DUBAI, November 15. /TASS/. More than 40 Palestine and Lebanon residents have died in Israeli shelling attacks on various parts of the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon in the past 24 hours, Al Jazeera reported.

According to it, at least 24 Palestinians have been killed and 112 wounded in Israeli attacks on the embattled enclave over the past 24 hours. Eighteen people died during Israeli strikes on two civilian defense centers in Lebanon.

The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that, as a result of Israeli attacks, since October 7, 2023, 43,736 people have been killed and 103,370 wounded in Gaza. According to the latest update from Lebanon’s Health Ministry, 3,386 people have been killed and 14,417 wounded since the onset of the Gaza conflict, Al Jazeera said.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7, 2023, when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel has declared a state of war readiness; announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians; and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria, followed by a ground operation in the enclave. Clashes are underway in the West Bank as well.

On September 23, Israel launched an offensive operation, dubbed Northern Arrows, targeting the Lebanon-based Shiite party Hezbollah’s military facilities, carrying out massive air strikes across Lebanon. Overnight on October 1, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced a ground operation in borderline regions in Lebanon’s south.