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Six people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Here’s how things go on Sunday January 7, 2024:
Latest updates:
- An Israeli airstrike killed at least six people in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, with witnesses saying human remains were scattered at the scene.
- Armed fighting broke out in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli forces stormed the city and arrested at least one Palestinian.
- Jenin, Hebron, Qalqilya and Jericho in the occupied West Bank were also attacked by Israeli forces, sources told Tel Aviv Tribune.
- Hani al-Masdar, coach of the Palestinian Olympic football team, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Football Federation, which did not specify the area of the attack.
- Spokesman Daniel Hagari said the Israeli army had “dismantled” the Hamas leadership in northern Gaza and was now turning its attention to central and southern Gaza.
Human impact
- At least 22,722 people have been killed and 58,166 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll from the October 7 attack on Israel stands at 1,139.
- Gaza is experiencing “deliberate starvation and not starvation,” Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN special rapporteur on the right to health, said in a message on X, adding that “an immediate ceasefire” is necessary.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in a report sent to Security Council members, warned that “widespread famine threatens” in Gaza, according to Tel Aviv Tribune sources.
Diplomacy
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Jordan after a visit to Turkey as part of a Middle East tour that will also take him to Israel and the occupied West Bank.
- European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell sounded the alarm during a visit to Beirut over Lebanon being drawn into a regional conflict resulting from the war in Gaza.
- The French foreign minister said in a phone call to her Iranian counterpart that “Iran and its affiliates” must stop “destabilizing acts” that could lead to a wider conflict in the Middle East in the context of the Israeli offensive on Gaza.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a short video statement that Israel must not stop its war against Hamas until all of its goals have been achieved.
