Dozens of Palestinians go away besieged Nasser Hospital in southern metropolis of Khan Younis after Israeli forces order an evacuation.
Here’s how issues stand on Thursday, February 15, 2024:
Humanitarian disaster in Gaza
- Dozens of Palestinians have been seen leaving the besieged Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s southern metropolis of Khan Younis after Israeli forces ordered the evacuation of the medical centre, however well being officers mentioned 1000’s, together with critically unwell sufferers, stay inside.
- Heavy tank and machine gun fireplace have been reported because the Israeli military entered the hospital.
- The Israeli army described the assault as “precise and limited”, including it was based mostly on “credible information” that Hamas fighters have been hiding within the facility and holding captives there. A spokesperson for Hamas denied the allegations, calling them “lies”. Israel has made comparable claims previously however has not supplied proof.
- Al Jazeera correspondents reported that at the very least 11 folks have been killed in an intense bombardment on the Nuseirat refugee camp within the central a part of the Gaza Strip.
Regional tensions and diplomacy
- United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths warned that the 1.4 million Palestinians who’ve sought shelter in Rafah could be compelled into Egypt if Israel launches its deliberate army operation in opposition to the border city.
- “The possibility of a military operation in Rafah with the possibility of the crossing closing down, with the possibility of spillover, … a sort of Egyptian nightmare, … is one that is right before our eyes,” Griffiths mentioned.
- Separately, the United States army’s Central Command, or CENTCOM, mentioned its forces have seized superior standard weapons and different deadly assist from Iran that have been sure for Houthi-held areas of Yemen on a vessel within the Arabian Sea on January 28.
- In Lebanon, Israeli warplanes carried out a wave of at the very least 12 strikes within the Wadi Saluki space of Lebanon, in response to an Israeli army assertion posted on social media.
Occupied West Bank
- Israel arrested at the very least 20 Palestinians within the West Bank, together with a toddler and a former prisoner, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society mentioned.
- The arrests occurred in Tulkarem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, Jenin and Jerusalem. The whole variety of arrests since October 7 now stands at 7,040.
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