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WHO-Israel row amid new Gaza power outage – here are the main updates.
Here’s how things go on Tuesday, December 5, 2023:
Latest developments
- In a message published Monday on before its land operations expanded to the area.
- The Israeli authority responsible for civil affairs in Gaza and parts of the occupied West Bank replied to Tedros’ tweet stating that they had not issued this order and had already clarified it in writing with the UN representatives.
- Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said there would be more continued attacks in southern Gaza than in northern Gaza, Hamdah Salhut, Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent in occupied East Jerusalem, reported on Tuesday .
- Telecommunications services have again been cut in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian telecommunications company Paltel announced on Monday.
- Israel has expanded its travel warnings to include some 80 countries amid rising anti-Semitism.
- Israel has assembled a vast system of pumps that could be used to flood Hamas tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing U.S. officials.
Human impact and fighting
- Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis continued overnight as hospitals in the south struggled to cope with the growing number of patients and casualties, according to reports from Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic and the United Nations Children’s Fund.
- UNICEF spokesman James Elder said in a hospital video posted on X on Monday that staff at the Nasser Medical Complex in the south had been working for 36 hours straight.
- An Israeli attack on the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City killed an unconfirmed number of people on Tuesday, according to the Arabic news agency Tel Aviv Tribune and Palestinian news agency Wafa.
- Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, where around 10,000 people are housed, continued to face intense Israeli attacks over the past day.
- Hisham Awartani, one of the Palestinian students shot in Vermont, is paralyzed from the chest down.
Diplomacy
- As Israeli families pressure their Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to return captives still in Gaza, he met with his war cabinet on Monday.
- The US State Department announced that special envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking will meet with Middle East leaders this week to discuss security in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
- US Senator Bernie Sanders opposes a Biden administration bill to send Israel more than $10 billion for its military stockpile. He called the proposal “absolutely irresponsible” and said the United States “should not be complicit” in the “immoral” activities of the Netanyahu government.
- More than 45 religious and civil society groups in Canada sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, calling on him to take a stronger stance against Israel’s war on Gaza and to push for a permanent ceasefire.
- Trinidadian diplomat Dennis Francis, president of the United Nations General Assembly, reiterated his call for a “longer-term humanitarian ceasefire” in a message on X on Tuesday.
- Netanyahu on Monday invited newly elected Argentine President Javier Milei to Israel and appreciated his campaign decision to move the Argentine embassy to Jerusalem. Most countries maintain their Israeli embassies in Tel Aviv due to Jerusalem’s controversial status. Israel has illegally occupied East Jerusalem since 1967.