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Son of Al Jazeera journalist was killed by an Israeli missile and Al-Aqsa Hospital was evacuated. Right here’s the most recent.
Right here’s how issues stand on Friday, January 8, 2024:
Newest updates
- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza was partially evacuated on account of rising Israeli army exercise. World Well being Group (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted on X on Sunday that about 600 sufferers and medical workers had been compelled to go away and their location is unknown.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned his authorities is grappling with a “plague of leaks” and proposed that ministers who attend safety conferences ought to bear a polygraph take a look at.
- There are rising divisions inside the Israeli authorities. Three ministers from the Nationwide Unity Celebration, together with Benny Gantz, have boycotted a gathering, Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut reported.
- Israel has signalled that it is able to finish its bombardment of northern Gaza, saying it has “dismantled” Hamas in that a part of the Gaza Strip. Nonetheless, intense army operations look set to proceed in the remainder of the enclave.
- WHO cancelled a mission to northern Gaza’s al-Awda Hospital for the fourth time since December 26 after the UN company did not obtain safety ensures.
Right this moment, @WHO cancelled a deliberate mission to Al-Awda hospital and the central drug retailer in northern #Gaza for the fourth time since 26 Dec as a result of we didn’t obtain deconfliction and security ensures.
The mission deliberate to maneuver urgently wanted medical provides to maintain the… pic.twitter.com/6v09rPbBb1
— WHO in occupied Palestinian territory (@WHOoPt) January 7, 2024
Human influence and combating
- As many as 73 Palestinian individuals had been killed and 99 wounded in assaults by Israel on Gaza over the previous 24 hours, in accordance with Gaza’s Well being Ministry.
- Palestinian media reported that at the least eight individuals had been killed after an Israeli air assault hit a home within the metropolis of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
- Hamza Dahdouh, the eldest son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael Dahdouh, was killed by an Israeli missile assault on a automobile in Khan Younis.
- Journalist Mustafa Thuraya was additionally killed within the assault. The missile hit the automobile close to al-Mawasi, a supposedly protected space in the direction of the southwest.
- UN Aid and Works Company (UNRWA) mentioned on Sunday that 142 of its staff have been killed by ongoing Israeli air raids on Gaza for the reason that battle broke out on October 7.
Diplomacy
- A big group of individuals gathered exterior the US embassy in Stockholm on Sunday to protest towards Israel’s ongoing assaults on Gaza.
- In a diplomatic go to to the Center East, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met leaders from Qatar and Jordan.
- The Jordan Overseas Ministry mentioned in an announcement that it has agreed with the US on rejecting the forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, a proposal repeatedly laid out by Israeli Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir.
- Former UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness instructed Al Jazeera that an Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) choice might put “large stress on the Individuals to deliver a few correct ceasefire” as Israel and South Africa head to The Hague later this week.
- Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri criticised Arab and Islamic nations which haven’t but expressed official help for South Africa’s name for genocide proceedings towards Israel on the ICJ.
- German Overseas Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in Israel on Sunday for conferences with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Overseas Minister Israel Katz.
Overseas Minister @ABaerbock has arrived for her 4th go to to Israel for the reason that Hamas terror assaults. She has come to satisfy President @Isaac_Herzog and her colleague minister @Israel_katz, hostage households, and consultants on the sexual crimes dedicated on 7/10. pic.twitter.com/yFGyocz2HP
— Steffen Seibert (@GerAmbTLV) January 7, 2024
West Financial institution raids
- There are reviews of ongoing raids in Bethlehem’s Dheisheh camp, Arroub camp, north of Hebron, Dura and Yatta, south of Hebron and Qabalan, south of Nablus.
- Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues have reported that Israeli forces arrested a physician and a nurse as they raided a number of places within the adjoining cities of Ramallah and el-Bireh within the occupied West Financial institution on Sunday night time.
- An Israeli settler assault on Sunday injured a person within the northern Jordan Valley area, simply northeast of the occupied West Financial institution. native sources instructed Palestinian information company Wafa.