Hugo Bachega
in southern Lebanon

Frequent cross-border attacks between the Lebanese group Hezbollah and the Israeli army have raised fears that the Lebanon-Israel border could become another front in the war.

But tensions are high elsewhere in the region – and the so-called Axis of Resistance is a common player. This is an alliance supported by Iran that includes Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen and groups in Iraq and Syria.

Today, the Houthi rebel group said it had launched ballistic missiles and drones from Yemen toward Israel and warned that there was more to come. A day earlier, the Biden administration said US forces in Iraq and Syria had been attacked 23 times since mid-October, blaming Iranian-backed groups.

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US officials have repeatedly warned Iran against escalating the situation. The Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, appeared to react to those warnings on Sunday, saying that: "Washington asks us to not do anything, but they keep giving widespread support to Israel."

Israel, he said, had "crossed the red lines, which may force everyone to take action".

Here in Lebanon, all eyes are on Hezbollah. Its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is expected to make his first speech since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on Friday.

Paul Adams
Reporting from Jerusalem

I know Jabalia well, having visited the camp in 1980 and many times since.

The largest of the Gaza Strip’s eight refugee camps, it's a tightly packed warren of narrow streets and breezeblock buildings.

Before the war, its 116,000 residents lived in just 1.4 sq km.

Its busy streets are a far cry from the tents that Palestinians first lived in when they fled or were driven from their homes after Israel’s creation in 1948.

It’s been hit repeatedly since Israel’s bombing campaign began on 7 October. The IDF has yet to comment on what's happened today.

It's not clear how many people have fled in the last few weeks, but today's pictures of hundreds of residents searching in the rubble for bodies suggest that many remain.

I was in touch with Asmaa, a young aspiring journalist, until a week ago. She said she and her family had decided not to obey Israel’s instructions for the population to move south.

"It’s dangerous all over the Gaza Strip," she messaged me. "There's no point moving."

A week ago, Asmaa stopped replying to my messages.

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Four people have been injured after two rockets hit Ashdod in southern Israel, emergency services have said.

A 50-year-old man was seriously hurt by shrapnel and three more men sustained minor injures from glass shards.

All four have been taken to hospital and emergency teams are searching the area for any other people injured.

UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has released a statement saying he is "deeply alarmed" by the intensification of the conflict in Gaza, adding: "This includes the expansion of ground operations by the Israel Defense Forces accompanied by intense air strikes, and the continued rocket fire towards Israel from Gaza."

Guterres goes on to reiterate his call for a ceasefire so "unimpeded humanitarian access to be granted consistently".

"International humanitarian law establishes clear rules that cannot be ignored," he says. "It is not an a la carte menu and cannot be applied selectively."

A huge explosion at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza has reportedly killed dozens. Hamas officials have blamed an Israeli strike. The IDF is yet to comment.

The French news agency AFP has been at the scene in Jabalia after an explosion in the crowded refugee camp.

The agency says footage from the scene shows at least 47 bodies recovered from the rubble.

Ragheb Aqal, a resident, said what felt like "an earthquake" rocked the area.

The Israeli military has not yet commented on the blast at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has blamed an Israeli air strike for the blast, saying at least 50 people were killed.

Photos filed by a Reuters photographer at the scene show levelled buildings and bodies being carried out of rubble.

BBC News has contacted the IDF for comment.

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Located north of Gaza City, the Jabalia camp is the largest of Gaza's eight refugee camps.

Just over 116,000 Palestinian refugees were registered there by the UN as of July 2023.

Refugees began settling in the camp after the 1948 war. It's a small but densely populated area, only covering 1.4 sq km, and is largely made up of residential buildings.

Jabalia has 26 schools in 16 school buildings, a food distribution centre, two health centres, a library and seven water wells.

Along with the Shati camp, Jabalia lies in area that Israel has declared an evacuation zone.

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In the photos filed by a Reuters photographer at the scene, a significant area of the Jabalia refugee camp appears to have been levelled.

Many of them are too graphic to publish, but they show large impact craters surrounded by concrete and steel rubble from collapsed buildings strewn everywhere.

In one devastated building next to a crater, a child - who looks to have survived - is being carried to safety by a man from an upper floor. The floor has nearly collapsed under them.

Dozens of people are searching the rubble for survivors.

One picture shows a body, face covered, being carried out of the ruins of a building. Several pictures appear to show dead or seriously injured children.

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A Reuters photographer has taken these pictures from the scene of the blast at the Jabalia refugee camp.

Other pictures from the camp in northern Gaza show people searching for survivors and pulling bodies from the rubble.

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Image source, Reuters

Multiple deaths and injuries have been reported at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

The Hamas-run heath ministry, and the director of the nearby Indonesian hospital, say at least 50 people have been killed.

