Dozens of Palestinians depart besieged Nasser Hospital in southern metropolis of Khan Younis after Israeli forces order an evacuation.
Right here’s how issues stand on Thursday, February 15, 2024:
Humanitarian disaster in Gaza
- Dozens of Palestinians were seen leaving the besieged Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s southern metropolis of Khan Younis after Israeli forces ordered the evacuation of the medical centre, however well being officers mentioned hundreds, together with critically unwell sufferers, stay inside.
- Heavy tank and machine gun fireplace have been reported because the Israeli military entered the hospital.
- The Israeli army described the assault as “exact and restricted”, including it was primarily based on “credible data” that Hamas fighters have been hiding within the facility and retaining captives there. A spokesperson for Hamas denied the allegations, calling them “lies”. Israel has made comparable claims prior to now however has not provided proof.
- Al Jazeera correspondents reported that a minimum of 11 folks have been killed in an intense bombardment on the Nuseirat refugee camp within the central a part of the Gaza Strip.
Regional tensions and diplomacy
- United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths warned that the 1.4 million Palestinians who’ve sought shelter in Rafah is perhaps compelled into Egypt if Israel launches its deliberate army operation towards the border city.
- “The potential for a army operation in Rafah with the opportunity of the crossing closing down, with the opportunity of spillover, … a type of Egyptian nightmare, … is one that’s proper earlier than our eyes,” Griffiths mentioned.
- Individually, america army’s Central Command, or CENTCOM, mentioned its forces have seized superior standard weapons and different deadly assist from Iran that have been sure for Houthi-held areas of Yemen on a vessel within the Arabian Sea on January 28.
- In Lebanon, Israeli warplanes carried out a wave of a minimum of 12 strikes within the Wadi Saluki space of Lebanon, in line with an Israeli army assertion posted on social media.
Occupied West Financial institution
- Israel arrested a minimum of 20 Palestinians within the West Financial institution, together with a baby and a former prisoner, the Palestinian Fee of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society mentioned.
- The arrests happened in Tulkarem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, Jenin and Jerusalem. The full variety of arrests since October 7 now stands at 7,040.