UN says peacekeepers injured after Israeli tank fires at watchtower in Lebanon

 The UN says two peacekeepers have been injured after an Israeli tank fired on a watchtower at a UN base in southern Lebanon

• According to a statement by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the observation tower at its headquarters in Naqoura was directly hit, causing the peacekeepers to fall

• Earlier Lebanese authorities said Israeli air strikes killed five health workers in the south of the country on Wednesday. At least 115 health workers have been killed since last month

• Hezbollah continues to fire rockets into Israel, including into Kiryat Shmona in the north-east, where two people were killed on Wednesday

• In Gaza, at least 28 people have been killed and 54 injured in an Israeli strike on a former school sheltering displaced people in Deir al-Balah, paramedics and health officials say

• The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it targeted Hamas operatives "inside a command centre". Two UN peacekeepers have been injured after an Israeli tank fired towards a watchtower at a UN base in southern Lebanon, the UN says.

• According to a statement by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the observation tower at its headquarters in Naqoura was directly hit, causing the peacekeepers to fall."The injuries are fortunately, this time, not serious, but they remain in hospital," the UN says.

• 1. It adds that Israeli soldiers also fired at a UN base in Ras Naqoura, "hitting the entrance to the bunker where peacekeepers were sheltering, and damaging vehicles and a communications system".

     There's more in their statement which we'll bring you shortly.

     UNIFIL is a UN peacekeeping mission created in 1978. It monitors hostilities and helps to ensure humanitarian access to civilians. Witnesses say Gaza school was hit by two strikes in two rooms

  2. Image source,Reuters

     Videos from the scene in Deir al-Balah appear to show a cloud of smoke and dust rising up as people rush to help the injured.

     Witnesses say there were two air strikes targeting two rooms in the school which was packed with displaced families.

     They say that food aid, including children’s milk, had been stored there and was distributed from the site.

     Israel’s military says it took steps to mitigate the risk of harming civilians. It says that Hamas operatives were using the compound and that prior to carrying out what it described as a "precise strike".

     There has been a series of deadly Israeli attacks on former schools in Gaza in recent months, with Israel saying that Hamas embeds itself in civilian infrastructure, something it denies. THIS AND MORE UPDATES AT: More than 20 killed in Israeli strike on school sheltering people in Gaza, medics say