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Gaza’s demise toll has crossed 20,000 whereas new evacuation orders have been introduced for Khan Younis – listed below are main updates.

Here’s how issues stand on Thursday, December 21, 2023:

The newest developments

• Israel ordered the “immediate evacuation” of about 20 p.c of areas in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Wednesday, based on the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA).
• Cuts in the primary fibre routes in Khan Younis have shut down all telecommunications providers in Gaza, PalTel introduced on Wednesday night time.
• Palestinian prisoner Farouk al-Khatib was launched late on Wednesday after three months in administrative detention with out cost or trial. He is receiving medical care on the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah owing to severe well being issues.
• A Human Rights Watch report on Wednesday discovered that Meta is systematically censoring content material about Palestine on Facebook and Instagram by means of measures together with content material removing, incapability to have interaction with content material, and suspension or deletion of accounts.
• Over the early hours of Wednesday, Israeli forces destroyed 56 buildings in jap Gaza, based on the UN.

Human influence and combating

• At least 20,000 folks in Gaza have been killed, the enclave’s authorities media workplace introduced on Wednesday.
• Israel’s navy introduced on Thursday that three of its troopers have been killed whereas combating in northern Gaza. Since October 7, no less than 134 Israeli troopers have been killed and greater than 740 wounded, UN OCHA reported on Wednesday, citing the navy.
• Israel has carried out night time raids in no less than 14 completely different cities and villages throughout the occupied West Bank, together with ones close to Jenin, Hebron, and Ramallah, based on Al Jazeera Arabic and Wafa.
• Israeli forces “summarily killed” 11 males in Gaza in entrance of their households “which raises alarm about the possible commission of a war crime”, UN OCHA stated in its scenario report on Wednesday.
• On Wednesday, a rocket was fired at al-Assad Airbase in Iraq, which hosts the United States and different worldwide forces, reported the US navy’s Central Command.
• Nearly two-thirds of jobs have been misplaced within the Gaza Strip, the International Labour Organization and the Palestinian Statistics Office introduced on Wednesday.

Diplomacy

• The head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, arrived in Egypt on Wednesday for discussions about one other potential truce with Israel.
• The UN Security Council is predicted to vote on an Israel-Gaza ceasefire decision on Thursday, reported Reuters.
• UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese reiterated in a submit on X on Wednesday that hospitals and medical personnel have to be protected, and stated that Israeli assaults on Gaza’s well being system have taken “the most sadistic forms”.
• Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated on Wednesday that the US desires Israel to enter low-intensity combating the place there are extra focused operations towards Hamas.
• Israel and Cyprus agreed on Wednesday to pursue methods to arrange a maritime assist hall to Gaza, reported Reuters.
• Australia is to ship up “up to six additional” troops, however no warships, to assist the US-led Red Sea safety operation, Australia’s defence minister stated on Wednesday.