Israel pounds Gaza as UN calls for embargo, U.S. urges restraint

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Israel pounds Gaza as UN calls for embargo, U.S. urges restraint


Several Israeli air strikes in the central and northern Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens of others, according to local medics, while tanks deepened their invasion into Rafah in the south, residents said.


Israeli planes struck a house in Al-Nuseirat camp, killing two people and wounding 12 others, while tanks shelled areas in Al-Maghazi and Al-Bureij camps, wounding many others, health officials said. Nuseirat, Maghazi and Bureij are three of Gaza's eight refugee camps.

In Deir al-Balah, a city packed with displaced people in the central Gaza Strip, an Israeli air strike killed one Palestinian and wounded several others on Thursday, medics said.

In a joint statement, special rapporteurs, independent experts, and working groups of the UN Human Rights Council urged countries and arms manufacturers to cease the sale, transfer and diversion of arms, munitions and other military equipment to Israel, even if they are conducted under existing export licenses.

These companies include BAE Systems, Boeing, Caterpillar, General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin.

"These companies risk contributing to serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law by supplying weapons, components, parts and ammunition to the Israel Defense Forces," the experts said.

US urges restraint amid tensions between Israel and Lebanon

On Friday, Al Jazeera Arabic reviewed video footage showing an airstrike by Hezbollah forces on a military facility in the northern Israeli city of Metulla. Al Jazeera Arabic said the attack on what appeared to be Israeli radar and communications infrastructure may have been carried out by a Hezbollah attack drone.

The attack came amid escalating cross-border clashes between Israeli and Hezbollah forces. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed to Israeli officials during a meeting on Thursday the importance of avoiding further escalation in Lebanon amid the Gaza war, according to the State Department.

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