GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers left tackle Trent Williams won’t be available to protect Brandon Allen’s blind side Sunday as the veteran quarterback makes his first start since the 2021 season.
The 49ers' list of inactive players for Sunday's game at Green Bay (7-3) included Williams, an All-Pro selection each of the past three seasons. The 49ers' injury report on Friday had listed Williams as questionable after an ankle injury kept him from practicing all week.
Jaylon Moore is expected to start at left tackle in Williams’ place.
The 49ers (5-5) already had announced Friday that starting quarterback Brock Purdy wouldn’t play because of a sore throwing shoulder and that four-time Pro Bowl edge rusher Nick Bosa was out because of a hip/oblique injury.
Purdy’s injury means that the 32-year-old Allen will make his 10th career start, and first since he played for the Cincinnati Bengals in their 2021 regular-season finale and they rested Joe Burrow to get ready for the playoffs.
Allen hasn’t attempted a pass since joining the 49ers last year. He attempted three passes with the Bengals in 2022. His teams have gone 2-7 in his nine previous starts.
The 49ers also won’t have cornerback Charvarius Ward, who will miss a third straight game following the death of his 1-year-old daughter. The 49ers also had ruled out linebacker Tatum Bethune (knee), wide receiver Jacob Cowing (concussion) and defensive tackle Kevin Givens (groin) on Friday.
San Francisco's other inactive player is defensive lineman Khalil Davis.
Green Bay won’t have cornerback Jaire Alexander (knee) or linebacker Edgerrin Cooper (hamstring) available. The Packers already had ruled them out Friday as well. The other inactive Packers are safety Kitan Oladapo and offensive lineman Jacob Monk.
Packers defensive lineman Colby Wooden (shoulder) is active for Sunday's game. The injury report Friday had listed him as questionable.
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FILE - San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) and teammates take the field for an NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Sept. 29, 2024, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, file)
BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel on Sunday, wounding seven people in one of the militant group's heaviest barrages in months, in response to deadly Israeli strikes in Beirut while negotiators pressed on with cease-fire efforts to halt the all-out war.
Some of the rockets reached the Tel Aviv area in the heart of Israel.
Meanwhile, an Israeli strike on an army center killed a Lebanese soldier and wounded 18 others in the southwest between Tyre and Naqoura, Lebanon's military said. The Israeli military expressed regret, saying that the strike occurred in an area of combat against Hezbollah and that the military's operations are directed solely against the militants.
Israeli strikes have killed over 40 Lebanese troops since the start of the war between Israel and Hezbollah, even as Lebanon's military has largely kept to the sidelines.
Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, condemned the latest strike as an assault on U.S.-led cease-fire efforts, calling it a “direct, bloody message rejecting all efforts and ongoing contacts” to end the war.
Hezbollah began firing rockets, missiles and drones into Israel after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of the Gaza Strip ignited the war there. Hezbollah has portrayed the attacks as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians and Hamas. Iran supports both armed groups.
Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes at Hezbollah, and in September the low-level conflict erupted into all-out war as Israel launched airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon and killed Hezbollah's top leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
The Israeli military said about 250 projectiles were fired Sunday, with some intercepted.
Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service said it treated seven people, including a 60-year old man in severe condition from rocket fire on northern Israel, a 23-year-old man who was lightly wounded by a blast in the central city of Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, and a 70-year-old woman who suffered smoke inhalation from a car that caught fire there. In Haifa, a rocket hit a residential building that police said was in danger of collapsing.
The Palestine Red Crescent reported 13 injuries it said were caused by an interceptor missile that struck several homes in Tulkarem in the West Bank. It was unclear whether injuries and damage were caused by rockets or interceptors.
Sirens wailed again in central and northern Israel hours later.
Israeli airstrikes without warning on Saturday pounded central Beirut, killing at least 29 people and wounding 67, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.
Smoke billowed above Beirut again Sunday with new strikes. Israel's military said it targeted Hezbollah command centers in the southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, where the militants have a strong presence.
Israeli attacks have killed more than 3,700 people in Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry. The fighting has displaced about 1.2 million people, or a quarter of Lebanon’s population.
On the Israeli side, about 90 soldiers and nearly 50 civilians have been killed by bombardment in northern Israel and in battle following Israel's ground invasion in early October. Around 60,000 Israelis have been displaced from the country's north.
The European Union’s top diplomat called Sunday for more pressure on Israel and Hezbollah to reach a deal, saying one was "pending with a final agreement from the Israeli government.” U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein was in the region last week.
Josep Borrell spoke after meeting with Mikati and Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally who has been mediating with the group. Borrell said the EU is ready to allocate 200 million euros ($208 million) to assist the Lebanese military.
But Borrell later said that he did not “see the Israeli government interested clearly in reaching an agreement for a cease-fire" and that it seemed Israel was seeking new conditions. He pointed to Israel’s refusal to accept France as a member of the international committee that would oversee the cease-fire's implementation.
The emerging agreement would pave the way for the withdrawal of Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops from southern Lebanon below the Litani River in accordance with the U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the monthlong 2006 war. Lebanese troops would patrol with the presence of U.N. peacekeepers.
With talks for a cease-fire and hostage release deal in Gaza stalled, freed hostages and families of those held marked a year since the war's only hostage-release deal.
“It’s hard to hold on to hope, certainly after so long and as another winter is about to begin," said Yifat Zailer, cousin of Shiri Bibas, who is held along with her husband and two young sons.
Around 100 hostages are still in Gaza, at least a third believed to be dead. Most of the rest of the 250 who were abducted in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack were released in last year's cease-fire.
Talks for another deal recently had several setbacks, including the firing of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who pushed for a deal, and Qatar’s decision to suspend its mediation. Hamas wants Israel to end the war and withdraw all troops from Gaza. Israel has offered only to pause its offensive.
The Palestinian death toll from the war surpassed 44,000 this week, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count.
On Sunday, six people were killed in strikes in central Gaza, according to AP journalists at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
Goldenberg reported from Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Smoke rise from Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A flock of birds fly as smoke rise from Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Israeli bomb squad police inspect the site where a rocket fired from Lebanon landed in Kibbutz Kfar Blum, northern Israel Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Israeli soldiers stop traffic during an alert of incoming rockets, near Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
An Israeli bomb squad policeman collects the pieces of a rocket that was fired from Lebanon in Kibbutz Kfar Blum, northern Israel Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A member of the Israeli forces inspect a site following a rocket fired from Lebanon hit an area in Rinatya, outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A man walks past a damaged building after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit an area in Rinatya, outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Journalists take pictures of a building hit direct by a rocket fired from Lebanon in Haifa, Israel, Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
An Israeli bomb squad policeman carries the remains of a rocket that was fired from Lebanon in Kibbutz Kfar Blum, northern Israel Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, left, meets with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, right, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell gestures as he arrives for his meeting with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, left, meets with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, righr, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri during his meeting with European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri during his meeting with European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell gives a statement to the media after his meeting with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell gives a statement to the media after his meeting with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Israeli police bomb squad inspect the site after a missile fired from Lebanon hit the area in Petah Tikva, outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Israeli police bomb squad inspect the site after a missile fired from Lebanon hit the area in Petah Tikva, outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Israeli police bomb squad inspect the site after a missile fired from Lebanon hit the area in Petah Tikva, outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Two men stand at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit central Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Rescue workers search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit central Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A firefighter extinguishes a fire at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit central Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Rescue workers search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit central Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
