Israel-Hamas battle: List of key occasions, day 75 | Israel-Palestine battle News | USAEMALL.com

Here’s how issues stand on Wednesday, December 20, 2023:

Latest Developments

• Gaza is in its sixth consecutive day of a telecommunications blackout, aside from a partial restoration in southern Gaza on Monday, stated the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) on Tuesday.
• A protest was held in New York on Tuesday evening amid worldwide requires the discharge of imprisoned artists from the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, occupied West Bank. The Freedom Theatre has been raided, vandalised and painted with Israeli spiritual and political symbols.
• Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades shared a video to their Telegram channel on Tuesday of two male captives pleading to the Israeli authorities for help with their launch.
• On Monday, Israeli forces raided al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza and arrested, stripped, certain and interrogated individuals within the hospital, UN OCHA reported on Tuesday citing Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF).

Human affect and combating

• A pre-dawn Israeli strike on Tuesday levelled a house in Rafah, killing 27 individuals together with a 17-day-old child, reported the Associated Press information company.
• Jody Ginsberg, the president of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), advised National Public Radio (NPR) that the obvious “targeted” killings of journalists in Gaza must be investigated. The CPJ has recorded the killings of no less than 68 journalists within the area since October 7, whereas Gaza’s media workplace has put the toll at 97.
• UN Children’s Agency Executive Director Catherine Russell warned on Wednesday that many extra youngsters will die with out secure water within the coming days, and that instances of diarrhoea amongst youngsters underneath 5 have already crossed 20 occasions the month-to-month common.
• Israel raided no less than six areas throughout the occupied West Bank in a single day, together with the city of Tammun the place Israeli forces wounded a 16-year-old in reside hearth and bulldozed two houses, in accordance with the Palestinian Red Cresent and Wafa information company.
• Half of Gaza’s inhabitants is ravenous in a state of affairs of maximum or extreme starvation, whereas 90 % of individuals within the besieged enclave frequently go with out meals for a complete day, in accordance with the World Food Programme’s (WFP) regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.

Diplomacy

• Israeli President Isaac Herzog advised a gathering of ambassadors on Tuesday that his nation is prepared to comply with a brand new momentary truce with Hamas to safe the discharge of extra captives held in Gaza.
• UN Security Council member international locations are intensely negotiating over draft resolutions on the Israel-Gaza battle, additionally inflicting the vote to be postponed till no less than Wednesday morning, in accordance with Al Jazeera’s UN correspondents.
• On Tuesday, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim banned the Israeli ZIM delivery firm and “any ship en route to Israel from loading cargo at Malaysian ports”, in response to Israel’s actions towards Palestinians in Gaza.
• White House nationwide safety spokesperson John Kirby stated at a press briefing on Tuesday that “attacks on ships in the Red Sea have to stop”. The United States has introduced the institution of a brand new multinational maritime safety power in response to assaults on ships launched by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen.