- Israel ramps up attacks across the Gaza Strip, including near hospitals and in the south of besieged enclave where ground operation is intensifying.
- Israel’s “indiscriminate bombardment” of Palestinian civilians in southern Gaza has reached “new depths”, Norwegian Refugee Council chief warns.
- The Palestine Red Crescent says it lost contact with its teams after telecommunication services cut off in Gaza amid Israeli bombings.
- At least 15,899 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7. In Israel, the official death toll stands at about 1,200.
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Disease spreading as 1.8 million people squeezed in area the ‘size of an airport’
Israel’s push to relocate Palestinians in Gaza to a small area in the south is making it impossible to deliver aid and driving up the risk of disease, Bushra Khalidi, a Ramallah-based legal expert and rights campaigner with Oxfam, warned.
“Squeezing people into a space that is basically as big as London’s Heathrow airport… is inhumane and makes it impossible to distribute aid to people,” Khalidi told Al Jazeera. “Gaza was already overpopulated… [now] we’re talking about 1.8 million people in an airport.”
Khalidi added that cholera and gastroenteritis is rapidly spreading due to the congested conditions.
“People are not getting better because conditions are not allowing them to get better,” she said.
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‘Region witnessing great challenges,’ Qatar emir says ahead of GCC summit
The 44th GCC summit is set to take place in Qatar today with the conflict in Gaza expected to top the agenda.
While welcoming the officials to the summit, Qatar’s emir said the summit was “being held at a time when our region and the world are witnessing great challenges in which our Gulf countries can play roles that contribute to resolving them and mitigating their effects”.
We will bring you all the news and updates from the summit right here.
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Israeli forces stage another deadly raid in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian man during a raid in the Qalandiya refugee camp north of Jerusalem, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reports.
Mohammad Yousef Hassan Manasra, 25, was killed when Israeli forces blew up the door to his home Tuesday morning, according to witnesses cited by WAFA. The Israeli forces then detained the man’s brother.
At least 468 Palestinians have been killed in near-daily occupied West Bank raids in 2023, reports WAFA. Of these, 260 have been killed since the October 7 war broke out in Gaza.
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Photos: Wounded Palestinians rushed to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis
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Iran says not involved in actions against US military forces: Report
Iran says that it has not been involved in any actions or attacks against United States military forces, according to the country’s United Nations envoy Amir Saeid Iravani.
Iravani’s comments, which the Tasnim news agency reported, come after the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen launched a series of attacks on Sunday against Israel-linked vessels in the Red Sea. Those attacks drew a response from a US warship deployed in one of the world’s busiest maritime routes.
On Monday, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Washington has “every reason to believe that these attacks [on vessels in the Red Sea], while they were launched by the Houthis in Yemen, are fully enabled by Iran.”
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Latest casualty figures
Gaza
Killed: 15,899
Wounded: 42,000Occupied West Bank
Killed: 260
Wounded: 3,365Israel
Killed: 1,147 in October 7 attack (revised down from 1,400)
Soldiers killed since October 7: 404
Wounded: 8,730Source: Palestinian Health Ministry, Israeli army
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‘State of panic’ after Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp bombed
Israeli jets targeted the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza this morning. Mohamed Washa, our colleague at Al Jazeera Arabic, has these updates from the camp:
- Bombs began raining down around 6:05am (04:05 GMT) while most residents were asleep, leading to a total “state of panic”.
- At least 15 houses were “completely destroyed” more than 15 people were killed, including children. Many wounded are still trapped under the rubble.
- Residents are now working with their bare hands to rescue victims. There is no equipment or ambulances, they said.
- “We have been destroyed,” said one resident who survived the attack. “We did nothing to deserve this… we were all sleeping.”
- Another survivor added: “Nobody cares about us. Those were unarmed people and innocent children, asleep.”
- The entrance to the camp has extremely narrow roads making it difficult for ambulances or firetrucks to get in.
