Israeli forces raid Gaza Strip hospital
Israeli forces have raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, considered one of solely three medical services on the northern fringe of the Gaza Strip, ordering dozens of sufferers and a whole lot of others to evacuate the compound, in response to officers.
The Palestinian well being ministry stated contact with workers inside the power, which has been underneath heavy strain from Israeli forces for weeks, had been misplaced.
Munir Al-Bursh, director of the well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, stated in an announcement:
The occupation forces are contained in the hospital now and they’re burning it.
Medics and the civil emergency service additionally reported separate incidents throughout Gaza through which Israeli strikes killed at the least 25 folks. A kind of strikes on a home in Gaza Metropolis killed 15 folks.
The Israeli navy stated it had made efforts to mitigate hurt to civilians and had “facilitated the safe evacuation of civilians, sufferers and medical personnel previous to the operation” however gave no particulars.
It stated in an announcement:
Kamal Adwan Hospital serves as a Hamas terrorist stronghold in northern Gaza, from which terrorists have been working all through the warfare.
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Julian Borger
Houthi rebels in Yemen declare to have retaliated in opposition to Israeli airstrikes on Sana’a’s airport early on Friday with a missile geared toward Israel’s Ben Gurion airport and a drone assault on Tel Aviv, write the Guardian’s senior worldwide correspondent Julian Borger and reporter Malak A Tantesh in Gaza.
The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) stated their defences intercepted the ballistic missile earlier than it reached Israeli airspace, although residents within the centre of the nation have been ordered into shelters for concern of falling particles. There have been no studies in Israel of hostile drones over Tel Aviv.
It was the most recent in a sequence of tit-for-tat exchanges. Thursday’s Israeli airstrikes have been in retaliation for a Houthi missile and drone launch in opposition to Israel on Wednesday. The Houthis started mounting assaults geared toward Israel and Israeli delivery at first of the Gaza warfare in October 2023, saying they have been performing in solidarity with Palestinians.
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Israeli forces raid Gaza Strip hospital
Israeli forces have raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, considered one of solely three medical services on the northern fringe of the Gaza Strip, ordering dozens of sufferers and a whole lot of others to evacuate the compound, in response to officers.
The Palestinian well being ministry stated contact with workers inside the power, which has been underneath heavy strain from Israeli forces for weeks, had been misplaced.
Munir Al-Bursh, director of the well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, stated in an announcement:
The occupation forces are contained in the hospital now and they’re burning it.
Medics and the civil emergency service additionally reported separate incidents throughout Gaza through which Israeli strikes killed at the least 25 folks. A kind of strikes on a home in Gaza Metropolis killed 15 folks.
The Israeli navy stated it had made efforts to mitigate hurt to civilians and had “facilitated the safe evacuation of civilians, sufferers and medical personnel previous to the operation” however gave no particulars.
It stated in an announcement:
Kamal Adwan Hospital serves as a Hamas terrorist stronghold in northern Gaza, from which terrorists have been working all through the warfare.
Dying toll from Israeli airstrikes on Gaza reaches 45,436, says well being ministry
A minimum of 45,436 Palestinian folks have been killed and 108,038 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza well being ministry stated in an announcement on Friday.
Of these, 37 Palestinians have been killed and 98 injured within the newest 24-hour reporting interval, the ministry stated.
Gaza’s well being ministry has stated up to now that hundreds of different lifeless individuals are almost certainly misplaced within the rubble of the territory.
Bethan McKernan
Bethan McKernan is Jerusalem correspondent for the Guardian
5 Palestinian journalists have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on their car in central Gaza, their employer has stated.
Faisal Abu al-Qumsan, Ayman al-Jadi, Ibrahim al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna and Mohammed al-Lada’a have been sleeping of their broadcasting truck, marked as press, when it was focused in a direct strike by the Israeli navy, witnesses informed Palestinian media. One other 32 folks have been killed in different Israeli pre-dawn strikes throughout the territory, the native well being ministry stated.
The 5 males, who labored at Al-Quds At the moment, a tv channel affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a smaller militant group that fights alongside Hamas, have been buried on Thursday morning.
Israel’s navy stated in an announcement it had carried out “a exact strike on a car with an Islamic Jihad terrorist cell inside within the space of Nuseirat … Previous to the strike, quite a few steps have been taken to mitigate the chance of harming civilians.”
An estimated 730,000 folks residing in tents in camps for the displaced in northwest Syria are experiencing dire situations this winter together with from flooding, the UN humanitarian workplace has stated.
The UN workplace for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) stated yesterday that greater than 200 household tents in camps in Idlib and northern Aleppo have been broken by flooding from heavy rainfall on 23 December.
