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31-12-2024
GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces killed 30 Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, including seven people in an assault on al-Wafaa Hospital in Gaza City. The nearby Ahli Hospital was also shelled.
Gaza’s Government Media Office says a “significant” cold front will affect the Strip in the coming hours and days, amid reports that a fifth baby has died from hypothermia.
Calls are also growing for the release of Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital who was arrested after Israeli forces stormed the facility and set fire to it on Friday.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,484 Palestinians and wounded 108,090 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Malta’s UN envoy challenges Israel’s claims on aid trucks
Vanessa Frazier, the permanent representative of Malta to the UN, has pushed back against Israel’s claim that it is allowing aid into Gaza.
“Don’t be fooled by these numbers,” Frazier said in a post on X, referring to an Israeli military tweet that said some 1,290 humanitarian trucks had entered the war-torn enclave in the past week.
“Prior to the war on #gaza over 500 aid trucks entered Gaza daily,” Frazier said.
Israel’s claim came as concern grows over an imminent famine in Gaza, especially in the north, as the Israeli military continues to restrict aid into the blockaded territory. In addition to blocking aid, Israeli forces have also destroyed most local food sources in Gaza, including farms, orchards and fishing boats.
Malta joined 14 of the 15 members of the UN Security Council last month to call for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, in a resolution that was blocked by the United States.
We’ve been covering the renewed fighting between PA’s forces and fighters in Jenin.
The latest victim of the clashes was 21-year-old Shatha Sabbagh, a Palestinian journalist who was killed near her home in Jenin.
Her family says she was walking to a grocery store when a shot was fired from the direction of a PA security post.
The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli forces launched two waves of “large-scale” bombings in the southern town of Meiss el-Jabal on Sunday. The attacks come more than a month after Israel agreed to a ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah and as rescuers continue to search for those reported missing during the Israeli assault on the country.
In the southern town of Khiam, the Lebanese Civil Defence announced recovering the bodies of five people killed in the Israeli assault and said the effort to find all the missing people would continue in the week ahead.
Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed at least 3,961 people and 16,520 others since the war on Gaza began.
In a statement, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said the settlers’ actions were a “flagrant violation of international law”.
The ministry also called on the “international community to assume its ethical and legal responsibilities regarding Jerusalem and its sacred sites”.
As we reported earlier, multiple Israeli settlers filmed themselves making their way into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday, during the ongoing Hanukkah festival.
Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has also increased the Israeli military presence around the Mosque in recent days. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
