Here’s how issues stand on Tuesday, February 6, 2024:
Humanitarian disaster in Gaza
- At least 27,478 individuals have been killed and 66,835 wounded in Israeli assaults on Gaza since October 7.
- A convoy of vans ready to deliver meals into the Gaza Strip was hit by Israeli hearth on Monday, based on UNRWA director Thomas White. There have been no casualties however items have been broken.
- The Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City obtained a “surge of injured people” after the “rapid deterioration” of al-Shifa Hospital, based on the World Health Organization (WHO).
- Some 6,000 persons are additionally ready to be evacuated from the Strip for essential medical care, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says.
- Around 8,000 individuals sheltering in al-Amal Hospital have been capable of go away after two weeks of siege, based on the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
- OCHA says 66 % of deliberate humanitarian missions to distribute meals and water and to supply hospital help have been denied by Israeli authorities in January. Meanwhile, Jordanian and Dutch troops collectively airdropped support provides into Gaza, in addition to medical provides.
Regional tensions and diplomacy
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting the Middle East to push for a truce between Israel and Hamas in addition to the discharge of captives in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
- A Barbados-flagged, UK-owned cargo ship was attacked by a drone within the Red Sea, 57km (round 35 miles) west of the Yemeni metropolis of Hodeidah. Yemen’s Houthis have been attacking cargo ships within the Red Sea since November in protest at Israel’s struggle on Gaza.
- The UN has appointed an impartial panel to research its support company for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, following accusations that its employees have been concerned in Hamas’s October 7 assaults in southern Israel, and the next reduce to funding from predominant donors just like the United States and Germany.
- China and Russia representatives at a UN Security Council assembly stated the US is escalating tensions and had impinged on different international locations’ sovereignty by finishing up air strikes in Syria and Iraq over the weekend. The strikes have been in response to the killing of US troops in Jordan final week however the US has admitted it didn’t give Iraq prior discover of strikes.
- Amir Ohana, speaker of the Knesset, met with UN nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan on Monday and stated Israel’s aim in Gaza was the “complete defeat of Hamas”. Ohana additionally stated that “the Iranian-led axis of evil must feel the resolve of the free world in the shape of a diplomatic and military iron curtain”, referring to rising tensions in Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.
Occupied West Bank
- Israel has been accused of withholding the physique of a 14-year-old Palestinian boy, killed by Israeli forces within the occupied West Bank on Monday, from his family. Defence for Children International, a civil society organisation, stated the motion violates worldwide legislation.
- Israeli forces have arrested a minor from the village of Aqqa and two younger brothers from the village of Asfi, each within the hamlet of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron within the occupied West Bank, the Wafa information company experiences. Raids have been reported in 5 different areas of the West Bank up to now few days.
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