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The United States warned of increasing escalation between Israel and Lebanon after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to carry out a military operation on the northern front.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said, according to the Al-Hurra satellite channel on Thursday, that any escalation of the conflict in Lebanon will lead to more loss of life on both the Israeli and Lebanese sides, indicating that this will cause enormous damage to Israel’s security, as well as to stability. In the region.
Miller added that the United States is still at a stage where it believes that Israel "prefers a diplomatic solution."
The Israeli army had previously continued to bomb towns and villages in southern Lebanon, while large fires broke out in the towns of Aitaroun and Maroun al-Ras, as a result of incendiary shells thrown by Israeli forces. According to what was reported by the Middle East News Agency and published by the Youm7 website in Cairo
On the other hand, dozens of Palestinians, most of them children and women, were killed and injured at dawn on Thursday, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces targeting a school housing displaced persons in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Sources in the Gaza Strip confirmed that the occupation forces targeted the “Al-Sardi” middle school for boys in the Nuseirat camp, which houses thousands of displaced people, resulting in at least 29 martyrs and dozens being injured.
The Government Information Office in the Gaza Strip confirmed that the Israeli occupation army committed a horrific massacre by bombing several rooms housing dozens of displaced people in the Nuseirat Preparatory Boys School in the Camp 2 area in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.
He added, in a press statement, that this horrific massacre resulted in 29 martyrs arriving at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and dozens of injuries among the safe displaced persons in the UNRWA school, in a crime that shames humanity.
He pointed out that the Israeli occupation's continuation of committing these massacres is clear evidence of its continuation of committing the crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing against civilians and displaced people in the Gaza Strip.
The office held the Israeli occupation and the American administration fully responsible for these crimes against humanity and against international law, calling on the whole world to condemn these crimes and the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.