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Displaced Palestinians evacuate from Jabalya refugee camp. 

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Two hospitals in Beirut are dealing with the impact of Israel’s war in Lebanon, where it aims to crush Hezbollah.

An Israeli strike outside Lebanon’s largest public hospital killed at least four people, including a child, the health ministry said. The strike near Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut was not in an area covered by evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military, a CNN analysis found. The military said it hit a “Hezbollah terrorist target” near the hospital.

Israel’s military has alleged that a different hospital in Beirut, Sahel General, has a Hezbollah bunker hidden beneath it, saying the bunker contained “millions of dollars in gold and cash.” One of the hospital directors said the claims were “baseless”. The Israeli military has made similar claims in Gaza before targeting hospitals, he said. “Now they are doing it in Lebanon.”

Here are the latest headlines:

• Jabalya evacuation: Huge crowds were evacuated from the Jabalya refugee camp. The military said it allowed civilians to safely evacuate. But the UN’s main agency in Gaza said the military “reportedly besieged and forcefully evacuated seven UNRWA schools in Jabalya Camp.” UNRWA said Israeli artillery shells struck one of the schools, killing seven people.
• Gaza aid crisis: The head of agency has accused Israel of preventing aid from reaching northern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people face a dire humanitarian situation amid a renewed Israeli military offensive. Over 400 people have been killed in the two-week offensive.
• Calls for Jewish settlements in Gaza: Hundreds of right-wing Israeli activists — including members of Israel’s parliamentary coalition — attended an event near the Gaza border calling for the government to establish Jewish settlements in Gaza. There were also calls for the expulsion of Gaza’s Palestinian population.
• Israel targets Hezbollah-linked financial network: Israel’s attacks on the offices of the Hezbollah-affiliated bank Qard al-Hassan were also some of the most intense strikes since the start of its offensive in Lebanon. Some destroyed whole residential blocks. Qard al-Hassan, the military said, was the main vehicle through which Hezbollah paid its fighters’ salaries. But these lending offices also provide interest-free loans to working-class Shia Muslim families.
• Thousands of Hezbollah targets hit: Since the Israeli military’s ground operation into Lebanon on October 1, it has struck over 3,200 targets, “including hundreds of weapons storage facilities, rocket launchers, anti-tank posts, terrorist infrastructure, and command-and-control centers,” according to the Israel Defense Forces.
• Hezbollah attacks Israel troops: Hezbollah says it carried out 31 attacks against Israel and its troops in southern Lebanon. The attacks involved rockets, missiles, and drones and were carried out in support of Palestinians in Gaza and the “defense of Lebanon and its people.”
• Blinken heads to Israel: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on a high-stakes trip to Israel and the Middle East as the US seeks to move forward with long-stalled negotiations to bring back the hostages and end the war in Gaza in the wake of Yahya Sinwar’s death.
• Iran’s UN mission warns US: The Iranian mission to the United Nations said the United States would be “complicit” in any Israeli aggression against Iran if it emboldened Israel by providing it with advanced weaponry.