- The Kamal Adwan Hospital’s director said about 50 people have been killed, including five medical staff, in an Israeli air strike on a building near the hospital in northern Gaza.
- Israel attacked a house overnight in Gaza City, killing at least nine people, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
- A fourth Palestinian baby has died due to extreme cold in Gaza over the past 72 hours, as hundreds of thousands of people displaced by Israel’s war struggle to keep warm in flimsy tents, Wafa reports.
- The head of the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) was at Yemen’s Sanaa airport when it was bombed by Israeli warplanes and at least six people were reported killed in Israel’s latest strikes on the country.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,399 Palestinians and wounded 107,940 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
- Israeli army bombs residential building in Gaza City: Civil DefenceThe Israeli army has bombed a house on al-Nadim Street in Gaza City’s Zaytoun neighbourhood, the Strip’s Civil Defence has said.The organisation said it dispatched teams to conduct rescue operations but were prevented from reaching the area due to ongoing attacks.It added that the Israeli military rejected attempts by the Red Cross to coordinate assistance.“Our crews are waiting for the right opportunity to reach this home” to rescue any survivors, it said.
- Israeli military permitted killing large numbers of civilians in Gaza: ReportThe Israeli military dramatically loosened its rules of engagement in the opening months of its war on Gaza, leading to massive civilian casualties, according to an investigation by The New York Times based on dozens of interviews with Israeli and US soldiers and officials.The investigation, published on Friday, confirms the existence of an order issued to Israeli officers that allowed their troops to kill up to 20 civilians when targeting a single Hamas fighter.“Mid-ranking officers had never been given so much leeway to attack so many targets, many of which had lower military significance, at such a high potential civilian cost,” The New York Times report states.The Times report comes months after the first report on the subject by +972 magazine in April, which revealed the existence of the order allowing officers to kill up to 20 civilians. The magazine also revealed the existence of the Lavender target selection programme, and the heavy reliance of the Israeli military on artificial intelligence to identify people to attack.Sources also told +972 that, in the event that a target was a suspected senior Hamas official, the Israeli army on several occasions authorised the killing of more than 100 civilians “in the assassination of a single commander”.
- Female Israeli soldiers pose for a selfie near the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, in February 2024 [Tsafrir Abayov/AP Photo]
- Israeli military storms Kamal Adwan HospitalAl Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza reports that the Israeli military has raided the hospital in northern Gaza.We will bring you more information on the situation shortly.
- Kamal Adwan patients leave hospital, gather in courtyard of besieged facility: ReportWe are receiving reports that Israel’s military has forced dozens of sick and injured patient to leave Kamal Adwan Hospital.About 75 patients are now in the courtyard of the facility, which has been under sustained attack for weeks, and many have no protection from the cold weather in Gaza, a Palestinian journalist based in Gaza wrote on social media.Al Jazeera’s journalist in central Gaza, Hani Mahmoud, reported a short time ago that Israeli officers used loudspeakers to give staff and patients a 15-minute deadline to leave the hospital.Communication has also been cut at the hospital in what is believed to be preparation for Israeli troops to storm the facility.
- Babies in Gaza die of hypothermia as living conditions worsenThree infants have died of hypothermia in a tent camp for people in Gaza forcibly displaced from their homes by Israel’s military.The babies froze to death as temperatures plummeted in the war-torn enclave as winter sets in and tens of thousands of people struggle to keep warm in tent shelters.Mahmoud al-Faseeh, the father of a baby girl who died, told of how he found his daughter “stiff from the cold”.
LIVE: Israel bombs Yemen, kills 50 people near northern Gaza hospital
