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Israel’s war against Gaza: List of key events, day 89 | Israel’s war against Gaza News


EXPLAINER

A drone strike in Lebanon killed a senior Hamas official, Saleh al-Arouri: here are the latest updates.

This is how things stand on Wednesday, January 3, 2024:

Latest updates:

  • The Israeli army has launched attacks against Syria and Lebanon. He announced the x on Tuesday that attacked Syrian military infrastructure and Hezbollah’s “terrorist infrastructure.”
  • A drone strike hit a Hamas office in Dahiyeh, Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut, killing six people, including senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri, on Tuesday, Lebanon’s state news agency reported.
  • The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) published in x that on Tuesday night, “the Iran-backed Houthis fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen toward the southern Red Sea.”
  • While several commercial ships reported impact on surrounding waters, none reported damage.
  • The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting to discuss peace and security in the face of Houthi attacks in the Red Sea at 3:00 p.m. New York time [20:00 GMT] On Wednesday.

Human impact and struggle:

  • The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since the outbreak of violence on October 7 is now 22,185, Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday. At least 57,000 people have been injured.
  • The UN humanitarian affairs agency, OCHA, reported more demolitions of Palestinian structures. The latest destruction took place on Tuesday in the At-Tur neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.

Diplomacy:

  • Israel has not officially responded to al-Arouri’s murder, but Netanyahu adviser Mark Regev told US media MSNBC that Israel takes no responsibility for this attack.
  • And he added: “Whoever did it, it must be clear: this is not an attack on the Lebanese state.”
  • “We need to avoid conflict between Israel and Lebanon,” Nicolas de Riviere, current president of the UN Security Council and French envoy to the UN, told Al Jazeera.
  • US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller rejected statements by Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir on the resettlement of Palestinians out of Gaza.
  • “Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land,” said a statement released Tuesday.
  • Israel is not “another star on the American flag,” Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir said after the US State Department issued the statement.
  • UN humanitarian agency OCHA’s Gaza team leader Gemma Connell condemned the Israeli attack on the Red Crescent-run El Amal municipal hospital in Khan Younis, which killed at least five people, including a five day old child.
  • He said “there is no safe space in Gaza and the world should be ashamed.”
  • WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus echoed Connell’s sentiments about the attack. “Today’s bombings are excessive,” he said.
  • In a statement released on Tuesday, Malaysia backed South Africa’s appeal to the International Court of Justice against Israel.
  • The court hearings are scheduled for January 11 and 12 in The Hague.

Raids in the West Bank

  • Israel continues its incursions in several areas of the occupied West Bank.
  • Israeli military vehicles are infiltrating the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem and bulldozers are destroying infrastructure, Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut reported from occupied East Jerusalem.
  • They are also surrounding the Tulkarem governorate hospital and preventing the Al Jazeera Arabic team from covering the raid.
  • There is another Israeli incursion into Nablus, where fierce clashes have been reported. In Qalqilya, the army is arresting several Palestinians, Salhut reported.
  • Since October 7, 324 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, Salhut reported.



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