[RD] War in Gaza News: Pas de Deux

Lighter to transport than water to transport for use if your transporters are under threat.
 
Both cloth and disposable Diapers would be way easier logistically to transport than water obviously, but logistics isn't the only obstacle. It seems like cost is another major one. But regardless of whether you (the royal you) are using cloth or extremely rare/hard to get plastic/disposable diapers, if you're washing them anyway... you still need water. To me it just seems like since you need water anyway... using cloth to wrap your children's buttocks would be the better option over the disintegrating plastic, but I'm not there... I don't have all the context.
 
Necessity is a mother.
 

Israeli strikes kill 12 guarding Gaza aid lorries, medics say​

At least 35 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, including 12 guarding incoming aid lorries, local medics and the Hamas-run Civil Defence authority say.
Seven guards were killed in a strike in Rafah while protecting aid lorries from violent armed theft, which UN workers say is the main obstacle to getting supplies into southern Gaza. Another attack left five guards dead in Khan Younis.
The Israeli military said it "conducted precise strikes on armed Hamas terrorists" who had planned to hijack the lorries.
In a separate Israeli attack, 15 people were killed near Nuseirat refugee camp, the Civil Defence said.

"The occupation once again targeted those securing the aid trucks," Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal told the AFP news agency.
He added that around 30 people, most of them children, were also wounded in the two strikes.
The lorries were carrying flour to warehouses belonging to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), Mr Basal said.
Recently - amid severe food shortages - UN workers say violent armed thefts have been the main obstacle to getting aid into the southern part of Gaza. Civilians, as well as remnants of Hamas police, have mobilised to try to counter the gangs.
Hamas says Israeli military strikes have killed at least 700 police tasked with securing aid lorries in Gaza since the latest war began on 7 October 2023.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said: "Overnight, following intelligence information indicating the presence of Hamas terrorists, the IDF conducted precise strikes on armed Hamas terrorists gathered at two different meeting points in southern Gaza."
It added that "all of the terrorists that were eliminated were members of Hamas and planned to violently hijack humanitarian aid trucks and transfer them to Hamas".
Separately, Israeli air strikes on two homes near Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, and Gaza City, in the north, killed 21 more people, the Civil Defence said.
At least six children were among the 15 people killed in Nuseirat, while the bodies of six other people were found after a strike on an apartment in Gaza City, Mr Basal said.
Israel launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the Palestinian group's unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
More than 44,800 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
After months of failed international efforts to end the war, Israel's defence minister has told his US counterpart there is a chance for a new deal that would allow the return of all of the remaining hostages, including American citizens.
Other reports have suggested a limited deal with Hamas is being discussed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk0x64ll8jo
 
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Every single building - demolished. Look like IDF sappers have a lot of work
 
Well long ago I asked how Oct 7 improved Palestinian lives to thise justifying it.

Seems as per usual it's made a bad situation worse and a complete geostrategic disaster for Hamas, Hezbollah and puppet master Iran.

FAFO. Oh Iran lost Syria and land access to Lebanon added bonus for Hezbollah.

Entirely predictable except maybe the Syrian collapse.

Keep cheering on Russia and Iran.
 

Dozens of Palestinians sheltering in Gaza post office killed in single Israeli strike​

Israel says its target was an Islamic Jihad leader of attacks on Israeli civilians and troops​

An Israeli strike on a post office sheltering Gaza residents killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded 50, medics said, and the Israeli military said on Friday it had been targeting a senior Islamic Jihad member.

Families displaced by the 14-month-old conflict had sought refuge in the postal facility in the Nuseirat camp, and the strike late on Thursday brought the day's death toll in the enclave to 66, the medics said.

Israel said its target was an Islamic Jihad leader of attacks on Israeli civilians and troops and accused the militant group of exploiting civilian infrastructure and population as a human shield for its activities.

An Israeli military statement said it was reviewing reports on the number of casualties. It did not identify the Islamic Jihad member by name.

