New Israeli raids on Gaza and the firing of 40 missiles from the Strip towards the settlements

At dawn on Friday, Israeli warplanes launched new raids on locations in various parts of the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that damage had occurred to a children's hospital east of the city. According to Hebrew media, the Gaza Strip fired 40 missiles during the night at Israeli settlements.

At dawn on Friday, Israeli warplanes launched new raids on sites in different areas of the Gaza Strip, without any injuries being reported.

According to Anadolu Agency, quoting eyewitnesses, that the latest of these raids targeted a military site belonging to the Palestinian factions, east of Gaza City, and another in the south of the Strip.

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that the targeting of the military site east of Gaza City with a number of missiles resulted in damage to the property and homes of the citizens surrounding the site.

The Israeli army announced in two separate statements that its raids resulted in the targeting of 6 Hamas weapons manufacturing sites in the northern and central Gaza Strip, and 3 tunnels.

Damage to a children's hospital in Gaza

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that damage was caused to a children's hospital, east of Gaza City, as a result of Israeli shelling that targeted the surrounding area, without any injuries reported.

And the ministry added in a statement: "We condemn the bombing that damaged the Al-Durra Children's Hospital, east of Gaza City."

She added, "The bombing caused a state of confusion and fear among the medical staff, patients, children, and their companions."

The ministry considered this bombing "a clear violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention, which stipulates the protection of health institutions and their neutralization from military targets."

40 rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip

On Friday morning, an official Hebrew channel reported that 40 rockets were launched last night from the Gaza Strip towards the Israeli settlements adjacent to it.

"40 missiles were fired overnight towards the south," the broadcaster's Kan channel said in a tweet.

It added that the "Iron Dome" system intercepted about half of these missiles, while the other half fell in open areas.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Israel announced that it had detected 9 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip towards the Gaza border area in the south of the country, most of which fell in open areas without causing injuries or damage.

More than once, warning sirens sounded in the so-called “Gaza periphery” settlements during the past night, after armed Palestinian factions fired missile barrages, in response to raids launched by Israeli warplanes on targets in the Strip.

The Israeli authorities opened shelters in settlements and towns in the south, north and center of the country, including around Tel Aviv.

Occupation police attack worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque

The Israeli occupation police attacked dozens of Palestinians who tried to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform the Friday dawn prayer, while Hamas held Israel fully responsible for the repercussions of the police attack on worshipers in Al-Aqsa.

The Israeli occupation police assaulted dozens of Palestinians who tried to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem to perform the Friday morning prayer.

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that the young men tried to enter the mosque, but the Israeli police prevented them at Hatta Gate, one of the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and assaulted them with batons.

They added that the police also assaulted the owners of stalls at the gates of Al-Aqsa.

They explained that the Israeli police prevented those under forty from entering the mosque, but dozens of young men managed to break the security cordon and entered the mosque minutes before the dawn call to prayer.

In turn, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, held Israel fully responsible for the repercussions of the police attack on worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

A member of the movement's political bureau, Izzat al-Rishq, said in a statement, "This attack is a continuation of the occupation's crimes and a dangerous escalation, and the people will continue to gather in Al-Aqsa and defend it."

Over the course of two nights, the Israeli police stormed the Al-Qibli prayer hall in Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and beat the worshipers and stationed, and arrested hundreds of them.

Israel bombs southern Lebanon and UNIFIL says that the two sides "do not want war"

At dawn on Friday, Israeli planes bombed the vicinity of the city of Tyre, southern Lebanon. After the bombing, the United Nations Interim Force in southern Lebanon confirmed that the two sides "do not want war" and called on them to calm down.

At dawn on Friday, Israeli planes bombed the area between the plain of Ras al-Ain and the area near the Rashidieh Palestinian refugee camp, south of Tyre, in southern Lebanon.

While two correspondents of the French Press Agency in the Tire area reported hearing three successive explosions, Lebanese media said that the Israeli shelling did not result in any injuries.

He added that the shelling targeted the Al-Qulayleh Plain, where rockets were launched on Thursday afternoon towards Israel, as well as an area near the Rashidieh camp for Palestinian refugees in southern Lebanon.

He pointed out that a number of houses near the targeted areas were damaged by the Israeli bombing.

Al-Manar TV, affiliated with Hezbollah, stated that the bombing targeted three points in the Tire area, which are agricultural areas.

On Thursday, 3 rockets were fired from Lebanese territory towards Israel for the second time, after 34 rockets were announced by the Israeli army that they were launched from Lebanon towards the Galilee region (northern Israel).

While no Lebanese party claimed responsibility, the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" (privately) reported that it was estimated that the rocket fire came in response to the recent events in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Israeli army spokesman, Avichai Adraei, held the Lebanese government and Hamas responsible for firing rockets from Lebanon, and said that he was also examining the possibility of Iran's involvement in this incident.

Hamas condemns the bombing of Lebanon

In a statement issued early Friday, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, condemned the Israeli aggression against Lebanon by targeting the vicinity of the city of Tyre, in the south of the country.

The statement said: "We condemn in the strongest terms the blatant Zionist aggression against Lebanon by targeting the vicinity of Tire at dawn today."

"They don't want war."

The United Nations Interim Force in South Lebanon (UNIFIL) confirmed in a statement at dawn Friday, following the bombing launched by Israel on southern Lebanon, that the two sides "do not want war," calling on them to calm down.

And the international force, which is deployed in the south of the country to separate Israel and Lebanon after several conflicts, announced that the Israeli army had informed it of its intention to respond to the missiles launched from southern Lebanon, before explosions sounded in the vicinity of the city of Tyre. She explained that "both sides said they did not want war."