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The bombardment of Gaza and raids on the West Financial institution have intensified – right here is the most recent.
Right here’s how issues stand on Tuesday, January 2, 2024:
Newest updates
- Israel’s Nationwide Safety Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi has stated that Israel won’t boycott the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice case launched by South Africa.
- The Israeli Supreme Courtroom has struck down a extremely disputed legislation handed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities in July, designed to roll again the facility of the nation’s excessive courtroom.
- Authorities in Gaza have issued an inventory of 127 Egyptian and Omani nationals who can journey by means of the Rafah crossing with Egypt as we speak at 7am native time (05:00 GMT).
- The Gaza well being ministry has revealed an inventory of 19 individuals who have been accredited for medical evacuation from Gaza by means of the Rafah crossing with Egypt as we speak. These embody youngsters and sufferers with extreme sicknesses, together with most cancers.
- UN company OCHA reported the primary case of the demolition of Palestinian property in 2024, in al-Maniya in Bethlehem. In 2023, 1,119 buildings have been demolished within the West Financial institution.
Demolitions reported as we speak, 1 January 2024, in Al Maniya, #Bethlehem, #WestBank, occupied #Palestinian territory.
2023 ended with 1,119 buildings demolished and a couple of,210 folks displaced, in consequence, within the #WestBank.
All statistics right here: https://t.co/hG9VUlAUXf pic.twitter.com/Q3Wx3ptphN
— OCHA oPt (Palestine) (@ochaopt) January 1, 2024
- The Tony Blair Institute for World Change has denied an Israeli information report claiming that Blair would take the lead in resettling refugees from Gaza in Arab and different nations.
- “No such dialogue has taken place. Nor would Tony Blair have such a dialogue, the concept is unsuitable in precept. Gazans ought to have the ability to keep and stay in Gaza,” the institute wrote on X.
The Channel 12 report in Israel linking Tony Blair to a dialogue a couple of ‘function’ within the ‘voluntary resettlement of Gazans’ in Arab and different nations is a lie. The story was revealed with none contact with Tony Blair or his staff. No such dialogue has taken place. Nor would… https://t.co/DEHRykbb0w
— Tony Blair Institute for World Change (@InstituteGC) January 1, 2024
Human impression and combating
- Abdul Rahman al-Bahsh, 23, who was in jail since Might 2022, has been introduced useless by the Israeli jail service, Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim reported, from Bethlehem within the occupied West Financial institution.
- He’s the seventh prisoner to die in an Israeli jail because the outbreak of violence on October 7.
- Israeli air strikes have reportedly hit a number of neighbourhoods in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
- The Israeli military is reportedly shelling the Maghazi refugee camp and the Rafah shoreline.
- On Monday, a minimum of 21 folks have been killed and dozens have been injured because of the bombardment within the Gaza Strip, Palestinian information company Wafa reported.
- At the very least 15 of those deaths have been within the Magazhi refugee camp. Six folks have been killed in Jabalia’s Bir al-Naja space, added Wafa.
- The Syrian state information company (SANA) has reported that Israel carried out air strikes early on Tuesday morning, inflicting some materials harm alongside the outskirts of Damascus metropolis.
- Wafa additionally reported that the Jerusalem Governorate revealed an annual report, detailing violations towards the residents of Jerusalem by the Israeli authorities and navy.
- In line with the report, in 2023, 51 residents have been killed and about 3,081 have been arrested. The report stated 55,158 settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque “with heavy safety from closely armed particular occupation forces”.
Raids within the West Financial institution
- The Israeli navy has prevented ambulances and medical personnel from reaching a Palestinian man wounded throughout a raid within the metropolis of Qalqilya, Al Jazeera correspondent Hamdah Salhut experiences.
- Medical personnel have been reportedly shot at whereas they tried to achieve the injured Palestinian in Qalqilya, the place clashes between Palestinians and Israeli troopers broke out in the course of the raid.
- Wafa experiences that on Monday night, the Israeli forces seized a home and turned its roof into an observational level in Bethlehem’s city of al-Khader.