Nuseirat is one of the Gaza Strip's eight historic camps originally for Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war around the establishment of Israel. Today, it is part of a dense urban area crowded with displaced people from throughout the enclave.

13 dead in strikes in south​

Earlier on Thursday, two Israeli strikes in southern Gaza killed 13 Palestinians who Gaza medics and Hamas said were part of a force protecting humanitarian aid trucks. Israel's military said they were Hamas militants trying to hijack the shipment.

Many of those killed in the attacks on Rafah and Khan Younis had links to Hamas, according to sources close to the militant group.

The Israeli military said in a statement the two airstrikes aimed to ensure the safe delivery of humanitarian aid and accused Hamas members of planning to prevent the aid from reaching Gaza civilians who need it.

Armed gangs have repeatedly hijacked aid trucks, and Hamas has formed a task force to confront them. The Hamas-led forces have killed over two dozen members of the gangs in recent months, Hamas sources and medics said.

Hamas said Israeli military strikes have killed at least 700 police tasked with securing aid trucks in Gaza since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023.

Gaza City evacuation warning​

Separately, the Israeli military on Thursday ordered residents of several districts in the heart of Gaza City to evacuate, saying it would respond to rockets fired from those areas. At nightfall on Thursday, dozens of families streamed out of the areas heading toward the centre of the city.

Months of ceasefire efforts by Arab mediators, Egypt and Qatar, backed by the United States, have failed to conclude a deal between the two warring sides.

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in Tel Aviv on Thursday he believed a deal on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release may be close as Israel had signaled it was ready and there were signs of movement from Hamas.

The war in the Palestinian enclave began after Hamas-led gunmen stormed into Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages back to Hamas-run Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.

Gaza's Health Ministry says that Israel's military campaign since then has killed more than 44,400 Palestinians and injured countless others. The Palestinian civil emergency service estimates that the bodies of 10,000 people may be trapped under the rubble, which would take the reported death toll to more than 50,000.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-strike-post-office-gaza-1.7409462
 

