- The United Nations has accused Israel of continuing to “systematically” hinder aid to Gaza as local authorities say a seventh forcibly displaced Palestinian has died of hypothermia amid plummeting temperatures.
- The family of Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the detained director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, has pleaded for his release as Palestinian authorities announce that five more detainees from Gaza have died in Israeli custody.
- Israeli forces have killed four Palestinians in an attack on besieged Jabalia in north Gaza after a day of bombings that killed at least 27 people across the Strip.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,541 Palestinians and wounded 108,338 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 says it intercepted missile launched from YemenA military statement says the missile was intercepted after the alerts were activated in the country’s centre.The missile was taken down before it crossed into the country’s territory and the alerts were activated due to fear of interception fragments falling, it added.The Houthi rebels in Yemen said earlier that they carried out two military operations targeting Israel’s Ben Gurion airport and a power station in the south of occupied East Jerusalem.
- Israel ‘getting away’ with destroying Gaza health systemIsrael is destroying Gaza’s health system, Sultan Barakat, a public policy professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, has told Al Jazeera, despite it being a clear violation of international law.“In terms of monitoring and reporting on Israel’s abuse and infringement of international law, they are not getting away with it because several organisations are reporting on this,” he said. “Where they are getting away with it is at the [UN] Security Council.”“It took just days to announce Russia as a state that has committed crimes for hitting one clinic in the past,” he added.Barakat said what made the difference was “political will,” in particular that of the United States.Speaking of Israel’s possible plans for the future of Gaza, Barakat said the military was likely to keep the northern portion of the Strip under occupation to “try and push Hamas as far away as possible from Tel Aviv”.“This would be in their eyes the best option before they try to implement the better plan, which is pushing Palestinians into the Naqab [Negev] desert into Egypt,” he said.
- If you’re just joining usHere’s a recap of the latest developments:
- Israel’s ambassador to the UN has issued what he called a final warning to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis to halt missile attacks on Israel, saying they risked the same “miserable fate” as Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad if they persisted.Houthi forces say they have carried out two military operations targeting Ben Gurion airport and a power station in the south of occupied East Jerusalem.Gaza’s civil defence says it received hundreds of distress calls from displaced people whose tents and shelters were flooded by rainwater.The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) is warning that Israel is continuing to dismantle the “very means of people’s survival” across Gaza, and is “systematically” hindering humanitarian access to the Palestinian enclave.The Israeli army is carrying out more raids in the occupied West Bank and arrested four Palestinians in the city of Qalqilya.
- Hamas appeals to UN, Muslim nations for aid to help with cold weather in Gaza.The Palestinian group has asked for “relief supplies and tents to protect hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians from the cold and the disastrous effects” of Israel’s attacks on the enclave.Hamas’s statement said: “The humanitarian and legal duty of the international community and the UN requires urgent action to provide relief to our people in the Gaza Strip, who have been subjected to a Zionist crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing.”The group’s appeal comes after the authorities in Gaza announced that at least seven Palestinians have died of hypothermia in Gaza, including six babies.Israel continues to strictly restrict the entry of aid into the enclave, including winter supplies.
LIVE: Israel continues to block Gaza aid; heavy rains flood tent camps