The ministry said the blast was caused by an Israeli air strike.

There has been no comment yet from Israel on the reported blast. The BBC is working to verify details of the incident.

Yolande Knell
Reporting from Jerusalem

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There have been only brief comments from the Israeli military, saying it's expanding ground operations.

But what we're hearing from inside Gaza is that tanks and armoured vehicles are moving steadily towards Gaza City - where the IDF says Hamas has a network of tunnels used as a command and control centre.

We understand from colleagues that Israeli forces have penetrated the northern neighbourhoods of Gaza City - and that there are armoured vehicles on both of the main north-to-south roads.

One goes along the coast from the north of Gaza City, and the other runs through the middle of the Strip to the south of the city.

What is unclear now is what could happen to civilians. We know that there are hundreds of thousands of people who have not heeded the Israeli military's call to move from the northern half of the Gaza Strip south.

Now it would seem that those in Gaza City could be stuck there.

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As we've been reporting, there is violence across the region - in the Gaza Strip, in the occupied West Bank, at Israel's border with Lebanon, and elsewhere.

Now, Houthis in Yemen - hundreds of miles south-east of Israel - confirm they have already launched a "large number" of ballistic missiles and drones toward Israel.

As we reported earlier, air raid sirens sounded in the city of Eilat in southern Israel on Tuesday after a "hostile aircraft intrusion", which Israel shot down over the Red Sea.

The Houthis' military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a televised statement it was their third operation targeting Israel - and that more would follow.

Houthi forces "will continue to carry out special operations until the Israeli aggression ends", Saree said.

Last week, Israel accused the Iran-backed Yemeni rebel group of sending drones that caused explosions in two Egyptian towns - saying they were intended to strike Israel.

As we've just reported, the WHO says there's a risk of "public health catastrophe" in Gaza.

And another UN agency - Unicef, which focuses on children - says infant deaths caused by dehydration are "a growing threat".

Gaza only has 5% of its normal daily water output, spokesman James Elder said at a press briefing in Geneva.

He added that children were getting sick from drinking salty, untreated water.

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A "public health catastrophe" is imminent in Gaza, according to the World Health Organization.

As we reported earlier, water, food, and fuel are in short supply, as Israel's blockade continues. Hospitals are also running out of medicine and power.

WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier says: "It's an imminent public health catastrophe that looms with the mass displacement, the overcrowding, the damage to water and sanitation infrastructure."

He also called for fuel to be allowed into Gaza to allow a water desalination plant to operate.

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Two Palestinian sisters have been reunited in Rafah, in southern Gaza.

Julia, an 18-month-old toddler, was pulled from the rubble of a destroyed building and rushed to El-Najar Hospital.

Her sister, five-year-old Joury, was also rescued from the rubble and was already there, being treated for her injuries.

"My sister, my beloved," Joury cried when she realised her sister had survived.

Israel has carried out thousands of air strikes on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip since the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October.

On 13 October, Israel began warning people in the north to head south.

This map shows that strikes have taken place across the territory, although mainly in the north.

The prime minister of Egypt has rejected any plans for people displaced from Gaza to be mass-relocated into Egypt's Sinai peninsula.

Local media in Israel has reported that some Israeli officials want to relocate civilians from Gaza into north-eastern Egypt.

But, during a visit to North Sinai, Mostafa Madbouly says no regional conflict should be resolved at the expense of Egypt.

As a reminder, with Israel's crossings into Gaza closed, the Egypt-controlled Rafah crossing is the only potential way for civilians to leave Gaza.

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In its latest operational update, IDF says its forces have "struck a Hamas terrorist outpost in the northern Gaza Strip" in the last few hours.

Posting video footage of Israeli forces on the ground in Gaza, the IDF also says its troops have:

• Killed "dozens of terrorists"
• Destroyed anti-tank missile launch cells
• Taken out missile launch and observation posts
• Confiscated "numerous weapons" - including guns and bombs

Additionally, the army said "fierce" fighting had taken place "deep" inside the Gaza Strip.

As a reminder, the BBC is not able to immediately verify most battlefield claims.

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We're focusing on the Israeli ground operation in Gaza - but further north, in the occupied West Bank, the violence continues.

A 14-year-old boy in Nablus, and a 70-year-old man in Tubas, died in separate incidents on Tuesday, Reuters reports.

Israeli forces and settlers killed seven Palestinians between Sunday afternoon and Monday evening, according to the UN's office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA)., external

Since 7 October, at least 121 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed in the West Bank, OCHA reports.

Violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank has increased over the last three weeks, according to OCHA, which has recorded 171 settler attacks against Palestinians.

Almost half of all incidents involved Israeli forces accompanying or actively supporting Israeli settlers, it says.