Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes and its aircraft struck southern Lebanon overnight, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a meeting of his top generals and his war cabinet to assess the escalating conflict, Reuters reports.

Israel’s attacks concentrated on the Gaza Strip’s centre and north, Palestinian media reported. A strike on a house near the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, killed several Palestinians and wounded others, according to media reports.

In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, two Palestinians were killed at the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Residents told Reuters that Israeli forces raided the camp and carried out widespread arrests, as they clashed with gunmen and some youths who threw stones. The Israeli army has not issued a statement about the incident.

Palestinians inspect the site of Israeli strikes on a house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 23. — Reuters
Palestinians inspect the site of Israeli strikes on a house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 23. — Reuters

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