Israel’s war on Gaza live: Death toll in Gaza passes 26,000

Ashraf al-Qudra, the spokesman for the health ministry in the Gaza Strip, said that the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis has completely run out of food, anaesthetics, and painkillers as a result of the occupation’s siege imposed on it for the fifth day.

“There are 150 health personnel, 350 patients, and hundreds of displaced families in the Nasser Medical Complex in catastrophic conditions of starvation, targeting, and lack of treatment,” al-Qudra said.

It’s just after 11:30am (09:30 GMT) in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.

Here’s a recap of recent developments:

• Israeli forces ramp up deadly attacks on Khan Younis as they encircle the city’s two remaining hospitals.
• At least 183 Palestinians were killed and 377 injured in Gaza in 24 hours as the death toll there surpasses 26,000.
• The ICJ will soon deliver a ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. You can follow our live coverage here.
• Senior officials from Qatar, Israel, the US and Egypt will hold a “critical” meeting in Europe in the next few days.
• Israeli military demolished hundreds of buildings near its fence with Gaza as it seeks to create a “buffer zone” in clear defiance of US demands.

Several protesters interrupted a UK Labour Party event in Manchester, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

A man, who said he had lost his mother and several other family members in Gaza, confronted member of parliament Angela Raynor as she was speaking and showed pictures of his killed loved ones.

“Why are you not demanding a ceasefire?” he shouted before being taken away by security.

“Women and children dead, Angela Rayner, and you call yourself a modern-day feminist, I don’t think so,” a woman told the lawmaker before being taken away.

Among the casualties of Israeli sniper attacks, we’ve seen two brothers who were walking out of the facility of al-Amal Hospital. They were shot by the sniper despite the fact that one of them was carrying a white flag.

This is another reminder that Palestinian civilians are not protected.

It has become very difficult for people to find their way out of the city of Khan Younis. The city is increasingly dangerous.

The snipers are shooting at every moving object as people are trying to leave the facilities, seeking shelters elsewhere in the city or trying to find a way out of Khan Younis for a safer refuge.

The Israeli military has confirmed that it is continuing to target areas across the Gaza Strip with combined land, air and sea assaults.

It says its air force targeted operational centres, weapons storage facilities, observation posts and an anti-tank post belonging to Palestinian fighters and said its navy struck a number of targets along the coastline.

Avichay Adraee, the military’s spokesman for Arab media, confirmed that heavy fighting is ongoing in Khan Younis in the south but made no mention of ongoing Israeli attacks on hospitals and shelters in the area, which have forced many displaced Palestinians to be uprooted once more.

Families of captives held in Gaza and other protesters are holding a demonstration at the Israeli-controlled Karem Abu Salem crossing – called Kerem Shalom in Israel – to block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza for a third day in a row, according to multiple Israeli media reports.

Hundreds more protesters are expected to arrive at the border crossing throughout the day, according to Israeli media. The message of the protesters is that no humanitarian aid should be allowed into the besieged Gaza Strip until all remaining captives are freed and returned to Israel.

Source:https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/1/26/israels-war-on-gaza-live-icj-to-rule-on-south-africas-genocide-case