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The Tel Aviv Tribune journalist’s son was killed by an Israeli missile and Al-Aqsa Hospital was evacuated. Here’s the last one.
Here’s how things look on Monday January 8, 2024:
Latest updates
- The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza has been partially evacuated due to increased Israeli military activity. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus job On Sunday X, around 600 patients and medical staff were forced to leave and their whereabouts are unknown.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government was grappling with a “scourge of leaks” and proposed that ministers who attend security meetings submit to a polygraph test.
- Divisions are growing within the Israeli government. Three National Unity Party ministers, including Benny Gantz, boycotted a meeting, Tel Aviv Tribune’s Hamdah Salhut reported.
- Israel has indicated it is ready to end its bombing of northern Gaza, saying it has “dismantled” Hamas in that part of the Gaza Strip. However, intense military operations are expected to continue in the rest of the enclave.
- The WHO canceled a mission to al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza for the fourth time since December 26 after the UN agency failed to obtain security guarantees.
Today, @WHO canceled a planned mission to Al-Awda hospital and central pharmacy in the north #Gaza for the fourth time since December 26 because we have not received guarantees of disconfrontation and security.
The mission planned to move urgently needed medical supplies to support the… pic.twitter.com/6v09rPbBb1
— WHO in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (@WHOoPt) January 7, 2024
Human impact and fighting
- At least 73 Palestinians have been killed and 99 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza over the past 24 hours, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
- Palestinian media reported that at least eight people were killed after an Israeli airstrike hit a house in the town of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
- Hamza Dahdouh, the eldest son of Tel Aviv Tribune Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, was killed by an Israeli missile attack on a vehicle in Khan Younis.
- Journalist Mustafa Thuraya was also killed in this attack. The missile hit the vehicle near al-Mawasi, a supposedly safe area to the southwest.
- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said on Sunday that 142 of its employees had been killed by ongoing Israeli air raids on Gaza since the war began on October 7.
Diplomacy
- A large group of people gathered outside the US Embassy in Stockholm on Sunday to protest ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza.
- During a diplomatic visit to the Middle East, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the leaders of Qatar and Jordan.
- Jordan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it agreed with the United States on rejecting the forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, a proposal repeatedly put forward by Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir.
- Former UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness told Tel Aviv Tribune that a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) could put “enormous pressure on the Americans to bring about a real ceasefire.” fire” as Israel and South Africa head to The Hague later this week.
- Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri criticized Arab and Islamic countries that have yet to express official support for South Africa’s call for genocide proceedings against Israel at the ICJ.
- German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in Israel on Sunday to meet Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Foreign Minister Israel Katz.
Minister of Foreign Affairs @ABaerbock arrived for her 4th visit to Israel since the Hamas terrorist attacks. She came to meet the President @Isaac_Herzog and his fellow minister @Israel_katzfamilies of hostages and experts on the sexual crimes committed on July 10. pic.twitter.com/yFGyocz2HP
– Steffen Seibert (@GerAmbTLV) January 7, 2024
Raids in the West Bank
- Raids were reported in Dheisheh camps in Bethlehem, Arroub camp, north of Hebron, Dura and Yatta, south of Hebron, and Qabalan, south of Nablus.
- Arab colleagues at Tel Aviv Tribune reported that Israeli forces arrested a doctor and a nurse while carrying out raids in several locations in the neighboring towns of Ramallah and el-Bireh in the occupied West Bank on Sunday evening.
- On Sunday, an attack by Israeli settlers injured a man in the northern Jordan Valley region, just northeast of the occupied West Bank. local sources told the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