What Hamas wrought​

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What Hamas wrought

Instead of igniting a war that would destroy Israel, the militant group lit the fuse that set much of the region on fire, burning its own allies above all.
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No one would accuse Hamas leaders of being the first to make a strategic miscalculation of epic proportions in the Middle East. After all, from Napoleon to former U.S. President George W. Bush, the region’s history is strewn with the calling cards of leaders whose ambitions turned to disaster.
Even so, the collapse of Syria’s Assad family dynasty — a more than half-century-old enterprise of brutality, repression and corruption — places Hamas’ plans to reshape the Middle East in firm contention for the title of (to paraphrase another contender, Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein) the Mother of all Miscalculations.
Hamas did mean to cause regional upheaval. But surely, the last thing it wanted was to trigger the unraveling of the so-called “Axis of Resistance,” Israel’s encirclement engineered by Iran. Yet that’s exactly what it did.
Shortly after the Oct. 7 rampage — or the “big project” as Hamas called it — one of its leaders explained to the New York Times that the goal was to “change the entire equation and not just have a clash” with Israel. And indeed, the entire equation has now changed, just not in the way Hamas intended.
Obtained by news organizations, detailed minutes of the militant group’s planning meetings describe the deliberations that took place during its secret stages. Later dubbed the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” the plan aimed to bring in Iran’s network of proxies, along with Palestinians across Israel, the West Bank and other Arab countries, to start a renewed perennial war against Israel.
Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy that had become the most powerful player in Lebanon and a crucial element in Iran’s international network, provided Hamas with support in this, although it seemed less than wholehearted. Even so, it ended up costing Hezbollah dearly, just as it later did Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.
The documents also show a perfunctory comment by Yahya Sinwar, the group’s then leader in the enclave, saying ordinary Gazans would face sacrifices. Similarly, in a television interview, exiled Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad explained that Palestinians are “proud to sacrifice martyrs.” And unsurprisingly, the only part of Hamas’ project that unfolded as expected was the calamity that befell the Palestinians of Gaza.
Initially, however, the operation succeeded beyond Sinwar’s wildest dreams. Oct. 7 was a catastrophe for Israel, the deadliest day since the Holocaust for the Jewish people. And Israel has undoubtedly paid a high price in diplomacy and reputation in the wake of its ferocious response to the attack.
And yet, Hamas’ decision resulted in much greater devastation — human, strategic and political — to its own side.
Israel’s furious counterattack has left Gaza in ruins and crushed Hamas into a faint remnant of its former self. And the tsunami triggered by Oct. 7 hasn’t stopped sweeping the region since.
A few days after the attacks, Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif urged Palestinians in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa and across the West Bank to join in the fight, telling them to “kill, burn, destroy…” But no such uprising occurred, and Deif himself was killed by Israel last summer — as were most of Hamas’ leaders, including Sinwar, the mastermind of the attack.
Sinwar was killed in Gaza two months ago, shortly after the group’s exiled leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the stunning explosion of an Iranian government guesthouse in Tehran. Only hours earlier, at the inauguration of the Islamic Republic’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian, the two had clasped their hands in the air, conspicuously reaffirming their partnership. But by then, Iran’s dominance over several Arab countries was already facing disaster.
In solidarity with Hamas, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah had started launching rockets at Israel on Oct. 8, vowing keep going as long as the war continued. Israel, meanwhile, demanded an end to the bombing so that tens of thousands of displaced Israelis could return to their homes. Then, one day in mid-September 2024, in an operation that seemed like crude science fiction, the pagers of Hezbollah fighters started exploding, maiming hundreds across Lebanon. Their walkie-talkies blew up next.
It wasn’t just Hezbollah’s equipment that was infiltrated either. Day after day, Israel bombed the meeting places of the Shiite militia’s top echelons. And on Sept. 27, an Israeli strike in Beirut killed Nasrallah, the man who had led Hezbollah for more than 30 years.
Under Nasrallah’s leadership, and later with Russia’s support, Hezbollah had saved Assad from his own people in a raging civil war. He had worked to establish pro-Iran militias in Iraq, build the Houthis in Yemen and, above all, turned his group into one of the most important component of Iran’s anti-Israel strategy. The mightiest of Tehran’s proxies, the group seemingly guaranteed that if Israel tried to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations, its vast arsenal could be unleashed against the Jewish state.
But Israel killed Nasrallah, followed by his presumed successor Hashem Safieddine and then, among other top leaders, Hezbollah’s military commander Ibrahim Akil, who was wanted by the U.S. in connection with the 1983 bombing of its Beirut embassy. Hezbollah’s top echelons were essentially destroyed, along with much of its deadly arsenal.
So, with thousands of Hezbollah fighters injured or dead, the group’s leadership decimated, and Russia — Assad’s other patron — tangled up in another conflict, unlikely to forcefully come to his aide, rebels in Syria saw their moment.
There was no one left to defend Assad, and the offensive took less than two weeks. The Syrian leader had to flee, and the Alawite regime he inherited — built by his father Hafez Assad more than 50 years ago — quickly crumbled.
Who could have imagined that the Oct. 7 attacks would end in the collapse of the Assad regime, the death of Nasrallah, the defanging (at least for now) of Hezbollah, the collapse of much of Iran’s ability to project power across the Middle East and the humiliation of Russia as its protégé became a political refugee and Moscow’s ability to project power in the region was crippled?
Alas, nobody knows what’s next for the region. Nerves are on edge. It’s too soon for anyone to confidently declare anything like a lasting victory. The aftermath of Hamas’ monumental miscalculation is yet another Middle East lesson in the law of unexpected consequences.
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Israel to close embassy in Ireland over 'anti-Israel' policies​

Israel will close its embassy in Dublin over "the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government", its foreign minister has said.
Gideon Saar said the Republic of Ireland had crossed "every red line".
In a statement, he said Israel's ambassador to Dublin had been recalled in the past following what it called Ireland's "unilateral decision to recognise a Palestinian state".
He added that the decision followed Ireland's announcement of its support for South Africa's legal action against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing the country of "genocide".