“Because the begin of 2024, flooding and robust winds have broken greater than 8,800 household tents – together with practically 2,000 that have been absolutely destroyed – throughout 260 camps,” OCHA stated.
In early December, the UN stated about 1.1 million folks had been displaced since Syrian rebels launched the offensive that ousted former president Bashar al-Assad. Amongst these displaced have been greater than 100,000 individuals who have fled into Kurdish-administered areas in northern Syria amid escalating factional preventing and fears of retaliatory assaults.
As we mentioned in the opening summary, Israel struck a number of targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi motion in Yemen on Thursday, together with the worldwide airport within the capital, Sana’a. The strikes left the highest of the management tower a bombed-out shell and huge home windows within the airport constructing have been shattered, with glass littering the bottom. Regardless of the injury, flights from Sana’a airport resumed at 10:00 am (0700 GMT) on Friday, Houthi deputy transport minister Faisal al-Sayani has stated.
A Palestinian man stabbed an 83-year-old lady to dying within the Israeli metropolis of Herzliya, Israeli media reported on Friday, in what police described as a terrorist assault. Ambulance providers stated the girl was handled on the scene by paramedics and transferred in a important situation to hospital. Israeli media reported she later died of her accidents. Police stated the attacker, a former safety providers informant from the northern space of the occupied West Financial institution, was caught and arrested.
The Israeli navy reported it carried out air strikes on Friday focusing on “infrastructure” on the Syrian-Lebanese border close to the village of Janta, which it claimed was used to smuggle weapons to the armed group Hezbollah.
In an announcement, the navy stated:
Earlier at the moment, the IAF (Israeli air pressure) struck infrastructure that was used to smuggle weapons through Syria to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation in Lebanon on the Janta crossing on the Syrian-Lebanese border.
These strikes are an extra a part of the IDF’s (Israeli navy’s) effort to focus on weapons smuggling operations from Syria into Lebanon, and stop Hezbollah from re-establishing weapons smuggling routes.
The IDF will proceed to behave to take away any menace to the state of Israel in accordance with the understandings within the ceasefire settlement.
It didn’t specify whether or not the strikes have been on the Syrian or Lebanese aspect, however they got here a day after Lebanon’s military accused Israel of “violation of the ceasefire settlement by attacking Lebanese sovereignty and destroying southern cities and villages”.
The ceasefire deal that ended Israel’s assault on Lebanon came into effect on 27 November and prohibits Israel from conducting offensive navy operations in Lebanon, whereas requiring Lebanon to forestall armed teams together with Hezbollah from launching assaults on Israel. It provides Israeli troops 60 days to withdraw from south Lebanon.
Individually, Israeli warplanes have intensified an air offensive in Syria because the fall of the Assad regime in early December, placing navy targets and destroying total squadrons of fighters, radar and missile techniques, missile shops and far of the small Syrian navy. Israel additionally estimates it has destroyed a lot of the Syrian air pressure’s infrastructure and plane.
Israeli forces demand evacuation of workers and sufferers at Kamal Adwan hospital – report
The Israeli navy demanded that medical workers and sufferers go away the premises of Kamal Adwan hospital to make room for his or her forces to storm the power, Palestinian information company Wafa reported this morning.
Gaza’s well being ministry has stated the three predominant hospitals in northern Gaza – of which Kamal Adwan is one – are barely functioning and have been underneath repeated assault since Israel despatched tanks into Beit Lahiya and close by Beit Hanoun and Jabalia in October.
Yesterday 5 hospital workers members have been killed in an Israeli airstrike focusing on Kamal Adwan hospital, Wafa reported. About 90 sufferers are estimated to nonetheless be contained in the hospital.
Gaza’s well being ministry was quoted earlier within the week saying that Israeli bombing was focusing on all of the departments of the hospital “across the clock with out stopping”.
Right here is an extract from an Al Jazeera report printed this morning. We’ve not been in a position to independently confirm the knowledge in it but:
This morning, Israel pushed deeper into the world surrounding Kamal Adwan hospital. Israeli armoured tanks superior deeper underneath heavy cowl from quadcopter machineguns.
Explosive units had already been planted within the neighborhood of the hospital. 4 have been set off close to the northern gate, on the again entrance, inflicting injury to the compound and sparking fires in among the buildings round it.
Israeli officers known as on loudspeakers to the director of the hospital and for the injured and the sufferers to return out of the hospital inside quarter-hour. This occurred at about 7:15am [05:15 GMT]. We haven’t had any communication from the hospital since.
