Clockwise from left: People inspect the rubble of a building where displaced Palestinian Jabalieh family were sheltering after it was hit by Israeli bombardment in Rafah on January 3, 2024; Smoke billows during Israeli bombardment on Khan Yunis from Rafah on January 3, 2024; an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) flies over Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 3, 2024. (Photos by AFP)
Doha, Qatar: Atleast 14 people were killed, with the youngest victim being five-year-old, and many injured in an Israeli bombing of a house in Khan Younis.
There was constant overnight bombardment focusing on areas near al-Mawasi evacuation zone, an area where the Israeli military has instructed people to shelter.
Since the strike hit near al-Mawasi evacuation zone, all the rubble and debris fell on people inside their tents, injuring dozens.
There are also reports that more people have been killed in other parts of Khan Younis and central Gaza, with the southern part of Deir el-Balah coming under heavy fire.
Meanwhile Human Rights Monitor has called for revealing fate of hundreds of Palestinians detained from Gaza.
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[7:00 pm Doha Time] UN data shows disease spread in Gaza
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, citing World Health Organization (WHO) data, says on X that 1.9 million people in Gaza face an “alarming” spread of disease.
Some key points from the WHO data:
- There are 180,000 people in Gaza with upper respiratory infections.
- More than 136,000 cases of diarrhoea have been reported, half of them in children under five.
- More than 55,000 people have lice or scabies.
- More than 5,000 people have contracted chickenpox.
Palestinian children walk on a muddy path past tents at a makeshift camp housing displaced Palestinians, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo by AFP
[5:10pm Doha Time] Jabalia refugee camp flooded
Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif reports that the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza is completely flooded, due to the heavy rains and lack of working sewage systems.
In one playground of a school shelter, one boy pushes his brother’s wheelchair in the flooded streets, with water reaching up to their knees.
“There are fears that diseases and infections will spread,” al-Sharif said, adding that municipalities are not functioning due to being previously targeted by Israeli forces.
[4:31pm Doha Time] Palestinian death toll rises to 22,438
Over the past 90 days, a total of 22,438 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said.
At least 57,614 others have been wounded, the majority of them women and children.
Some 125 Palestinians were killed and 318 wounded in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.
About 7,000 others are missing and are presumed dead under the rubble of their homes.
[2:39pm Doha Time] Gaza’s mayor issues urgent global appeal for fuel supplies
Gaza’s Mayor Yahya al-Sarraj has issued an urgent appeal “to all international institutions and free people in the world to provide sufficient and large quantities of fuel, and to provide the necessary support mechanisms to provide water, sanitation and hygiene services to serve all residents of the Gaza Strip”.
Al-Sarraj added in a video address that water supplies have been significantly reduced and that drinking water is “almost non-existent”.
“The sanitation service is not available and large quantities of untreated water accumulate in roads, shelters and hospitals, and we cannot provide cleaning and waste collection,” al-Sarraj said.
[1:29 pm Doha Time] Qatar strongly condemns Israeli Ministers' calls for displacing Palestinians from Gaza
The State of Qatar condemned in the strongest terms the statements of the Ministers of Finance and National Security in the Israeli occupation government regarding the forced displacement of the population of Gaza, the reoccupation of the Gaza Strip and the construction of settlements. Read more
[1:28 pm Doha Time] One killed in Israeli shelling of hospital and Red Crescent building in Khan Younis
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says that “intense and continuous” shelling by Israeli forces is taking place around its headquarters and al-Amal Hospital.
One Palestinian was killed as a result and several others were wounded, the PRCS said.
[12:18 pm Doha Time] Palestinian Red Crescent says headquarters hit
The aid organisation says at least seven people have been injured in a strike that hit the fifth floor of its headquarters in Khan Younis.
Another strike on a neighbouring home caused further damage to the facility and the nearby al-Amal hospital, it says.
[11:45am Doha Time] In Photos
Relatives mourn over the bodies of the Salah and Abu Hatab families, killed when the tent where they were sheltering was hit by Israeli bombardment, at the morgue of the Nasser medical centre in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 4, 2024. Photos by AFP
[11am Doha Time] Human Rights Monitor calls for revealing fate of Palestinians detained from Gaza
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor called on the international community to put pressure on the Israeli entity to immediately stop all crimes committed against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, especially arbitrary arrests, illegal detention, and enforced disappearance of hundreds of Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip, and the disclosure of their fate and conditions of detention. Read more
[10am Doha Time] Palestinian martyred, several arrested in West Bank
A Palestinian was martyred Thursday after the Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Tammun, south of Tubas in the occupied West Bank.
Medical sources reported that the Palestinian, aged 29, succumbed to critical gunshot wound sustained when the Israeli broke into Tammun at dawn Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces raided several cities, towns and camps across the occupied West Bank and arrested nine Palestinians in Ramallah, Tammun, Husan, Shuweika, Masafer Yatta and Qusin.
[9am Doha Time] Europe condemns Israeli calls for displacing Palestinians
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell denounced the inflammatory statements of two Israeli ministers calling for the displacement of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip.
"I strongly condemn the inflammatory and irresponsible statements by Israeli ministers slandering the Palestinian population of Gaza and calling for a plan for their emigration," Borrell said on social media, adding that "forced displacements are strictly prohibited as a grave violation of IHL international humanitarian law (IHL)".
Earlier, the US, France, and Germany condemned the Israeli ministers' statements calling for the displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