Mr Saar said: "The actions and anti-Semitic rhetoric used by Ireland against Israel are rooted in the de-legitimisation and demonisation of the Jewish state, along with double standards.
"Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide according to priorities that also take into account the attitudes and actions of these states toward Israel."

'Ireland is pro-peace'​

Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Simon Harris said the decision by Israel to close its Irish embassy is "deeply regrettable".
He also rejects that Ireland is anti-Israel.

'Regret that decison'​

Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Micheál Martin has said there are no plans to close its embassy in Israel.
Martin said he had been informed by the government of Israel of its decision to close its embassy in Dublin.
He said: "I believe firmly in the importance of maintaining diplomatic channels of communication and regret that this decision has been taken."
"Ireland's position on the conflict in the Middle East has always been guided by the principles of international law and the obligation on all states to adhere to international humanitarian law."
He said the continuation of the war in Gaza and the "loss of innocent lives is simply unacceptable and contravenes international law."
He added: "It represents the collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza. We need an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza."
Mr Martin said Ireland and Israel will continue to maintain diplomatic relations, adding: "Inherent in that is the right to agree and disagree on fundamental points.
On 7 October last year, Hamas launched an attack in southern Israel killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
In retaliation, Israel launched a massive operation inside the Gaza Strip with the stated aim of eliminating Hamas.
So far, at least 44,875 people have been killed and more than 100,000 injured - mostly civilians, the Hamas-run health ministry says. The UN regards these figures as reliable.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq62mge27r0o
 

Israeli strikes kill 50 in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says​

More than 50 people were killed in Israeli air and ground attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to local medics and rescuers.
They said children, a cameraman who worked for the Al Jazeera TV network and personnel from the Civil Defence agency were among the dead.
The Israeli military said it targeted sites used by Hamas and the allied armed group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The Hamas-run health ministry said the deaths meant the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza during the 14-month war between Israel and Hamas had surpassed 45,000.

The ministry does not make a distinction between combatants and civilians, but it reported in October that 29,980 children, women and elderly were among the identified fatalities.
The figures are often disputed by the Israeli government, which says almost 20,000 "terrorists" have been killed, but they are broadly accepted by UN agencies.
The war began when Hamas-led gunmen carried out an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

Many of those killed on Sunday were in a UN-run school being used as a shelter for displaced families in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Harrowing footage showed a bloody scene on the third floor of Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz School, with children's bodies apparently among those being removed.
"People were safe, staying in their homes after they prayed the dinner prayer. They were sitting, sleeping, and staying put in their places," Manal Tafesh, whose brother and his children were among those killed, told Reuters news agency outside a local mortuary.
Medics said at least 13 people were killed, while a spokeswoman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said she had heard reports of around 20 casualties, many of them women and children.
"It's just doesn't stop. It's so relentless the pain and the suffering that we continue to have," Louise Wateridge told the BBC from central Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had "conducted a precise strike on Hamas terrorists who were operating inside a command-and-control centre" embedded within the school.
It also accused Hamas and other armed groups of exploiting civilians and using civilian infrastructure as human shields.
Medics said several more people were killed at another school-turned-shelter in the northern town of Beit Hanoun, which the UN said has been under siege by Israeli forces for more than two months.
The UN said it was monitoring reports that more than 1,500 people were newly displaced after Israeli forces besieged Khalil Aweida school and shelled it.
The IDF said on Sunday that its forces "conducted a targeted raid on a terrorist meeting point in the Beit Hanoun area".
"In co-operation with the [Israeli Air Force], the troops struck dozens of terrorists from both the air and ground, and additional terrorists were apprehended," it added.

