News on Israel and Gaza: US Embassy reports injuries as a result of Hezbollah rocket fire

According to the US Embassy in Israel, a US citizen was injured on Sunday by one of several rockets fired at Israel by the terrorist group Hezbollah from Lebanon.

Embassy officials said they had received information about the injured U.S. citizen. The embassy confirmed that the person does not work for the U.S. government.

The embassy is working to gather more information about the injured person, officials said.

Further details about the incident were not initially disclosed.

-Jordana Miller of ABC News

The Israel Defense Forces have released details of an attack on a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp that Gaza authorities said killed 16 people and injured at least 50.

The Israel Defense Forces said its intelligence services had discovered that the site allegedly served as “a hideout and operational infrastructure from which attacks against Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip were directed and carried out.”

“Numerous steps were taken prior to the attack to reduce the risk of harm to civilians, including the use of precise aerial surveillance and additional intelligence,” the Israeli army said, without disclosing what the steps were.

– ABC News’ Dorit Long

Israel is planning a long-term uprising against Hamas. It is assumed that Hamas will still exist in five years. However, the group will no longer be able to carry out an attack like the one on October 7.

“In five years, will you and I be talking about Hamas as a terrorist organization in Gaza? The answer is yes,” Daniel Hagari, spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, told ABC News.

Hagari is the first Israeli politician to publicly admit that the uprising will be long and difficult, in stark contrast to the boastfulness of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who continues to vow a quick destruction of Hamas.

A senior Israeli government official told ABC News that the conflicts in Gaza and, to some extent, even against Hezbollah are “forever wars” that distract Israel from what he called Israel’s main enemy, Iran.

-Matt Gutman of ABC News

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 16 people were killed and 50 others injured in an attack on a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The school was housing displaced people and a mobile police unit was stationed there.

Israel has not yet commented on the attack, but ABC News has asked the Israeli military for a comment.

-Victoria Beaule of ABC News