Hezbollah fires ballistic missiles at Tel Aviv in response, while Israeli attacks on Gaza include a hospital courtyard

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More than 20 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Christian town in northern Lebanon, prompting Hezbollah to fire ballistic missiles at Tel Aviv, as Israel’s multifront war continues to escalate.

It was also a particularly bloody 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, where four people were killed in an Israeli bombing of a hospital courtyard in central Gaza, another strike on a nearby school turned shelter killed at least 20 people, and a drone strike killed five children playing on the street in al-Shati camp in Gaza City, according to local health authorities.