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UN officials have warned that the Gaza Strip is becoming uninhabitable. Here are the latest updates.
Here’s how things are going on Wednesday January 10, 2024:
Latest updates and human impact
- The US military says it has shot down drones and anti-ship missiles launched by Yemen’s Houthis over the Red Sea. These attacks were launched from the Yemeni port cities of Hodeidah and Mokha, according to private intelligence firm Ambrey.
- Israel is sending top lawyers, including a Holocaust survivor, to World Court hearings this week to counter allegations that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
- Eleven Palestinians have been killed every hour in the Gaza conflict that began in October, Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour said Tuesday.
- Self-built makeshift shelters for Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip are overcrowded, the UN humanitarian office OCHA said on Tuesday.
- The Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that at least 15 civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment west of the town of Rafah in the southern Strip. Gaza.
- The UN says shelling was again reported on Tuesday near Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.
- The Palestinian Labor Ministry announced a $2.4 million package to support Gaza workers who have been expelled from Israel since October 7 but cannot return home to the besieged enclave.
Diplomacy
- Jordanian, Egyptian and Palestinian leaders will hold a summit in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba on Wednesday to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip and press for a ceasefire in the besieged enclave.
- The UN plans to vote on a resolution on Wednesday that would condemn and demand an immediate end to attacks on Houthi commercial shipping in the Red Sea region.
- The International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed on Wednesday that it was investigating possible crimes against journalists in the Gaza Strip.
- Blinken said in Tel Aviv on Tuesday that Israel and the United States had agreed to a “plan for the UN to conduct an assessment mission” in northern Gaza, where they will determine what needs to be done to allow for displaced residents of northern Gaza to return home. .
- Lebanon is ready to hold negotiations for long-term stability on its border with Israel, interim Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Tuesday.
- Two UN experts on Tuesday condemned Israel’s alleged assassination of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri and six others in Lebanon last week, deploring Israel’s threat to eradicate Hamas leaders around the world, Anadolu reported.
- Spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Adnan Abu Hasna, said on Tuesday that Gaza was being transformed into an uninhabitable place.
- A group of rabbis from the group Rabbis for Ceasefire demonstrated in the UN Security Council Chamber on Tuesday and demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. They urged the United States to stop “vetoing peace.”
- At a session of the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, former British Prime Minister and current Foreign Secretary David Cameron sidestepped the question of whether Israel occupied the Gaza Strip.
Raids in occupied West Bank
- Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic and local news sources are reporting ongoing raids in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, where clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian civilians have been reported.
- Israeli settlers set up a mobile home on Palestinian land in the Khirbet ar-Rakeez area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday evening, according to local sources, Wafa reported.
- Israeli forces stormed and closed all entrances to the Old City of Nablus.
