In the last hour, Hezbollah has confirmed firing more rockets into northern Israel.

The group says it fired a "large rocket barrages" at Amnon, north of Tiberias, as well as at Safed this afternoon.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it identified about 90 launches from Lebanon including in the Upper Galilee and Western Galilee area. It says they intercepted some of them, while crashes were detected and firefighters are working to put out fires.

As we reported earlier, two Israeli civilians were killed by Hezbollah rocket fire in the town of Kiryat Shmona, close to the border.

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US President Joe Biden and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have begun speaking, Netanyahu's office says.

As our correspondent Yolande Knell explained earlier, it's understood that Biden and Netanyahu haven’t spoken directly for several weeks - with suggestions that the two leaders’ relationship has become increasingly testy and mistrustful.

Some Israeli and US media are reporting that US Vice-President and presidential nominee Kamala Harris is joining Biden on the call.

Netanyahu's office says he also spoke with Donald Trump a week ago, after the former president called him "and congratulated him on the determined and powerful actions that Israel carried out against Hezbollah".

We'll bring you more detail when we have it.

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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says it has "destroyed" a rocket launcher that fired projectiles at the north-eastern town of Kiryat Shmona earlier today.

Hezbollah earlier said it had launched a "rocket salvo" at the town, located near the Israel-Lebanon border, around 14:00 local time (12:00 BST).

The IDF says firefighters are now working to put out fires that have developed in the area, with the latest images from the scene showing emergency crews fighting blazes in residential buildings.

Two people died in the attack, emergency services confirmed earlier on.

Joel Gunter
Reporting from Beirut

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday appealed directly to the people of Lebanon, telling them to turn against the Shia militant group Hezbollah or risk destruction on the scale of Gaza.

"Christians, Druze, Muslims Sunni and Shia, all of you are suffering because of Hezbollah’s futile war against Israel," Netanyahu said in a speech yesterday.

But in Shia, Sunni and Christian neighbourhoods of Beirut on Wednesday, Netanyahu’s appeal is falling largely on deaf ears.

"Nobody here listens to Netanyahu," says Yusuf Habbal, 31. "But we also do not accept what Hezbollah is doing," he says. "Beiruti people know that Hezbollah has their own agenda. And now they are driving us into a war we do not want.”

Netanyahu is "always talking to the Palestinians, to the Lebanese," says Tarraf Nasser, a 76-year-old retiree passing by. "Nobody listens to him," he says. "He is not really talking to us."

In Achrafieh, Beirut’s main Christian neighbourhood, there is a sense of futility at the Lebanese people’s ability to make any real change.

"Nobody can do anything anyway," says shoe shop employee Maya Habib, 35, with a shrug. "We don’t even have a president. Netanyahu is saying all the weapons should go to the Lebanese army, but how?"

Among the city’s Shia community, Hezbollah still enjoys staunch support. "Nothing Netanyahu could say could change my mind," says 75-year-old linen shop owner Fany Sharara, in a more Shia area.

Israel had "all of Europe and all of America" on its side, Sharara says. “Hezbollah is the only one fighting for us."

Rami Ruhayem
BBC Arabic

At least four people have been killed and 10 injured in an Israeli air strike on the village of Wardaniyeh to the north-east of Sidon, southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon's health ministry.

Lebanon’s National News Agency says the strike hit a hotel housing displaced families.

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• Hezbollah rocket attack: Two Israelis were killed during a rocket attack on the border town of Kiryat Shmona - Hezbollah said it fired rockets at the area
• On-the-ground: Fighting has been reported by Israel and Hezbollah along the border. Hezbollah says it pushed back the IDF in western Lebanon
• Air strikes: The IDF said this morning it's hit 185 Hezbollah sites in the last 24 hours. Explosions have been seen near Tyre and in the Khiam area
• Displaced people: The UN says a quarter of Lebanese territory is under evacuation order, with displaced people living on the streets and beaches of Beirut
• Biden-Netanyahu phone call: US President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to speak to later today

• Gaza fighting: In Gaza, Israeli forces are fighting in Jabalia, and the Hamas-run health ministry announced the death toll has passed 42,000 in the past year, with 45 killed in the past 24 hours

As we've been reporting, as well as the rockets being fired into northern Israel and continued air strikes in southern Lebanon, there's also on-the-ground fighting along the border in Lebanon.