Another strike hit a Civil Defence building in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal said the strike killed the directors of its Nuseirat and Sheikh Radwan centres along with two volunteers, one of whom he named as Ahmad Baker al-Louh. Another five people were injured, three of them critically, he added.
"The Israeli occupation has once again shown the world that there is no protection for humanitarian workers in Gaza and no adherence to international humanitarian laws," he said, adding that 94 Civil Defence workers had been killed since the start of the war.
Ahmad al-Louh was a cameraman for the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network, which strongly condemned what it called Israel's "targeted killing" of its journalist.
It said Louh had been covering a rescue operation by the Civil Defence following an earlier strike on Sunday and that it came "just days after the targeting of his house".
"The network calls on all human rights and media organisations to condemn the Israeli occupation's systematic killing of journalists in cold blood, the evasion of responsibilities under international humanitarian law, and to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice," a statement said.
The IDF said the Civil Defence building was used by "terrorists to plan and carry out an imminent terror attack against IDF troops".
"Among the terrorists eliminated in the strike was the Islamic Jihad terrorist Ahmad Bakr al-Louh, who previously served as a platoon commander in the Islamic Jihad's Central Camps Brigade," it alleged, without providing any evidence.
Al Jazeera did not comment on the Israeli allegation, but Louh's cousin Mahmoud told the Associated Press: "We were stunned by the Israeli occupation statement."
"These claims are lies and misleading to cover up this crime," he added.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 137 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Israel and Lebanon since the war began.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rnvy1zn10o
 

'No Civilians. Everyone's a Terrorist': IDF Soldiers Expose Arbitrary Killings and Rampant Lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim Corridor​

'Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members': IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news...corridor/00000193-da7f-de86-a9f3-fefff2e50000
 
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Israel to close embassy in Ireland over 'anti-Israel' policies​

Israel will close its embassy in Dublin over "the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government", its foreign minister has said.
Gideon Saar said the Republic of Ireland had crossed "every red line".
In a statement, he said Israel's ambassador to Dublin had been recalled in the past following what it called Ireland's "unilateral decision to recognise a Palestinian state".
He added that the decision followed Ireland's announcement of its support for South Africa's legal action against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing the country of "genocide".

Mr Saar said: "The actions and anti-Semitic rhetoric used by Ireland against Israel are rooted in the de-legitimisation and demonisation of the Jewish state, along with double standards.
"Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide according to priorities that also take into account the attitudes and actions of these states toward Israel."

'Ireland is pro-peace'​

Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Simon Harris said the decision by Israel to close its Irish embassy is "deeply regrettable".
He also rejects that Ireland is anti-Israel.

'Regret that decison'​

Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Micheál Martin has said there are no plans to close its embassy in Israel.
Martin said he had been informed by the government of Israel of its decision to close its embassy in Dublin.
He said: "I believe firmly in the importance of maintaining diplomatic channels of communication and regret that this decision has been taken."
"Ireland's position on the conflict in the Middle East has always been guided by the principles of international law and the obligation on all states to adhere to international humanitarian law."
He said the continuation of the war in Gaza and the "loss of innocent lives is simply unacceptable and contravenes international law."
He added: "It represents the collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza. We need an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza."
Mr Martin said Ireland and Israel will continue to maintain diplomatic relations, adding: "Inherent in that is the right to agree and disagree on fundamental points.
On 7 October last year, Hamas launched an attack in southern Israel killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
In retaliation, Israel launched a massive operation inside the Gaza Strip with the stated aim of eliminating Hamas.
So far, at least 44,875 people have been killed and more than 100,000 injured - mostly civilians, the Hamas-run health ministry says. The UN regards these figures as reliable.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq62mge27r0o
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Embassy of Israel, Dublin - Wikipedia

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fwiw, well this says Ireland only accepted an Israeli embassy in 1993 so they've gone many more years without one than with one, unlike most other EU countries.
 

Israeli army forces patients out of a north Gaza hospital: medics​

Officials at 3 northern hospitals have so far refused orders by Israel to evacuate, abandon patients​

Israeli troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and many patients, some of them on foot, arrived at another hospital miles away in Gaza City, the territory's health ministry said on Tuesday.

