EXPLAINER
At the very least 18 individuals have been killed in an Israeli air assault in Gaza’s Khan Younis metropolis.
Right here’s how issues stand on Saturday, January 6, 2024:
Newest updates:
- An Israeli air assault has killed a minimum of 18 Palestinians after it focused a home within the southern Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis in a single day.
- Three individuals have been killed and several other wounded in an Israeli assault on a home in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah metropolis within the central space of the Palestinian territory.
- Fierce clashes have been reported within the occupied West Financial institution’s Nablus metropolis and Shu’fats refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem amid Israeli army raids.
- Israel’s military says it hit Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on Friday with air strikes, tank hearth and artillery shelling.
Human affect
- At the very least 22,600 individuals have been killed and 57,910 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised demise toll from the October 7 assault on Israel stands at 1,139.
- The Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza has been flooded as heavy rain pours down and municipality providers stay shuttered. Sewage water is seeping into the camp, which shelters 1000’s of individuals, inflicting fears of illness spreading.
- The United Nations has warned that Gaza has develop into “uninhabitable” after three months of preventing.
Diplomacy
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Turkey the place he’s anticipated to debate the Gaza struggle with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Blinken will even go to a number of different Center East nations earlier than heading to Israel and the occupied West Financial institution subsequent week.
- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has warned that Lebanon may very well be “uncovered” if the armed group didn’t reply to the killing of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut.
- Households of six people captured through the October 7 Hamas assault arrived in Qatar to debate efforts for the discharge of the remaining captives with the nation’s prime minister.
- Rwanda, Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have categorically denied partaking in any negotiations with Israel concerning the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to their respective international locations.
