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27-12-2024
GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza, killing five journalists in an attack on their car in the central Nuseirat refugee camp, and five others in the bombing of a residential building in northern Gaza City. At least 30 people are reported missing in the latter assault.
Doctors say three Palestinian babies have died of hypothermia in displacement camps in southern Gaza as temperatures plummet and Israel’s blockade on food, water and essential winter supplies continues.
Hamas accuses Israel of setting “new conditions” in ongoing ceasefire talks and delaying a truce deal, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office blames the Palestinian group for creating “new obstacles”.
Israel’s military also intensifies its raid on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, sending in reinforcements, a day after killing eight people there. The victims include two women and a teenager.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,361 Palestinians and wounded 107,803 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.
More on the deadly Israeli attack on the Quds News Network’s journalists.
The satellite channel, in a post on X, said one of the slain journalists Ayman al-Jadi was waiting for the birth of his child at the al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp when he was killed.
“Stunning”, “mysterious” and “unexpected”, are among some of the words he used to describe what happened in the country this month.
The fall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad earlier in December has set millions of Yemenis thinking about what lies in store for their own country.
Some say the fall of the Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen who control Sanaa and much of northern and western Yemen may be the “next surprise” in the region.
“My friends have different views. Some called me, happy about the eclipse of the Syrian regime, and others were sad over such a scenario. We’re a highly divided society,” said Saleh.
Al-Assad’s defeat feels personal to Houthi supporters who see themselves as part of a broader, Iran-led, “axis of resistance” to Israel and the United States.
Under al-Assad, Syria was considered a key part of the axis and a route for the transfer of weapons between Iran, Iraq and Lebanon.
The focus has been pretty much on the north of the Strip, where the military operation is still ongoing. The obliteration operations by the ground forces who are destroying residential homes, civil infrastructure and even burning to the ground residential areas have been ongoing for more than two months, so far.
Civilians also, who are still inside Kamal Adwan Hospital alongside the medical teams, are reporting constant bombardment up in the vicinity of that facility.
Even here in the central area, the situation is quite tense, where we keep observing all the time the Israeli quadcopter drones and surveillance drones hovering across the sky of the central area.
On the ground here, we continue to hear from people different tragic stories about the relentless losses they have been overwhelmed with, while at the same time, there is no end in sight for the ongoing Israeli attacks, especially in areas that were designated to be safe humanitarian zones.
The Palestinian news organization has named the five journalists killed a short time ago in an Israeli air strike on a Quds New Network vehicle in front of the al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