The Indonesian Hospital is one of the Gaza Strip's few still partially functioning hospitals, on its northern edge, an area that has been under intense Israeli military pressure for nearly three months.

Israel says its operation around the three northern Gaza communities surrounding the hospital — Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia — is targeting Hamas militants.

Palestinians accuse Israel of seeking to permanently depopulate northern Gaza to create a buffer zone, which Israel denies.

Munir Al-Bursh, director of the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, said the Israeli army had ordered hospital officials to evacuate it on Monday, before storming it in the early hours of Tuesday and forcing those inside to leave.

He said two other medical facilities in northern Gaza, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan Hospitals, were also subject to frequent assaults by Israeli troops operating in the area.

"Occupation forces have taken the three hospitals out of medical service because of the repeated attacks that undermined them and destroyed parts of them," Bursh said in a statement Tuesday.

The Israeli military said it was looking into the report.

Hospital officials refusing to evacuate, leave patients​

Officials at the three hospitals have so far refused orders by Israel to evacuate their facilities or leave patients unattended since the new military offensive began on Oct. 5.

Israel says it has been facilitating the delivery of medical supplies, fuel and the transfer of patients to other hospitals in the enclave during that period in collaboration with international agencies such as the World Health Organization.

Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, said they resisted a new order by the army to evacuate hundreds of patients, their companions and staff, adding that the hospital has been under constant Israeli fire that damaged generators, oxygen pumps and parts of the building.

Israeli forces have operated in the vicinity of the hospital since Monday, medics said.

Meanwhile, Israeli bombardment continued elsewhere in the enclave and medics said at least nine Palestinians, including a member of the civil emergency service, were killed in four separate military strikes across the enclave on Tuesday.

The war in Gaza was triggered by Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.

Israel's campaign against Hamas has since killed more than 45,200 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials. Most of the population of 2.3 million has been displaced and much of Gaza is in ruins.

A fresh bid by mediators Egypt, Qatar and the United States to end the fighting and release Israeli and foreign hostages has gained momentum this month, though no breakthrough has yet been reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said progress had been made in hostage negotiations with Hamas, but that he did not know how much longer it would take to see the results.

Gaps between Israel and Hamas over a possible Gaza ceasefire have narrowed, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials' remarks on Monday, though crucial differences have yet to be resolved.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-israel-hospital-evacuation-1.7418483
 

Five Gaza journalists killed in Israeli strike targeting armed group​

A Palestinian TV channel says five of its journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip.
They were in a Quds Today van parked outside al-Awda hospital, where the wife of one of the journalists was about to give birth, in the central Nuseirat refugee camp.
The channel posted a video of what it said was the burning vehicle with "press" signage on the back doors.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had targeted "Islamic Jihad operatives posing as journalists" and that steps were taken to avoid harming civilians.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it was "devastated by the reports".
"Journalists are civilians and must always be protected," it said.
The BBC has not been able to verify claims made by either side, with international media being prevented by Israel from entering and freely working on the ground in Gaza.
Quds Today is affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an armed group that took part in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. The unprecedented attack triggered the war in Gaza. The TV channel is believed to receive funding from the group.
The Israeli military named the five killed as Ibrahim Jamal Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Ali; Faisal Abdallah Muhammad Abu Qamsan; Mohammed Ayad Khamis al-Ladaa; Ayman Nihad Abd Alrahman Jadi; and Fadi Ihab Muhammad Ramadan Hassouna.
It said "intelligence from multiple sources confirmed" that all were PIJ operatives, and that a list found during an operation in Gaza "explicitly identified four" of them as such.
In a statement, Quds Today said the men "were killed as they carried out their media and humanitarian duty".
As of 20 December, at least 133 Palestinian journalists have been killed during the course of the war, making it the deadliest conflict for journalists, according to the CPJ.
The press freedom organisation has called for accountability for Palestinian journalists who have been directly targeted by the Israeli military.
In a separate development, five people were reported killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza City on Wednesday.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency, and the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, also said a further 20 people were injured in the city's al-Zeitoun neighbourhood.
The Israeli military has not commented on the reported bombing.
Meanwhile the father of a two-week-old Palestinian girl has told the BBC how his baby daughter froze to death in a tent in Gaza - the third child in a week to die in similar conditions.
Mahmoud Ismail Al-Faseeh said he woke up in the severe cold to find his daughter, Sila, suffering convulsions. She was rushed to hospital but died from hypothermia, the head of paediatrics at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis told the Associated Press news agency.
The family was sheltering in al-Mawasi area on Gaza's coast, a strip of land designated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a humanitarian zone but which has been hit by air strikes.
Ahmed al-Farra, the head of paediatrics, said two other babies - one three days old and the other a month old - had been brought in over the past 48 hours after dying from hypothermia.
Hopes of progress towards a ceasefire in recent days have begun to recede, with Hamas and Israel blaming each other.
Hamas accused the Israeli government of imposing "new conditions" that it said were delaying the agreement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the group was reneging on understandings that had already been reached about a possible ceasefire.
The latest statements mark a notable change of tone on both sides following optimistic signals.
The Israeli military launched air strikes and a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to last year's Hamas attack. About 1,200 people were killed in the attack and another 251 taken back to Gaza as hostages.
More than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's offensive, Gaza's health ministry says. Almost two million people - 90% of the population - have been displaced, according to the UN.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg57wrgl7o
 

