- Palestinian Health Ministry says at least 107 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza in last 24 hours.
- US Secretary of State Blinken visits Egypt and Qatar to push for a deal between Israel and Hamas on a truce and the release of captives in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
- “There is nothing left,” says the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, describing leveled infrastructure in northern Gaza.
- UN truck carrying food supplies is hit by Israeli navy fire.
- At least 27,585 people have been killed and 66,978 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attacks stands at 1,139.
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Attack reported south of Yemen’s Aden: UKMTO
The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency received a report of an attack 50 nautical miles (92km) south of Yemen’s Aden.
Authorities are investigating the incident and no further details were provided.
It remains unclear who is behind the attack. Yemen’s Houthi rebels have regularly targeted vessels in the region in a show of solidarity with Palestinians facing Israeli attacks in Gaza.
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6,870 people arrested in occupied West Bank since Gaza war began
Israeli forces arrested 1,236 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including 30 women and 73 children, in the past month.
This brings the number of detainees in the occupied territory since October 7 to 6,870, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says.
Those arrested and their families were subjected to attacks that included severe beatings, and the use of relatives as hostages to pressure a wanted person to turn themselves in, it said.
Thousands of Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons [File: Mahmoud Issa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images] -
Voices from the occupied West Bank: ‘They’re forcing us into islands’
In the last instalment of Al Jazeera’s conversations with Palestinians living under occupation, respondents aired their fears and frustrations at life under what many rights organisations have classified as “apartheid”.
The eldercare worker who never thought he would work in Israel. The agricultural union worker who sees an Israeli annexation plan unfolding in the occupied West Bank’s most fertile area. The interior designer whose sadness and anger threaten to overwhelm him sometimes.
The proud father and grandfather who, for the first time in his life, is not sure he can provide for his family. And the communications manager who doesn’t understand why the world condemns Palestinian resistance.
Together they and others in this series speak from the heart about what it means to be Palestinian. Read their stories here.
Settler violence has sharply increased in the occupied West Bank since October 7 [Dylan Hollingsworth/Al Jazeera] -
Displaced Palestinians set up tents by Egyptian border
Over the past week, some 200,000 Palestinians fled the targeted city of Khan Younis to Rafah with the population swelling to 1.4 million.
Severe overcrowding of the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip led to more recent arrivals of displaced people to set up their tents right beside Egypt’s border wall.
Haneen al-Athamneh, a resident of Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza, told Maan news agency she and her family had been displaced several times before reaching Rafah.
“There are no services here. There is no food and only water is available through an Egyptian water line. We arrived a week ago after the Israeli army forced us to leave at gunpoint.”
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Israeli far-right protesters attempt to block aid bound for Gaza
Despite the Israeli army announcing the area as a closed military zone, dozens of Israeli demonstrators are attempting to prevent humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip on Israel’s side of the Karam Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) border crossing.
Videos posted on social media show protesters waving Israeli flags as they surround aid trucks waiting to cross. Israeli protests attempting to block aid entering Gaza have been ongoing for weeks.
Source:https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/6/israels-war-on-gaza-live-staggering-destruction-in-north-gaza-unrwa