Israel-Lebanon latest: ‘At least 7’ killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza school as Al Jazeera office shut down
Israel has accused Al Jazeera of being the ‘mouthpiece’ of Hezbollah and Hamas - allegations it denies
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At least seven people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school, the Hamas-run health ministry said.
The strike hit Kafr Qasem School in Gaza City at around 11am (8am GMT) local time on Sunday as it was being used to shelter displaced people, the ministry added.
The Israeli military said the strike targeted Hamas fighters and it had used aerial surveillance to limit the risk to civilians.
It come as Israeli forces raided the bureau of Qatar-funded media network Al Jazeera in Palestine’s capital of Ramallah in the West Bank.
Balaclava-clad troops could be seen standing in the network’s newsroom with rifles as a military order was issued to shut down operations for 45 days.
Israel has accused Al Jazeera of being “the mouthpiece” of Gaza’s Hamas and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah. The network denies these allegations.
Meanwhile, Israel said it struck around 290 targets inside Lebanon after Hezbollah launched just over 100 rockets at northern Israel in the most intense skirmish since the war in Gaza began almost a year ago.
Israel closed schools and in many northern areas of the country and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights early on Sunday, with reports of rockets hitting Haifa, a port city around 17 miles from the Lebanon border.
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The east Mediterranean island is the closest European Union member state to the Middle East, and has good relations with both Lebanon and Israel. Cyprus was ready to act as a conduit for diplomacy as well as facilitate contacts between the sides, said spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis.
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