Israel forcibly evacuates Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza​

One of northern Gaza's last functioning hospitals has been forcibly evacuated by the Israeli military, medics say, after dozens of people were reportedly killed in Israeli air strikes targeting the area around the healthcare facility.
Eid Sabbah, head of the nursing department at Kamal Adwan hospital, told the BBC that at about 07:00 on Friday, the military gave the administration 15 minutes to evacuate patients and staff into its courtyard.
Israeli troops subsequently entered the hospital and were now currently removing the patients that remain, Dr Sabbah said.
The Israeli military said it was "unaware" of strikes in the area and was looking into the reports of medics being killed.

"It's dangerous because there are patients in the ICU department in a coma and in need of ventilation machines and moving them will put them in danger," Dr Sabbah said.
"If the army intends to continue removing these patients, they will need specialised vehicles."
Currently no injuries have been reported during the evacuation.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have not yet commented on the evacuation, but earlier in the week, an Israeli official said that they intended to relocate those at Kamal Adwan hospital to the nearby Indonesian hospital that was itself evacuated by the Israeli military on Tuesday.
It comes after the director of Kamal Adwan hospital said that approximately 50 people had been killed, including five medical staff, in a series of Israeli air strikes targeting the vicinity of the hospital.
The statement from Dr Hussam Abu Safiya said a building opposite the hospital was targeted by Israeli warplanes, leading to the death of a paediatrician and a lab technician, as well as their families.
He said a third staff member who worked as a maintenance technician was targeted and killed as he rushed to the scene of the first strike.
Two of the hospital's paramedics were 500m (1,640ft) away from the hospital when they were targeted and killed by another strike, the statement continued, with their bodies remaining in the street with no-one able to reach them.
On Friday morning, the Israeli military stated that it was "unaware of strikes in the area of Kamal Adwan hospital" and was looking into the reports that staff had been killed.
Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia has been under a tightening Israeli blockade imposed on parts of northern Gaza since October, when the military said it had launched an offensive to stop Hamas from regrouping there.
The UN has said the area is under a "near-total siege" as the Israeli military heavy restricts access of aid deliveries to an area where an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people remain.
In recent days, the hospital's administrators have issued desperate pleas appealing to be protected, as they say the facility has become regularly the target of Israeli shelling and explosives.
Oxfam said that attempts by aid agencies to deliver supplies to the area since October had been unsuccessful because of "deliberate delays and systematic obstructions" by the Israeli military.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx26v70n5z4o
 
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