Footage and testimonies shared with Tel Aviv Tribune reveal how Israeli forces carried out summary executions in Gaza. Here are the other major updates.
Here’s how things are going on Saturday January 20, 2024:
Latest developments
- The United States said it was investigating the killing by Israeli forces of a 17-year-old American citizen east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
- Hezbollah has warned Israel that it will receive “a real slap in the face” if its forces intensify their fighting along the southern Lebanese border.
- Palestinians displaced in four evacuation zones in Gaza City were ordered by the Israeli army to leave and head towards central areas.
- Clashes erupted as Palestinians resisted an Israeli military raid on the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, where homes were searched and an Israeli military bulldozer destroyed civilian infrastructure, according to media reports Palestinians.
- A Palestinian armed group allied with Hamas said a prisoner held in Gaza died from injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike.
- A 20-year-old Palestinian man was shot and injured by Israeli forces during a raid in the Rafidia area, west of Nablus.
- Palestinian fighters claimed responsibility for attacks on Israeli forces in the Jabalia region of northern Gaza for the fourth day in a row, amid assessments from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and Critical Threats Project (CTP) indicate that armed groups in Gaza are being “sold out”. “infiltrators” in the north.
- The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has accused Israel of firing on a hospital in Khan Younis, as a major advance in the main city in the south of the Gaza Strip threatened the few health facilities still open.
- The Israeli army bombarded the al-Katiba area and the al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Younis.
- US Central Command forces carried out strikes against three Houthi anti-ship missiles that were aimed at the southern Red Sea and were ready for launch, according to the US military.
Human rights
- Footage and testimonies shared with Tel Aviv Tribune reveal how Israeli forces carried out summary executions in Gaza City last month.
- Dozens of Democratic Party politicians sign a letter calling on US President Joe Biden to affirm his opposition to Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.
- Legal advisers to the British government have been unable to conclude that Israel respected international humanitarian law in its war in Gaza, according to the Guardian newspaper, citing court documents.
- The United Nations women’s agency reports that 70 percent of those killed in Gaza are women and girls, and two mothers are killed “every hour” amid the Israeli attack on the Palestinian territory.