Israel’s struggle on Gaza: List of key occasions, day 124 | Israel War on Gaza News | USAEMALL.com

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Efforts for a truce deal proceed amid worsening humanitarian state of affairs in Gaza.

Here’s how issues stand on Wednesday, February 7, 2024:

Humanitarian disaster in Gaza

• At least 107 Palestinians had been killed and 143 others had been injured between Monday and Tuesday, in line with Gaza’s Ministry of Health. This takes the loss of life toll of Palestinians in Gaza to 27,585 as of Tuesday.
• Local sources reported on Tuesday that six civilians had been killed in Israeli shelling that focused their car within the Khirbat al-Adas neighbourhood in Rafah metropolis, within the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian information company Wafa reported.
• The Palestine Red Crescent Society stated on Tuesday that al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, which was beneath Israeli siege for 2 weeks, was subjected to violent bombardment and steady gunfire, which led to shrapnel flying into the hospital.
• The United Nations humanitarian company OCHA reported that beginning January, humanitarian help missions’ potential to entry folks in dire want in Gaza worsened. Of the 61 deliberate missions to the north of Gaza, 10 had been facilitated by Israel and 34 had been denied entry.
• As of Saturday, UNRWA estimates that about 75 p.c of Gaza’s inhabitants of two.3 million, greater than half of them youngsters, are displaced.

Regional tensions and diplomacy

• Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued an announcement saying it won’t have diplomatic relations with Israel except an unbiased Palestinian state is recognised on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

• The US Central Command (CENTCOM) posted on X that the Houthis fired six antiship ballistic missiles in the direction of the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. No one was injured and solely minor harm was reported.
• The US House of Representatives has rejected a Republican-led invoice to supply $17.6bn in help to Israel as a wider bipartisan invoice throughout a vote on Tuesday.
• On Tuesday, Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani stated Hamas has given a “generally positive” response to a proposed truce cope with Israel, because the Palestinian group reiterated its demand for an finish to the Israeli assault on Gaza.
• US President Joe Biden advised reporters on Tuesday that Hamas’s response to a proposed Gaza truce framework “seems to be a little over the top” however that negotiations would go on.
• More than 20 European Parliament members and politicians wrote to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on Tuesday, saying Israel’s participation within the Eurovision Song Contest “whitewashes a regime that is carrying out ethnic cleansing in Palestine and committing war crimes and genocide”.
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel to dealer what the State Department known as, an “enduring end” to the struggle on Gaza. He earlier visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt on his fifth regional tour since October final 12 months.

Occupied West Bank

• An Israeli convoy of navy autos and bulldozers stormed the town of Jenin within the occupied West Bank on Tuesday evening.
• The Israeli navy additionally stormed the town of Tulkarem, imposing a siege on the Nur Shams camp whereas bulldozers have destroyed close by infrastructure.
• Israeli forces on Tuesday shot lifeless 18-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud Soud Titi on the Beit Furik checkpoint, east of Nablus, after he allegedly tried a stabbing assault, Wafa reported.
• Israeli authorities on Tuesday demolished a retaining wall within the city of Bani Naim, east of Hebron, Wafa reported.