🔴 Intense Israeli artillery shelling, aided by the airforce and tanks is ongoing in northern Gaza.

Media reports intense clashes near the fence area.

🔴 Lebanon: The Israeli army fired several flares over Blida village, in addition to areas near its bases in Ruwaysat Al-Alam and Berkat Al-Naqar in Shebaa farms and Kafarshouba hills.

🔴 Lebanon: The Israeli army attacked several plots of lands in Al-Wazani area from its military site from a nearby Israeli settlement.

🔴 Jordanian Prime Minister Al-Safadi:

"Israel just launched a ground war on Gaza. Outcome will be a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions for years to come."

📰 Israeli army spox to ABC media: Tonight's operation is just an expanded ground incursion not a full ground operation.

🔴 Photo taken from an Israeli city showing the explosions in Gaza, many kilometres away

📰 WHO: "We have lost contact with our staff in Gaza, health facilities and all our humanitarian partners."

🔴 Canadian airforce in Lebanon. Why?

The Canadian airforce plane that landed in Beirut evacuated many Canadian nationals and non-essential embassy personnel.

The plane however have unloaded a cargo of weapons and ammunition that was moved to the Canadian embassy.

🔴 Hamas's Al-Qassam military wing issued a statement announcing they are engaging Israeli ground forces in Beit Hanoun and Briej area in Gaza.

This coincides with massive and intense Israeli bombardment of Gaza.

🔴 The Israeli army informed international news organizations, including Reuters and Agence France-Presse, that it cannot guarantee the safety of its journalists working in the Gaza Strip.

🔴 The US Department of State issued a new statement asking US citizens to leave Lebanon ASAP.

The statement added:

- There is no guarantee the U.S. government will evacuate private U.S. citizens and their family members in a crisis situation.

- In the event that a U.S. military-assisted evacuation does occur, our focus will be on helping U.S. citizens.

- The U.S. government generally cannot provide in-country transportation during a crisis. That includes transportation to points of departure.

🔴 There is a real blackout in Gaza right now, and no activists are able to share any news.

Only news available is through mainstream media through satellite communication. (Or roaming data on foreign SIM)

Nothing will be clear until tomorrow, one hopes

📰 The explosions heard in South Lebanon are from Israeli flares being fired between Hunin and Markaba.

🔴 Islamic Jihad (PIJ) issued a statement announcing they are defending against an Israeli ground attack.

However their statement implies the attack is limited and not continuous.

🔴 Voice note from Gaza now, showcasing the violent air strikes ongoing nonstop near the border and in Jabalia and Beit Hanoun.

This appears to be a rolling start to a ground invasion in Gaza by Israeli forces, according to two US officials on CBS.

- Negotiations are ongoing despite the escalation of the Israeli ground incursion.

- The Israeli army seeks, through the ongoing operation, to remain in areas inside the Gaza Strip.