Houthis declare new assaults on Israel after strikes hit Yemen airport
Houthi rebels have claimed duty for the in a single day firing of a missile at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport and say they launched drones at Israel’s industrial capital, in addition to a ship within the Arabian Sea, in response to studies. Right here is a report from The Times of Israel, which we’ve not but been in a position to independently confirm:
The Houthis declare that “the missile succeeded in reaching its goal regardless of the enemy’s censorship, and the operation resulted in casualties and the cessation of navigation on the airport.”
The IDF stated the missile was efficiently downed by air defenses, and there have been no studies of impacts on the airport. Flight arrivals have been reportedly halted for half-hour.
Moreover, the Houthis declare to have carried out a drone assault on a “very important goal” within the Tel Aviv space. There have been no studies of drones reaching Israel from Yemen up to now day.
The Houthis additionally say that it focused a container ship within the Arabian Sea with a number of drones.
As we mentioned in the opening summary, a wave of Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen’s predominant airport on Thursday simply because the World Well being Group’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated he was about to board a flight there. One of many UN airplane’s crew was injured. In an replace earlier at the moment, a WHO spokesperson stated the injured air crew member, who labored for the UN humanitarian air service, suffered severe accidents however is now recovering in hospital.
Who’re the Houthis in Yemen?
The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen have been attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea for greater than a 12 months to attempt to implement a naval blockade on Israel, saying they’re performing in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel’s year-long warfare in Gaza.
The strikes on delivery by the Houthis, who’ve additionally launched missiles at Israel, have prompted retaliatory strikes by the US and Britain. Right here is an extract from our explainer on the group:
The Houthis are a Yemeni militia group named after their founder, Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, and representing the Zaidi department of Shia Islam.
They emerged within the Eighties in opposition to Saudi Arabia’s non secular affect in Yemen.
The group, which has an estimated 20,000 fighters and whose official title is Ansar Allah, runs many of the west of the nation and is in command of its Crimson Sea shoreline…
The Houthis had been gaining assist across the flip of the century from Shia Yemenis fed up with the corruption and cruelty of the longtime authoritarian president and Saudi ally, Ali Abdullah Saleh, significantly in the course of the aftermath of 9/11 and the US invasion of Iraq. Common protests and several other assassination makes an attempt compelled Saleh to resign in 2012.
In 2014 the Houthis allied with their former enemy Saleh to grab the capital, Sana’a, and overthrew the brand new western-backed president, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a 12 months later. After Hadi was compelled to flee, the exiled Yemeni authorities requested its allies in Saudi Arabia and the UAE to launch a navy marketing campaign, additionally backed by the west, to drive out the Houthis.
A catastrophic civil warfare ensued that the UN estimated led to 377,000 deaths and displaced 4 million folks by the top of 2021.
The Houthis in impact gained the warfare. An April 2022 ceasefire prompted a major decline in violence, and preventing has largely remained in abeyance regardless of the official expiry of the truce in October.
Listed here are among the newest photographs popping out of Yemen following the lethal Israeli airstrikes yesterday:
Netanyahu warns airstrikes on Yemen will proceed after WHO chief caught up in lethal assault on Sana’a airport
Welcome again to the Guardian’s dwell protection of the Center East disaster after Israel struck a number of targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi motion in Yemen on Thursday, together with the worldwide airport within the capital, Sana’a. Houthi media stated at the least six folks have been killed.
The top of the World Well being Group, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he was at Yemen’s worldwide airport when it was hit. A crew member on the airplane was injured, he stated, and at the least two folks have been reported killed on the airport. Tedros stated he had been in Yemen to barter the discharge of UN workers detained by the Houthis and assess the humanitarian state of affairs.
The Israeli navy stated that it additionally hit navy infrastructure on the ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Kanatib on Yemen’s west coast. It additionally attacked the nation’s Hezyaz and Ras Kanatib energy stations.
Afterward Thursday, the Houthis – which have declared themselves to be a part of the Iranian-led “axis of resistance” in opposition to Israel – reportedly stated they have been prepared to reply shortly to the assault and meet “escalation with escalation”.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel’s airstrikes would “proceed till the job is finished”. “We’re decided to chop this department of terrorism from the Iranian axis of evil,” he stated in a video assertion.
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The United Nations chief, António Guterres, has denounced the “escalation” in hostilities between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Israel, calling IDF strikes on targets together with on the airport in Sana’a “particularly alarming”.
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The UN safety council is because of meet on Monday over the Houthi assaults on Israel, Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon has stated.
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Israel’s navy intercepted a missile fired from Yemen within the newest assault by Houthi rebels – hours after Israeli navy bombed websites in Yemen.
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Israel’s navy has compelled dozens of sick and injured affected person to go away Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza,Al Jazeera is reporting.
