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A drone strike in Lebanon killed senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri – listed below are the most recent updates.
Right here’s how issues stand on Wednesday, January 3, 2024:
Newest updates:
- The Israeli military has launched assaults on Syria and Lebanon. It introduced on X on Tuesday that it attacked Syrian navy infrastructure and Hezbollah “terrorist infrastructure”.
- A drone strike hit a Hamas workplace in Beirut’s Hezbollah stronghold Dahiyeh, killing six folks together with senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday, Lebanon’s state information company reported.
- The US Central Command (CENTCOM) posted on X that on Tuesday evening, “Iranian-backed Houthis fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen into the Southern Crimson Sea.”
- Whereas a number of industrial ships reported their impression on surrounding waters, none reported injury.
- The United Nations Safety Council will maintain an emergency assembly to debate peace and safety relating to the Houthi assaults within the Crimson Sea at 3pm New York time [20:00 GMT] on Wednesday.
#FrPrez | The Safety Council will maintain a gathering on the upkeep of worldwide peace and safety, specifically on the Houthi assaults within the Crimson Sea.
🗓️ Wednesday, 3 January – 3PM
📺 UNWebTV https://t.co/Lv2W6r5o1w pic.twitter.com/cxZeSZraco— La France à l’ONU 🇫🇷🇺🇳 (@franceonu) January 2, 2024
Human impression and combating:
- The variety of Palestinians in Gaza killed because the outbreak of violence on October 7 is now 22,185, mentioned Gaza’s well being ministry on Tuesday. Not less than 57, 000 have been injured.
- UN humanitarian affairs company OCHA reported extra demolitions of Palestinian constructions. The newest destruction befell on Tuesday within the At-Tur neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem.
Demolition reported as we speak in At Tur, #EastJerusalem, #WestBank, occupied #Palestinian territory
Statistics on demolition and displacement: https://t.co/hG9VUlAUXf pic.twitter.com/9pIrgzbmi3
— OCHA oPt (Palestine) (@ochaopt) January 2, 2024
Diplomacy:
- Israel has not formally responded to the killing of al-Arouri however Netanyahu’s adviser Mark Regev, instructed the US outlet MSNBC that Israel doesn’t take duty for this assault.
- He added, “Whoever did it, it should be clear: this was not an assault on the Lebanese state.”
- “We have to keep away from battle between Israel and Lebanon,” Nicolas de Riviere, the present UN Safety Council president and French UN envoy, has instructed Al Jazeera.
- US State Division spokesperson Matthew Miller rejected statements from Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir concerning the resettlement of Palestinians exterior of Gaza.
- “Gaza is Palestinian land and can stay Palestinian land,” mentioned a statement printed on Tuesday.
- Israel shouldn’t be “one other star on the American flag”, mentioned Israeli Nationwide Safety Minister Ben-Gvir after the US State Division issued the assertion.
- Gaza group chief of the UN humanitarian company OCHA, Gemma Connell, condemned the Israeli assault on the Crimson Crescent-run El Amal Metropolis Hospital in Khan Younis, which killed at the very least 5 folks, together with a five-day-old baby.
- She mentioned that “there is no such thing as a secure house in Gaza, and the world ought to be ashamed”.
- WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus echoed Connell’s sentiments concerning the bombing. “Right now’s bombings are unconscionable,” he mentioned.
- In an announcement launched on Tuesday, Malaysia endorsed South Africa’s attraction to the Worldwide Court docket of Justice in opposition to Israel.
- The courtroom hearings are scheduled for January 11 and 12 at The Hague.
Raids within the West Financial institution
- Israel continues its raids in a number of areas of the occupied West Financial institution.
- Israeli navy autos 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’re additionally surrounding the Tulkarem governorate hospital and stopping the group at Al Jazeera Arabic from masking the raid.
- There’s one other Israeli raid on Nablus, the place fierce clashes have been reported. In Qalqilya, the military is arresting a number of Palestinians, Salhut reported.
- Since October 7, 324 Palestinians have been killed within the occupied West Financial institution, Salhut reported.