Israel expanded its ground invasion earlier this week, attacking in western as well as eastern areas.

Hezbollah says it fired a missile at Israeli troops trying to push into the Labbouneh area, in the west.

And much further east, it says it also fired a rocket barrage at Israeli soldiers heading towards the twin border villages of Mays al-Jabal and Mouhaybib.

We can now bring you photos from Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, where two people were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack.

The town, located in Israel's north-east, is a frequent target of rocket attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon. Most residents left in the early days of the war.

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Lucy Williamson
Reporting from near the Israel-Lebanon border

The Israeli-Lebanese border cuts straight down the hill overlooking this frontier town. Burned patches of forest mark where artillery and rockets have landed.

In the deserted streets below, the sound of gunfire from across the hill echoes around empty houses.

This western stretch of the Israeli border is the latest front in the ground war.

Shelley Barkan is one of very few who have stayed here. She says there are sometimes eight or nine rocket alerts each day now.

She wants her army to do whatever it takes to remove the threat from Hezbollah. "The more the better," she tells me. "We don’t care anymore."

"I’ve got pieces of rockets in my garden," she said. "Their aim is to murder us, to kill us, to send Israel to the sea, and our aim is to defend ourselves."

She shows us the catering hall where she helps prepare food for the local soldiers. While we’re there, the sirens sound again, and we hear a barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon over our heads towards Israeli towns further south.

Minutes later, the first reports of injuries, as rockets landed in Haifa.

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We just reported that two people have been killed in Kiryat Shmona, a border town in the north-east of Israel.

Hezbollah has released a statement confirming they targeted "a gathering of Israeli enemy forces" in the same area with "a rocket salvo" at 14:00 local time (12:00 BST).

A man and a woman have been killed in Kiryat Shmona, a border town in the north-east of Israel, according to Israel's emergency service, MDA.

Israel's military says 20 rockets were fired into the area.

Kiryat Shmona is Israel's northernmost town, which our correspondent visited last month. It's the other side of Israel from Haifa, where rockets were reportedly fired into earlier today.

We'll bring you more updates as we get them.

Manal Khalil and Ethar Shalaby
BBC Arabic

We’ve been speaking to Andaku (not her real name), a 24-year-old Kenyan who has been working in southern Lebanon as a domestic worker for the past eight months.

As Israel carried out air strikes, she says her employers fled and left her alone in the house for days.

"There were a lot of bombings. It was too much. My employers locked me in the house and left to save their own lives," she tells us.

"When they came back, they threw me out. They never paid me and I had nowhere to go."

She says she was lucky to have enough money to catch a bus to the capital, Beirut.

The UN estimates tens of thousands of mostly female domestic workers have been abandoned by their employers. There are 170,000 migrant workers in Lebanon, it says.

"We are aware of cases of migrants being locked into houses of Lebanese citizens who are fleeing, to look after their properties," says Mathieu Luciano, from the UN’s International Office for Migration.

In total, the Lebanese government says 1.2m people have been displaced by Israeli strikes - and the UN says 25% of the country is under evacuation order.

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Israel says the Haifa area has been hit by rockets again today, marking the third consecutive day of attacks on Israel's third-largest city.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says that about 40 "projectiles" - which usually means rockets - have crossed from Lebanon into Israel, targeting areas around Upper Galilee and Haifa Bay. While some were intercepted, several landed in the region, the IDF says.

According to Israel’s emergency services Magen David Adom (MDA), six people are injured. Five have been injured by shrapnel, including a 16-year-old boy, and a motorcyclist suffered minor injuries in a traffic accident during the alarm.

