<article data-history-node-id="431542" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-complain-un-over-israel-wall-building-south" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-complain-un-over-israel-wall-building-south" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Lebanon to complain to UN over Israel wall-building in south</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/lebanon" target="_blank">Lebanon</a>'s government is set to complain to the UN over allegations that <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel </a>is building a wall in occupied territory in the south.</p> <p>On Friday, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said the Israeli army had built walls in south Lebanon near the UN-demarcated Blue Line.</p> <p>Israel has denied the allegations, but on Sunday, President Joseph Aoun's office said he had instructed officials "to file an urgent complaint to the United Nations Security Council against Israel for constructing a concrete wall on Lebanon's southern border exceeding the Blue Line".</p> <p>Unifil said last month that its peacekeepers had surveyed a concrete T-wall erected by the Israeli army southwest of Yaroun&nbsp;and&nbsp;found that it&nbsp;"crossed the Blue Line, rendering more than 4,000 square metres of Lebanese territory inaccessible to the Lebanese people".</p> <p>An Israeli military spokesperson told AFP that since the start of the war in Gaza, the Israeli army "has implemented a series of measures, including strengthening the physical barrier along the northern border".</p> <h3><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-complain-un-over-israel-wall-building-south">Read more:&nbsp;Lebanon to complain to UN over Israel wall-building in south</a></h3> <div alt="southern Lebanon Khar Kila" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="5f839d32-3e1b-45da-babb-bd2422969e40" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/WALL_LEBANON_AFP.jpg" width="1024" height="682" alt="southern Lebanon Khar Kila" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431543" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospitals-receive-17-bodies-last-24-hours" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospitals-receive-17-bodies-last-24-hours" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza hospitals receive 17 bodies in last 24 hours</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Gaza's hospitals have received the bodies of 17 Palestinians in the last 72 hours, Wafa news agency is reporting , citing medical sources.</p> <p>It reported that two people had been killed in Israeli attacks, while rescue teams recovered 15 bodies from the rubble.</p> <p>This has pushed the overall toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 2023 to 69,483.</p> <p>266 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since the fragile ceasefire was implemented on 11 October 2025, with another 635 people wounded, and 548 bodies recovered from the rubble.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430782" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-30-dead-after-resumption-israeli-air-strikes-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-30-dead-after-resumption-israeli-air-strikes-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">More than 30 dead after resumption of Israeli air strikes on Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Health officials in Gaza are now reporting the number of dead has exceeded 30 after Israel resumed air strikes across Gaza late Tuesday evening, local time.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="427087" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-23" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-23" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza death toll rises</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli air strikes killed seven Palestinians, including five children, at a&nbsp;displaced people’s tents south of Gaza City, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said on Wednesday.</p> <p>Al Jazeera reported, citing medical sources, that they were among 12 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn today.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Palestinian woman Soha Tafesh carries the body of her granddaughter Sarah Abu Daf, who was killed in an early morning Israeli strike on a house, according to medics, at a cemetry in Gaza City, August 13, 2025. REUTERS" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4caaeee2-f6fc-4d39-a608-36d70c7a7b32" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2025-08-13T072037Z_981964012_RC256GAQRCKZ_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-min.JPG" width="2447" height="1631" alt="Palestinian woman Soha Tafesh carries the body of her granddaughter Sarah Abu Daf, who was killed in an early morning Israeli strike on a house, according to medics, at a cemetry in Gaza City, August 13, 2025. REUTERS" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Palestinian woman Soha Tafesh carries the body of her granddaughter Sarah Abu Daf, who was killed in an early morning Israeli strike on a house, according to medics, at a cemetry in&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;City, 13 August, 2025. (Reuters)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>