Right here’s how issues stand on Tuesday, February 6, 2024:
Humanitarian disaster in Gaza
- At the least 27,478 folks have been killed and 66,835 wounded in Israeli assaults on Gaza since October 7.
- A convoy of vehicles ready to carry 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 had been broken.
- The Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza Metropolis obtained a “surge of injured folks” after the “fast deterioration” of al-Shifa Hospital, based on the World Well being Group (WHO).
- Some 6,000 individuals are additionally ready to be evacuated from the Strip for essential medical care, the United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says.
- Round 8,000 folks sheltering in al-Amal Hospital had been in a position to go away after two weeks of siege, based on the Palestinian Crimson Crescent Society (PRCS).
- OCHA says 66 % of deliberate humanitarian missions to distribute meals and water and to supply hospital help had been denied by Israeli authorities in January. In the meantime, Jordanian and Dutch troops collectively airdropped assist provides into Gaza, in addition to medical provides.
Regional tensions and diplomacy
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting the Center 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 Crimson Sea, 57km (round 35 miles) west of the Yemeni metropolis of Hodeidah. Yemen’s Houthis have been attacking cargo ships within the Crimson Sea since November in protest at Israel’s warfare on Gaza.
- The UN has appointed an impartial panel to analyze its assist company for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, following accusations that its employees had been concerned in Hamas’s October 7 assaults in southern Israel, and the following minimize to funding from primary donors like the USA and Germany.
- China and Russia representatives at a UN Safety Council assembly stated the US is escalating tensions and had impinged on different nations’ sovereignty by finishing up air strikes in Syria and Iraq over the weekend. The strikes had 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 objective in Gaza was the “full defeat of Hamas”. Ohana additionally stated that “the Iranian-led axis of evil should really feel the resolve of the free world within the form of a diplomatic and army iron curtain”, referring to rising tensions in Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.
Occupied West Financial institution
- Israel has been accused of withholding the physique of a 14-year-old Palestinian boy, killed by Israeli forces within the occupied West Financial institution on Monday, from his family members. Defence for Youngsters Worldwide, 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 Financial institution, the Wafa information company stories. Raids have been reported in 5 different areas of the West Financial institution up to now few days.