9/1/2025–|Last updated: 1/9/202510:05 AM (Mecca time)
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported today, Thursday, that a number of Palestinians were martyred and others wounded in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, while hospitals in the Gaza Strip are calling on international institutions to urgently bring fuel.
Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that 6 Palestinians were killed and 20 others were injured in the ongoing Israeli bombing of the central and southern Gaza Strip since dawn today.
In the northern Gaza Strip, 8 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli raid on a house in Jabalia al-Balad, and others were martyred and wounded in a bombing on Zainab al-Wazir School in Jabalia.
Yesterday, Wednesday, 50 Palestinians were martyred in Israeli raids, 33 of them in the northern Gaza Strip.
The number of victims of the Israeli aggression on Gaza has risen to more than 45,000 martyrs and 109,000 injured since October 7, 2023, at a time when the White House announced that Israel did not commit genocide against the Palestinians.
Running out of fuel
On the health front, officials of the Nasser Medical Complex, in Khan Yunis, announced the cessation of all medical services, with the exception of the care and operations departments, as a result of the fuel crisis, which led to the cessation of generators.
The management of the medical complex warned of a humanitarian and health catastrophe, which could lead to the death of patients from suffocation in the intensive care unit, and appealed to international institutions to intervene urgently to bring in fuel, to ensure the continued provision of medical services.
For his part, the director of Al Awda Hospital, in the northern Gaza Strip, Dr. Muhammad Salha, said that Israeli army vehicles surrounded the hospital, opened fire randomly in its vicinity, and dropped bombs in its courtyard.
Salha confirmed that the occupation forces burned a number of houses adjacent to the hospital, and warned of the danger and deterioration of the situation inside the hospital, after a siege of more than 95 days, and the occupation authorities preventing the entry of medicines, fuel and food.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said that a very limited amount of fuel had been received for hospital generators, and the Ministry repeated its appeal to the concerned, international and humanitarian institutions for the necessity and speed of intervention, to provide the full need for fuel and secure it periodically.
Exchange deal developments
On the political level, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the agreement on the hostages and a ceasefire in the Middle East is very close.
He added in a joint press conference with his French counterpart in Paris that he hopes to complete the agreement in the remaining time of President Joe Biden’s administration.
NBC News reported, citing White House officials, that the Biden administration informed President-elect Donald Trump’s advisor of the progress made regarding the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
The Israeli “Wala” website quoted an informed source as saying that Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer will meet today in Florida with Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, and discuss with him a prisoner exchange deal.
The source added that Witkopf is expected to head to Doha tonight to join talks on the deal.
Before leaving for Doha, Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Stephen Witkoff, told Israeli Channel 12 that reaching a swap deal was one of President Trump’s priorities before his inauguration.
