No let-up in Israeli bombings in central and southern Gaza, while Israel uses famine as a weapon of war.
Here’s how things go on Sunday, February 25, 2024:
No respite in Israeli attack
- A two-month-old baby, named Mahmoud Fattouh, died of malnutrition at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Wafa news agency reported.
- No let-up in Israeli bombing in central and southern Gaza, as at least eight Palestinians were killed in an attack near a busy market in Rafah.
- An Israeli attack on a house caused a major fire in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza.
- Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, said the facility has seen a sharp increase in cases of malnutrition among children, especially among newborns.
- Moaz al-Majida, a pediatrician in Gaza, said breastfeeding mothers are unable to breastfeed due to a feeding crisis, which affects the health of their babies.
- The Israeli army said one of its soldiers was killed in Gaza and three others were seriously injured.
- The Norwegian Embassy in Palestine shared a social media post deploring the deaths of two Palestinian human rights lawyers, Nour Naser Abu al-Nour and Dana Yaghi, in Gaza.
- The latest situation report from the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says “increased airstrikes in Rafah have increased fears over already overstretched humanitarian operations” in the southern Gaza city .
Occupied West Bank and Israel updates
- Israeli forces beat eight Palestinians during a raid on Hebron in the occupied West Bank while they were being interrogated, Wafa reported.
- Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid strongly condemned police for using force against demonstrators demonstrating against President Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Tel Aviv.
Diplomacy
- Israeli negotiators will travel to Doha in the coming days to continue negotiations on the release of prisoners and a truce agreement, reports Israeli media Ynet.
- In an interview with Israeli newspaper N12 News, Israeli national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said Israeli delegates returning from talks with Qatari, Egyptian and American officials in Paris had planned a cabinet briefing of war, suggesting that “they do not feel that they have not returned empty”. handed over.”
- EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has described Israel’s plan to build 3,300 new homes in the occupied West Bank as “controversial and dangerous”.
Regional tensions
- US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has warned that Yemen’s Houthi rebels will continue to “bear the consequences” if they do not stop their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
- US Central Command said US and British forces, with support from Western allies, struck 18 Houthi targets in Yemen.
- UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), an information channel between military and commercial vessels, received a report of an explosion near a vessel 70 nautical miles (approximately 130 km) away. He is from Djibouti.