Israel’s Arabic language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, has again issued a warning to Lebanese residents in the south of the country that they should move north.

In the message, he says:

To the people of South Lebanon, be careful! The IDF continues to attack Hezbollah sites in and near your village, and for your own safety you are prohibited from returning to your homes until further notice. You should refrain from heading south, anyone who heads south is putting their life in danger.

The Lebanese caretaker government has said that at least 1.3 million people, more than a fifth of the country’s population, have been displaced from their homes due to Israel’s stepped up air campaign.

Over the previous year tens of thousands of people in southern Lebanon and northern Israel had already been forced to flee by continued fighting between Israel, Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces.

Lebanon’s army has issued a lengthy statement saying that it “maintains its readiness to defend the land within the available capabilities, based on the decisions of the political authority and its directives to do what it deems appropriate in order to protect Lebanon.”

It says it has issued the statement “in light of the increasing barbaric attacks by the Israeli enemy on various Lebanese regions, and the resulting deaths, injuries and great destruction.”

The army states “experience has proven that the army is the institution that forms the backbone of Lebanon” and that “we look forward to the success of international efforts to stop the Israeli aggression as soon as possible.”

It criticises “campaigns of slander, fabrication and treason” against the army in the media.

Several soldiers from Lebanon’s army have been killed by Israeli strikes in the last couple of weeks.

Iran’s Isna news agency is carrying a readout from a call between Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi and his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty.

Araghchi is said to have told the Egyptians that Hezbollah is “in a good situation” and “fully ready to confront a potential ground invasion of Lebanon.”

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Imran Khan has been reporting for Al Jazeera from Hasbaiyya in southern Lebanon. He tells the news network:

In southern Lebanon, about 130 towns and villages have been ordered to evacuate by the Israeli military. It’s got people worried because they’re wondering what the definition of Israel’s “limited” ground offensive is.

They’re hearing about the mass staging of troops on the Israeli side of the border, reserves being brought up. And just in the last few hours, Hezbollah says it’s hit Israeli soldiers.

Al Jazeera has been banned from operating inside Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

Turkey will evacuate its citizens who have applied to leave Lebanon by sea on Wednesday, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

Reuters reports it said in a statement that two Turkish navy ships were expected to set off for Beirut on Tuesday with a total capacity of about 2,000 passengers, adding that the evacuation process will continue in the following days if necessary.

Donald Trump marked the first anniversary of the 7 October Hamas attacks, which he called “one of the darkest days in all of history”, with a commemoration for victims and hostages at his golf resort in Miami on Monday night.

He also repeated a previous claim that the attack on Israel would never have happened if he was still in the White House.

Blaming Harris and Joe Biden for the “weakness” he said gave Hamas the confidence to launch the attack, the Republican presidential nominee told a crowd of about 300 supporters, mostly from the Jewish community, that a wave of anti-Israel sentiment, which he said was sweeping the US and wider world, could be blamed on their administration.

“Almost as shocking as 7 October itself is the outbreak of antisemitism that we have all seen in its wake,” he said.

After claiming the attacks would not have taken place had he been elected to a second term, Trump said he would restore the closeness with Israel he insisted the US had lost, despite Biden and Harris both expressing support for Israel’s right to defend itself.

“If, and when, they say, when I’m president, the US will once again be stronger and closer [to Israel] than it ever was. But we have to win the election,” he said.

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Air raid alerts have continued to sound in northern Israel.

In the last hour, sirens have gone off in communities around Meron in the country’s north.

Overnight, sires were heard in Kiryat Shmona and Rosh Hanikra, both locations which lie right on the border with Lebanon.

Gaza’s health ministry says it has identified 34,344 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in the territory, publishing a list of names, ages, sex and ID numbers that cover more than 80% of Palestinians killed in the war so far.

The Guardian used this list to seek out the families of the oldest victim, a 101-year-old, and one of the very youngest, a newborn who lived only two hours.

Ahmed al-Tahrawi

Tahrawi was born in 1922 in al-Masmiyya, which today exists only as a handful of ruins, fading memory and the name of an Israeli road junction about half an hour’s drive from Gaza’s northern border.

Its residents fled during the Nakba, or catastrophe, of 1948, in which about 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland after the creation of Israel.

Tahrawi was 26 that year, a father to two young sons. The family left their old life behind on foot, carrying little more than the key to the village home they would never see again, his grandson Abd al-Rahman al-Tahrawi said.

The boys did not survive the flight into exile, and so in Bureij, a refugee camp in Gaza, Ahmed al-Tahrawi and his wife started again, rebuilding their family, their home and their lives from scratch.

Tahrawi’s single-storey home in Bureij had a corrugated asbestos roof, so at the start of the war he moved in with one of his daughters, hoping her concrete roof would offer more protection from Israeli airstrikes, but on 23 October, the daughter’s house was bombed.

Twelve people were killed immediately and eight were injured including Tahrawi. He was taken to hospital with internal bleeding, but because wards were overwhelmed and medical equipment in short supply, doctors prioritised the young.

He died a week later, leaving his family bereft.

Waad Walid Samir al-Sabah

Waad was not yet born when an Israeli airstrike buried her mother, Salam al-Sabah, under an avalanche of rubble. The target of the airstrike on 15 February was a neighbour’s house, but the bomb was so big that it brought down parts of the Sabah family home too.

Rescuers raced to the site but had to work without heavy equipment so it took more than an hour to free Sabah, who was nine months pregnant. Already mother to four sons, she had been hoping to meet her first daughter within days.

Her uncle by marriage, Eid Sabah, is director of nursing at the Kamal Adwan hospital. He was on duty when his relatives were brought in so covered in dust and soot from the explosion that he did not recognise them at first.

It was too late for his niece, but the unborn baby in her womb was still fighting for life, so doctors performed an emergency caesarian and rushed Waad to intensive care. She survived for two hours.

“What saddened me the most was the release of the birth certificate and the death certificate of Waad at the same time,” Eid Sabah said. Both mother and daughter could have been saved if they had got treatment faster, he added.

China will provide emergency medical supplies to Lebanon, the official China International Development Cooperation Agency said on Tuesday.

Li Ming, spokesperson for the agency, said in a statement that as the fighting escalated recently, explosions and air strikes “have occurred in many places in Lebanon, causing a large number of casualties”.

“At the request of the Lebanese government, the Chinese government has decided to provide emergency humanitarian medical supplies to Lebanon to help Lebanon carry out medical assistance,” the statement said.

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In New York, protests marking 7 October have seen pro-Palestinian demonstrations grow to a blocks-long column that marched through Manhattan streets, avenues and landmarks.

Protesters spread a large Palestinian flag on a street near the New York Stock Exchange early on Monday afternoon, while a smaller group of counter-protesters held an Israeli flag.

Associated Press journalists saw several people being taken into police custody at various points in the march. Police said multiple arrests were made; no further information was immediately available.

While the protesters paused to conduct a Muslim evening prayer at the south-western corner of Central Park, the parents of American-Israeli hostage Omer Neutra shared their anguish from the park’s SummerStage venue.

“We would never have imagined we would still be standing here a whole year later, with no news of him,” his mother, Orna Neutra, told hundreds of people at an event that drew New York’s governor, mayor, US senators and other elected officials. Her son, a New York-born Israeli soldier, turns 23 next week.

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