Haifa has a population of about a quarter of a million. It was hit on Monday for the first time in 18 years, and was hit again yesterday.

• Know more about why Haifa has become a target of attacks here

Hugo Bachega
Middle East correspondent, in Beirut

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Last night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video with a message to the Lebanese people: "Free your country from Hezbollah," he said.

But here, his words are unlikely to have any resonance.

There is a long history of Israeli violence in Lebanon, and resentment and suspicion run deep. And, no matter the scale of the damage that Israel manages to inflict on Hezbollah, the group will not be entirely destroyed.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah is more than a militia, it is a political party with representation in parliament, and a social movement with significant support.

Israel may be able to weaken the group, but its ideology will persist – as it did after the wars of the past.

Now, because this is a country full of divisions, Hezbollah opponents will not be disappointed to see a degraded Hezbollah.

This is a group often described as a state with a state, powerful and influential. Critics say it is acts to defend its own interests – and those of Iran, its main supporter.

Long term, there is the real risk that Hezbollah supporters, feeling humiliated, may become more radicalised and isolated. This could exacerbate tensions in this country, which endured a civil war between 1975-1990.

This is something that people are starting to talk about - the future of this country and what may happen after the war is over.

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A stabbing attack in the city of Hadera, northern Israel, has injured six people, with at least two in a serious condition.

Israeli police call the incident a "terrorist attack".

According to Israeli media, the suspect was on a scooter when he stabbed passers-by in four different locations.

Among the six victims, one is in critical condition, one in serious condition, and another four in moderate condition, KAN reports.

Hadera is about 40km (25 miles) north of Tel Aviv.

At the weekend, an Israeli policewoman was killed and 10 others injured in a shooting in Beersheba, in what police called a suspected terror attack.

On 1 October, seven people were killed a shooting and knife attack in Tel Aviv - Hamas said it was behind the attack.

Update at 16:05 BST: The post was updated to remove a reference to the suspect being shot dead.

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We've been focusing on Lebanon this morning, but fighting continues in Gaza - including in Jabalia in the north, where Israeli tanks and troops are carrying out a ground operation.

In a statement this morning, the Israeli army said it struck 45 Hamas targets in Gaza during the past 24 hours, including Hamas bases, rocket launchers and weapons storage sites.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 42,010 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's military offensive since it began a year ago. That's an increase of 45 on the previous day's total.

The ministry does not distinguish between the deaths of fighters from Hamas and civilians, when it publishes the figures.

Israel has issued evacuation order to people in northern Gaza, but Philippe Lazzarini from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says 400,000 people are trapped there where there is "no end to hell".

"Hunger is spreading," he says.

The Israeli army this morning gave an update on fighting in the past 24 hours, saying it hit approximately 185 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces says its soldiers engaged in "close-quarter encounters" with Hezbollah fighters on the ground in southern Lebanon, as well as carrying out more air strikes.

During the on-the-ground fighting, an Israeli commander was killed in an exchange of fire, the IDF says.

As a reminder, Hezbollah earlier claimed it has repelled Israeli incursions in eastern and western parts of the Lebanese border.

The IDF also says it targeted 45 Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.

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Israel's bombing campaign in Lebanon has displaced hundreds of thousands of people across the country.

Lebanon's government says up to 1.2 million people have been internally displaced, and more than 400,000, most of them Syrians, have fled into neighbouring Syria.

The UN says, external a quarter of Lebanon is under "Israeli military displacement orders", and the humanitarian situation "is deteriorating at an alarming rate", according to OCHA, the UN agency for humanitarian affairs.

In the south, people in more than 100 villages have been told to leave.

According to figures from the Lebanese government, 180,700 people are being housed in 978 government shelters - and 775 of those are at full capacity.

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We've been seeing pictures of some of the explosions being reported this morning in southern Lebanon, including in the town of Khiam and a village near Tyre, Lebanon's fourth-largest city.

The town of Tayr Debba near Tyre was hit in a strike, resulting in six injuries, reports Lebanese state news agency NNA.

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