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Haaretz reports that Israeli security forces blindfolded and arrested the mother, brother and sister of the suspect killed by police after a stabbing attack killed one person in the Israeli city of Karmiel.

It cited the local police chief, Yitzhak Abuhatzira, who said the three family members had arrived at the scene after recognising the suspect from pictures shared on social media. Police earlier said the suspect was an Arab-Israeli from Nahf.

Two men in their 20s were injured in the attack, one of whom has subsequently died.

Israel kills senior Hezbollah commander in drone strike outside Tyre – reports

Israeli media is reporting that Lebanon’s foreign minister Abdullah Bou Habib has sent a message to his Israeli counterpart Israel Katz saying “We are interested in peace, we do not want war”.

Israel and Lebanon do not have direct diplomatic relations, and the message was conveyed via Azeri foreign minister Jeyhun Bayramov.

Lebanon’s national news agency reports that ambulances are at the scene of a suspected Israeli drone strike on a vehicle near Tyre. Two people were reported to be injured.

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Haaretz reports that one of the people stabbed in a suspected terror attack in a shopping mall in the Israeli city of Karmiel has died. Two men in their 20s were said to be the victims of the attack. Police said the suspect, who was killed at the scene, was an Arab-Israeli from Nahf.

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More than 37,953 Palestinians have been killed and 87,266 have been wounded in the Israeli military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, the Hamas-led Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

Over the same period, Israel says 320 of its troops have been killed during ground operations in the territory.

It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict.

Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that at least 20 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank. Most of the detentions were in the Hebron region.

Local media sources are reporting that Israel has launched another strike on the Shejaiya area of eastern Gaza City, with videos being shared on social media showing a large plume of smoke over the city.

The New York Times is reporting that Joe Biden’s envoy Amos Hochstein will be in Paris today to talk to French officials about a pathway to defuse tensions in northern Israel and southern Lebanon, where Israel and anti-Israeli forces have been exchanging almost constant fire since 7 October.

Ten of thousands of Israeli and Lebanese civilians have had to flee their homes on either side of the UN-drawn blue line which separates the two countries. Hezbollah, working inside Lebanon, has said it is fighting to support Palestinians in Gaza while Israel’s assault on the territory continues.

Associated Press reports that some of the Palestinian people killed in airstrikes yesterday by Israel had followed Israeli military instructions to flee their homes, only to be targeted in an area which had been designated as a safe area.

The Hamdan family – around a dozen people from three generations – fled their home in the middle of the night after the Israeli military ordered an evacuation from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.

They found refuge with extended relatives in a building further north, inside an Israeli-declared safe zone. But hours after they arrived, an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday afternoon hit their building in the town of Deir al-Balah, killing nine members of the family and three others.

In all, five children and three women were among the dead, according to hospital records and a relative who survived.

Israel’s police have issued a statement about the stabbing in Karmiel, writing:

Initial report of a suspected terror stabbing attack in the city of Karmiel, resulting in two men being injured, one seriously and one lightly (according to medical sources). The attacker has been neutralized at the scene, and significant police forces from the northern district are currently on location.

Hebrew media outlet Ynet has an updated report on the suspected stabbing attack in Karmiel.

It cited Eli Bin, head of the Magen David Adom emergency services as saying that police defined the incident as a “suspected attack” and neutralised the attacker on the scene. First aid is being carried out on the wounded at the scene.

Karmiel is in northern Israel, to the north-west of the sea of Galilee.

A stabbing attack in a shopping centre in the Israeli city of Karmiel has left two people wounded, and the suspect has been killed, Israeli media is reporting. Police have said it is a suspected terror attack. Israeli Emergency Services have said one of the people wounded is in a serious condition.

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Reuters is carrying more details of the casualties in Gaza today after further military action by Israel.

In Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, two Israeli airstrikes killed five Palestinians, health officials said. In Shejaiya, an eastern suburb of Gaza City, an airstrike killed four and wounded 17, medics said.

Another airstrike hit a car in the southern city of Deir al-Balah, killing three people, health officials said.

Reuters reports Deir Al-Balah is crowded with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians forced to flee homes elsewhere in Gaza, and residents complain of acute shortages of drinking water and inflated prices for basic foodstuff.

“There is no clean water to drink. We are forced to buy salty or unclean water at a high price,” said Shaban, 47, a father of five.

“Most of the displaced suffer from abdominal pains and diseases such as because of the unhealthy water, the lack of decent food and the pollution as many live near sewage pools,” he told Reuters via a chat app.

Pictures are coming over the news wires showing the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes being brought to the Aqsa Martyrs hospital for funeral prayers and burial in the Gaza Strip.